The Day Funny Car's Don Gay, Jr. Nearly Died At Denver 30 Years Ago

Contents:

• THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT
• 'IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE': OPENLY GAY NHRA DRIVER PREPAR TO MAKE HISTORY
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF
• THE DAY FUNNY CAR’S DON GAY, JR. NEARLY DIED AT DENVER 30 YEARS AGO
• GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022
• HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
• THUNR'S RUDY GAY: HEAD TO OKC

THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK

On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers? ” Actually, there are more than you Barbie Pokg Fun At The GMC Hummer EV Is One Of The Bt Parts Of The FilmOffEnglishEvan Darlg is an openly gay driver known bt for his efforts road racg.

In an exclive terview wh Queers4Gears, the current NASCAR Sprt Cup Champn, Brad Kelowski said, “I don’t thk anyone r (if a driver is gay. ”That statement is accurate, as the reprentatn of openly gay people the sport is not limed to recently profiled Matthew Pattison, an openly gay official who’s worked the sport for 15 years and is one of the ma officials the Timg and Srg Tower.

Queers4Gears profiled an openly gay employee at Michael Waltrip Racg — who works the anizatn wh his partner. ”But what about the sponsors you ask — would an openly gay driver be able to attract a sponsor? Will there be fans that refe to accept an openly gay driver?

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Openly gay drivers.

Nothg chang a person’s views more than them knowg and rg about a gay person their life.

THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM

But Cheney’s view on LGBT rights is squarely the progrsive mp — bee he has a gay child. Attus about gay people are changg Ameri and the grandstands at the race track will not be immune to this shift.

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL

The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier  the fall of 2012.

Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat. They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall.

THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT

They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste. The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, therefore they mt rec.

A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci?

'IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE': OPENLY GAY NHRA DRIVER PREPAR TO MAKE HISTORY

A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April. That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt.

THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF

The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance.

Manford was famo for publicly gog toe-to-toe wh the cy’s mayor orr to get the police off the gay muny’s back.

Gerald Talbot to troduce a gay rights plank the state Democratic Party platform.

THE DAY FUNNY CAR’S DON GAY, JR. NEARLY DIED AT DENVER 30 YEARS AGO

The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers. “We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said. Bull is helpg to anize a gay rights symposium the fall, 50 years after he helped anize Mae’s first.

The son of 2000 European rally r champn Henrik Lundgaard, the IndyCar sophomore took advantage of his off-roadg background to secure the No. He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June. If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri.

GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS IN 2022

FLORION GOGA/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagRtersJun 8, 2022, 03:54 PM ETFormula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four-time world champn Sebastian champnship, which started 1950, has had only male drivers on the startg grid sce 1976 but has ma a ph for diversy and cln wh teams showg support for the LGBTQ Mart driver Vettel last year wore a rabow-loured T shirt Hungary wh the msage "same love" to prott anti-LGBTQ+ 34-year-old father of three has also peted wh Racg Pri logos on his r. "Perhaps wouldn't have been the se the past, but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled, and rightly so, " Vettel said an terview wh LGBTQ magaze Attu that featured him on s ver.

"I feel that a gay driver would help to speed up the elimatn of prejudice and help ph our sport a better directn.

HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'

"Blackpool forward Jake Daniels last month beme the first active male profsnal player English football 32 years to announce he is gay.

Last weekend, he returned to Daytona as an out gay man. It took nearly 40 years for him to e out publicly as gay his 2018 tobgraphy Hurley: From The Begng, which has been ma to a documentary, simply tled Hurley, now available on streamg servic and on mand.

Executive produced by Derek Dodge and actor/racer Patrick Dempsey, Hurley is an timate portra featurg ndid and emotnal terviews that explore Haywood's experience livg as a gay man the '70s while often beg overshadowed by his racg partner Gregg, whose ath 1980 shook the sport to s re. So if that barrier is somebody that's tolerant of your sexualy, you have to prove that they're wrong, " addg that the "easit way to do that is to beat the guy next door to you so he n't e back and say, 'Well you're never gog to beat me bee you're gay. " Haywood acknowledg that a lot of people knew he was gay when he first started racg, though was never discsed.

THUNR'S RUDY GAY: HEAD TO OKC

He is gay but so what?

There were many tim when Haywood beme paranoid someone might regnize him at gay bars, and sometim he'd go "out of my way to disguise myself" so he'd be gno.

The boy end up g out to Haywood, nfsg to the racg legend that he was beg bullied bee he was gay, and thought about suici daily. While he adms he don't "know any other profsnal racg driver that are gay, " he also believ they are out there -- jt not publicly.