Travis Shumake Striv to Bee First Openly Gay NHRA Funny Car Driver

Contents:

• THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
• NASCAR WILL HAVE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER YEARS DURG 2021 SEASON
• PARKERSBURG MAN DISCS BEG AN OPENLY GAY RACE R DRIVER SPORTS ILLTRATED
• TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER
• THIS OPENLY GAY NHRA RACER BUTS FRIDAY TOPEKA. HERE'S WHY GROUPS ARE LG UP TO ENDORSE HIM
• EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER
• ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
• THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT

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 GFC Camper Mak Roughg It A Lot Ls RoughOffEnglishEvan 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?

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

Openly gay drivers.

Nothg chang a person’s views more than them knowg and rg about a gay person their life. But Cheney’s view on LGBT rights is squarely the progrsive mp — bee he has a gay child.

NASCAR WILL HAVE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER YEARS DURG 2021 SEASON

Attus about gay people are changg Ameri and the grandstands at the race track will not be immune to this shift. He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June.

PARKERSBURG MAN DISCS BEG AN OPENLY GAY RACE R DRIVER SPORTS ILLTRATED

If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri. Devon Roe looks to do the same 2021 as the first openly gay NASCAR driver years. Like Wallace last year, Devon Roe uld be that NASCAR driver 2021 who brgs a pletely new set of fans when he be the first openly gay driver to pete at a NASCAR natnal tourg seri event sce 2003.

Devon Roe to but 2021 as first openly gay NASCAR driver years. Stephen Rhos was first openly gay NASCAR driver.

Like Bubba Wallace was a trailblazer on the NASCAR Cup Seri as the lone Black driver, Devon Roe will do the same this year on the NASCAR Tck Seri as the only openly gay driver.

TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER

Stephen Rhos was the first gay NASCAR driver and he raced a uple of tim 2003. Empire sports has article statg that Jeff Gordon has fally e out and adm he is gay.

Gordon was a romantic relatnship wh openly-gay driver Stephen Rhos:. wh a fellow openly gay NASCAR member.

THIS OPENLY GAY NHRA RACER BUTS FRIDAY TOPEKA. HERE'S WHY GROUPS ARE LG UP TO ENDORSE HIM

Jeff Gordon who is gog through a divorce said that he is now datg openly gay driver Stephen Rhos. athlet who are new to the openly gay sports world.

If they wanna be gay go be a fashn. (Photo by Zach Yost Racg Photography, provid by Dt Sproe)PARKERSBURG — An article the latt issue of Sports Illtrated featur a lol race r driver and the seemg culture clash he fac as a gay dirt track petor.

EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER

“I’m jt an old untry boy om Wt Virgia who happens to be openly gay, ” said Dt Sproe, 35, of Parkersburg. The latt edn of Sports Illtrated featured Parkersburg dirt track racer Dt Sproe, an openly gay petor a sport often associated wh a nservative fan base. “Jt bee you’re gay don’t mean I wouldn’t like you as a person, ” he said.

Travis Shumake is the son of former NHRA Funny Car driver Tripp Shumake, who was killed a motorcycle accint 36, Travis Shumake hop to bee the first openly gay driver the NHRA Funny Car class. Shumake plans to h the racetrack by season’s end, memoratg his father’s last NHRA Funny Car victory 40 years ago at the Fals—and beg the Campg World Drag Racg Seri’ first openly gay June 15, Shumake earned his Nostalgia Funny Car license at the Frank Hawley Drag Racg School Florida. But they're not givg me a mulligan for beg gay bee my dad was great or whatever.

ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?

”Curly, he has gotten oppose advice om mentors about whether to tra on the fact he’s gay. You don't want to be the guy who was gay and terrible.

Shumake said, “So I'm back and forth on playg up the gay rd, but I thk 's a good bs mol. ”Tripp Shumake didn’t live to see his son bee a foster parent and an advote for homels gay teens through his work Arizona wh one•n•ten, a non-prof anizatn dited to helpg LGBTQ youth ag 14-24. Now is the time to show the world there is a place for gay petors and fans motorsports.

I affectnately ll the Gay Mafia. There's about 10 people I know the sport that are gay that haven't taken the steps like I am takg, jt bee of that fear, ” Shumake said. “There have been so many more gay people, but we don't talk.

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

“Maybe if, for some reason, someone is able to e out of the closet or enter the sport—gay, lbian, transgenr—bee of my attempts at this, that would certaly be rewardg enough to me. “I'm like, how do people not know you're gay?

’”Devon Roe, 22, a dirt-track sprt-r veteran om Wt Burlgton, Iowa, is a iend of Shumake, and they enurage one another as Roe embarks on his NASCAR journey as the first openly gay Campg World Tck Seri driver.

Any number of thgs should have stopped Travis two years ago, Shumake had planned his but to the eic, high-octane world of Natnal Hot Rod Associatn drag racg as the erng body's first openly gay the son of NHRA Funny Car drag-racg legend Tripp Shumake, the younger Shumake had grown up that world, havg attend drag rac each summer at the Kansas Speedway and racg shifter karts wh his father the late the s sce his father passed away a 1999 motorcycle accint, though, somethg kept llg Shumake back to the sport — back to followg his father's he started drivg. At a separate race Las Vegas, Shumake failed to qualify, markg the first time the Randy Meyer's dragster that he was drivg failed to qualify over eight all that, Shumake has learned to manage his expectatns, even as he prepar to qualify as the first openly gay drag racer at the NHRA Campg World Seri at Heartland Motorsports Park on Here's how to get tickets for the 2022 Menard's NHRA Natnals TopekaHe'll do so a rabow-lored dragster — plete wh rabow parachut — thanks to a first-of-s-kd sponsorship al wh Vis Topeka, the cy's statn marketg anizatn, and Pri Kansas as the anizatns look to promote the cy as an clive wayTravis Shumake shows off his drag racer at Evergy Plaza Wednday morng tailg the number of world champnships has won. Shumake was recently sponsored by Vis Topeka and Pri Kansas as the first openly gay NHRA racer history and will be petg this weekend at Heartland Park Speedway.