Sunday Conversatn: Donnie Gay, 8-time world bull ridg champ, on to-pilot

Contents:

• TERRI GAY ACCEPTS “PRICELS” SHARON SHOULRS AWARD WH HER DEARLY DEPARTED FRIEND ON HER MD
• AFTER LAYOFF, GAY BACK AT NFR
• DON GAY WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, HEIGHT, WIFE, NET WORTH, FAY
• THE REAL REASON SAMI GAYLE LEFT BLUE BLOODS
• SUNDAY CONVERSATN: DONNIE GAY, 8-TIME WORLD BULL RIDG CHAMP, ON TO-PILOT
• EIGHT-TIME PRCA WORLD CHAMPN BULLRIR DONNIE GAY LIVE ON CAJUN RAD TONIGHT AT 5 P.M.
• DONNIE GAY AND LANE FROST: A SPECIAL RELATNSHIP

TERRI GAY ACCEPTS “PRICELS” SHARON SHOULRS AWARD WH HER DEARLY DEPARTED FRIEND ON HER MD

(Photo by Paras Griff/Getty Imag for ESSENCE)McClurk, 61, had prevly opened up years ago about his past stggl wh homosexualy, which he lled a “perversn, ” and claimed that he was able to supprs his sexual orientatn, cg his and many Christian church’ stance on homosexualy as a admted that he still had urg to be wh men but chose not to.

Comparg homosexualy to diabet he said, “I don’t eat sugar, but don’t mean that I don’t want sugar.

AFTER LAYOFF, GAY BACK AT NFR

”Read More: Kirk Frankl lls out homophobia the church: ‘Nothg to do wh the Bible’Now, the Grammy Award-wng artist says he believ his stggle over his sexualy will leave him whout the fay he always dreamed of.

”Read More: Kelly Rowland explas why she left her church after Dty’s Child’s ‘secular mic’ cricism“There may be some who will read this and rent some of the statements ma about homosexualy. My hope is for gay/queer children and adults are met wh love and acceptance so they n eely exist.

DON GAY WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, HEIGHT, WIFE, NET WORTH, FAY

LAS VEGAS – When Terri Gay, the wife of eight-time World Champn Donnie Gay, took to the stage at the PBR’s Hero and Legends Celebratn at the South Pot Hotel Las Vegas, she took the opportuny to poke fun at both herself and her loquac hband, who prented her wh the Sharon Shoulrs Award. “I met Terri Gay when I was 16; she was 13, ” he said. “It tak the village to nquer your dreams, and one of my dreams has been Terri Gay.

Donnie McClurk has stggled wh his sexualy and ced cints of childhood moltatn and exposure to pornography for “turng” him gay.

Donnie Gay lik to borrow a le om another notable wboy, Jim Shoulrs, to expla his "retirement" 1982 and his subsequent return to bull ridg this year.

THE REAL REASON SAMI GAYLE LEFT BLUE BLOODS

"I heard Jim say this the other day, and I thk 's one of his better l, " said Gay. ' " Perhaps that is enough of an explanatn why Donnie Gay cid to return to the pro roo circu after a year's absence. But for five years, bull ridg had been a miserable way for Gay to make a pa, most often om a severely pulled gro mcle or a pulled hamstrg, gave him more misery than did the bulls.

"My doctor told me I was fe om the waist up, " says Gay, "'but he would jt as soon start over om the waist down.

"The year's layoff, says Gay, may not have given him a new body, but is one he n live wh now. "Beg retirement was good for me, " said Gay, who spent most of 1983 workg for his father, neal Gay, a roo promoter and producer Mque, Texas.

SUNDAY CONVERSATN: DONNIE GAY, 8-TIME WORLD BULL RIDG CHAMP, ON TO-PILOT

"Gay, 31, won his seventh world bull ridg tle 1981, tyg the rerd set by Shoulrs, of Henryetta, the 1950's.

But the pa of the 1982 season was more than Gay uld qualified for his 11th nsecutive Natnal Fals '82, but he announced October that he would be retirg at the end of the season, his qut for an eighth world tle did ri two roos 1983.

"Gay promptly placed the money his first roo of the 1984 season and me to the Natnal Fals first place the standgs wh wngs for the year of $67, 943, over $10, 000 more than Charl Sampson of Los Angel, the send-place rir. "While Gay creds the 100-roo lim le as makg easier on his body, he still feels the le is an jtice, pecially to bull rirs. "I've always gone to 150 to 160 roos a year, " said Gay, "and I told them they should put an entry lim on and not a roo most roos, I only get one ri.

EIGHT-TIME PRCA WORLD CHAMPN BULLRIR DONNIE GAY LIVE ON CAJUN RAD TONIGHT AT 5 P.M.

"Gay said the new le was perhaps the biggt change he noticed roo when he returned. "It will take an extraordary effort for anyone to overtake Gay for the world tle this year.

"Then will e the big qutn Gay will have to answer. “Nicky Wheeler had the talent and had the bt personaly and sense of humor and tght me what the word humble meant -I didn’t have much humblens as you know and I didn’t re – but I learned what was by beg around him – he did not get exclud om anythg, jt a great person, ” said 8 Time PRCA World Champn bull rir Don Gay. In 1977 he jumped the tck and airplane wh Don Gay and end the year ridg 9 of ten bulls at the Natnal Fals Roo Oklahoma Cy and won two rounds - earng around $2, 000.

DONNIE GAY AND LANE FROST: A SPECIAL RELATNSHIP

Don Gay remembers the story. He will have the opportuny, ” said Gay.

“He had more abily than me, Tuff Heman, and Jim Shoulrs all rolled together, ” ntued Gay. Dcribed by Gay as havg an herent unique natural abily. Age, Wiki Bgraphy and WikiDon Gay Height, Weight & MeasurementsDatg & Relatnship statDon Gay Net WorthDon Gay Social NetworkTimele.