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 thk.
Contents:
- WHAT ARE THE TOP GAY-FRIENDLY CARS?
- THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF
- THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
- GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER
- GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
- THE 10 BT CARS WHICH TO GET GAY-MARRIED
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
- IS THE MAZDA MIATA A GAY R?
- UPDATED: GAY MAN BEATEN & DRAGGED BEHD R FOR BLOCKS
WHAT ARE THE TOP GAY-FRIENDLY CARS?
Apparently, we as a society are so wrapped up the ia of how "gay" objects, clothg styl, and activi are that we n't even leave tomobil out of ! Th, the guys at Car Talk, those te terers of r nversatn, have e up wh the: lists of the top 10 gay and lbian rs. Let's take a look,… * gay mans car *
It’s no surprise that the vehicl most rearched by gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr shoppers are those produced by gay-iendly tomakers. Classifi vehicle manufacturers as gay-iendly or not based on their rporate polici for offerg domtic-partner benefs to their employe the U. Gaywheels has been keepg tabs on gay-iendly vehicl on a quarterly basis for the past 1.
“Sce the ceptn of this list, the Top 10 Most-Rearched Vehicl have always e solely om gay-iendly tomakers, leatg the importance of a brand’s rporate polici and posns regard to the gay muny, ” said Joe LaMuraglia, founr of. As wh all the rs on the list that have been stereotyped as “gay, ” the Forter is stylish, strayg om the “strong” or “bold” more mascule sign. The notn that a product is girly or feme was also associated wh beg gay.
The general ia was that gay mal were effemate and would have an affy for “girly” products.
THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF
You n see how this would have been terpreted as homophobic when the LGBT muny felt margalized and targeted.
THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
There exist r brands that are known as “gay iendly. One of the pani is Volkswagen, which offers domtic partner verage for their gay staff members.
The gays support Volkswagen bee Volkswagen supports them. I bet you didn’t know this, but gays are said to fancy style while lbians favor fuel enomy.
GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER
In Febary of 2021, Tla was voted the number one place for gays and lbians alike to work ncerng safety, rights, and regnn. It is not unmon to see gays and lbians alike drivg a Tla.
Regardls of the tentn, maybe was jt gays or lbians who preferred style and fuel enomy. This show foced on the liv of three gay men who were iends livg Manchter and the many plexi their liv had.
GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
” So whenever you’d see a Jeep Wrangler, you’d immediately thk of gay men Manchter. For the gays who prefer the sign facet when to rs, this is tricky but surprisgly easy to rencile. What is nsired “mascule” also appli to the gay man, who would have to thunk , right?
THE 10 BT CARS WHICH TO GET GAY-MARRIED
Gay Friendly Ci. Zach Herr didn’t thk was possible to be an out gay pro race r driver.
But this time, as an out gay man. “I never actually had the opportuny to disver who I was as a person, and what that other part was, once I realized I was gay, ” Herr said. He heard the slurs around the tracks and uldn't thk of another gay driver.
Herr and his boyiend, who had also recently e out, started immersg themselv the gay muny. Herr, as one might expect for a baby gay, remembered the experience as “overwhelmg.
THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
The ultra-macho culture of NASCAR has slowly been changg recent years: Devon Roe, another out gay pro to racer, was recently featured on NASCAR’s Twter page.
Some would say there's also a rrelatn wh Jeep Wranglers and a man's statement about his sexualy, as the Jeep Wrangler has bizarrely bee known as a 'gay' r.
The science: There’s not a lot of science volved how or why the Jeep Wrangler advertently beme a gay in, but ’s a stereotype nohels. As one articulate blogger wrote, “I thk there’s somethg ultra-butch [about them which] jt has a lot of appeal to some gay men. It's like askg why a wboy image is a gay in.
IS THE MAZDA MIATA A GAY R?
Apparently, we as a society are so wrapped up the ia of how "gay" objects, clothg styl, and activi are that we n't even leave tomobil out of ! Th, the guys at Car Talk, those te terers of r nversatn, have e up wh the: lists of the top 10 gay and lbian rs. ‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishCar Talk took a pletely non-scientific poll and queried their lbian and gay listeners, and apparently some straight and bisexual people, too, askg for nomatns of the bt queer vehicl.
UPDATED: GAY MAN BEATEN & DRAGGED BEHD R FOR BLOCKS
Nomatns om gays, om lbians, om borg heterosexuals like ... Good for seemg utterly pretent and important the area of At's Wt Camp, where I lived wedged between sorory, so how about the Top 10 Gay Cars? The 3-seri is on the gay list?
Is VW to gay men what Suba is to lbian women? I certaly didn’t choose bee so far away om any sort of gay nightlife. We met more and more “r gays, ” and they were all dog neat thgs wh motors and wheels.
Googlg thgs like “gay r muny” rulted prsgly stark rults. Gays and lbians buy a lot of rs, and the to dtry has begun to regnize that. A new survey (of 3, 685 rponnts) by and Senei reveals that 67 percent of both gay male and lbian r buyers nsir "very or somewhat important" for to pani to exhib a "gay-iendly" reputatn (when 's fed by whether the pany offers domtic partner benefs to s employe).