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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. * gay motorcycle racers *

He talks wh them about his longtime partner, his management pany (promotg motorcycle racers), and beg openly gay the sport.

As we've heard over and over aga om athlet many sports, motorcycle racg simply isn't as overtly homophobic as you might thk:. Beg openly gay racg sounds like a difficult marriage of personali, but ’s not really.

And as we've said for years, when an athlete out, spe homophobic ments he may have heard the past, his g out chang the dynamic of the team or locker room or sport:. It’s very rare I’ve ever heard anyone act or speak wh a homophobic tone at the track.

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Even then, the person who ma the ment poor taste would ually apologize later when word gets around to them that I or someone else the paddock is fact gay. 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 Big Boi Mak The Big RVsOffEnglishEvan 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.

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”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?

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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.

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Attus about gay people are changg Ameri and the grandstands at the race track will not be immune to this shift. Gay motorcycle racer Lisa Taylor set a personal bt speed of 226 mph while speed racg last month at the Mojave Air and Space Port Mojave, Calif. Photography by Gold & Goose Today’s MotoGP prs nference advance of this weekend’s Grand Prix of Spa was ma a ltle ls dull when the subject of qutng strayed om the ual racg and racg polics to a topic that h mastream sports media this week after NBA player Jason Colls’ announcement that he is gay.

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Colls is referred to as beg the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport. ’s David Emmett asked the panel of rirs: “Last week Jason Colls, an NBA player, admted he was homosexual. Now there are no openly homosexual MotoGP rirs.

Are people aaid of g out gay or are you jt more really terted women? It’s never me out that anybody is gay.

“For the people who ask me on Twter or whatever if they are wag this is the time that they will know I’m not gay, ” Je Lorenzo said. “I rpect gay people.

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“I never thought about that, that some rirs n be gay, ” Doviss said.

“I’m not gay. For sure I rpect the guys that are gay – they are also normal person, ” he fished more serly.

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