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Former Northwt Collegiate Cyclg Conference director Mil Cmley shar his experience as a gay, Black cyclist.

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GAY CYCLG LOVER

Brendan Holer is a Masters Natnal Champn, 9-time state champn, a pro cyclg ach, and openly gay. The stigma of the gay male athlete persists, and ’s a stigma he hop to change. * bicycling gay *

Each October, on the anniversary of the send March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1987, Human Rights Watch leads the celebratn of Natnal Comg Out Day as “a remr that one of our most basic tools is the power of g out. I remember noticg openly gay upl together, and the sire to experience that openns was stronger than any other want or need I’d felt before. Wh that motivatn, I phed forward and me out a big way—announcg that I was both gay and HIV posive at once.

GAY BIKE

A Chigoland gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and alli bicyclg club. A place to meet people wh siar terts outsi of the bars. * bicycling gay *

And each graduate of the program earns a ee bike, helmet, and out, claimg my thentic life as an HIV posive gay man, fdg muny, and givg back has ma my life worthwhile. “It’s not that we don’t like straight people, ” explas Jeff Rogers, print of the Wdy Cy Cyclg Club (WCCC), Chigo’s olst lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr bicycle group.

But gay and lbian people have a fort level wh each other that’s different than wh straight people.

That sense of belongg is easy to see as we hang out at T’s, a buzzg lbian, gay, and straight pub Chigo’s LGBT-iendly Anrsonville neighborhood, on a sunny Febary afternoon. The WCCC formed 1992 to get the wheels of fellowship turng among lbian and gay folks. Munchg a veggie burger at a nearby table, Drew Jeo, a spng stctor who found the Chigo Razors gay triathlon team to pete the 2006 Gay Gam here, says he only ris wh LGBT clubs.

MOST CYCLISTS ARE GAY?

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“A lot of gay men weren’t to sports high school but we got to our 30s and 40s, ” he says. “In a gay group you might have guys who like to bike really fast, but there’s ls petn and more mararie.

“Gays and straights do social ris for the same reasons, ” she says wh a gr.

” swagger (thk Dick Vale, not At Powers), all the trappgs of a tradnal cis whe male, or at least those of a ago, a time that now feels curly antiquated nsirg how far we’ve e — Holer was gay.

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Check out our ris and events at [().**About Us**Wdy Cy Cyclg Club (WCCC) is Chigo's LGBTQA+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, alli) cyclg anizatn that is open to all and enurag mararie through bik * bicycling gay *

After his parti wrapped, he’d feign fatigue, tell iends he was head to bed, then meet lol men onle and later that same night person (anywhere except for Rochter’s gay bars, which he avoid for fear that a straight iend might spot him). “I had a iend whom I told I was gay, and he was like, ‘You’re kiddg me, right? You CANNOT be gay.

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Bicycle south om Tucson and enjoy historic landmarks, gged nyons, and blazg sunsets on this gay Arizona bike tour: Savor the Amerin Southwt. * bicycling gay *

Growg up durg the ‘80s and ‘90s suburban Rochter, Holer didn’t have any gay role mols.

THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT

Jo a gay Italy bicyclg tour ridg the hills of Tny. Fun gay travel wh amazg cuise, archecture, history, medieval villag, and more! * bicycling gay *

“I had no gay iends. My fay didn’t know any gay people.

I had no accs to a real gay human, which sounds crazy to say…” he adms now.

’ So, to a kid the msage was, ‘Hey, if you’re gay and you have sex wh someone of the same sex, you’re gonna get AIDS and die. ’ There was no Michael Sam om the Rams beg like, ‘Yo, what’s up everyone, I’m gay and I’m cshg people on the football field.

THIS CYCLIST STARTED GAY’S OKAY CYCLG TO CELEBRATE DIVERSY AND IMPROVE REPRENTATN

Laevens, who’s 19 years old, says he wants to be an example for other gay cyclists. * bicycling gay *

"To a kid the msage was, ‘Hey, if you’re gay and you have sex wh someone of the same sex, you’re gonna get AIDS and die. A gay athlete like Sam, the first openly gay NFL player, was the type of role mol that Holer need.

GRAEME OBREE REVEALS HE IS GAY

Allen Shaw works to promote LGBTQ+ acceptance cyclg wh his muny, Gay’s Okay Cyclg. * bicycling gay *

By llege, partyg replaced those activi, but he tackled wh the same gto and palled around wh a crew of straight male iends typil of that ilk and era, one which a certa homophobic slur was so woven to the vernacular that Holer sometim heard g out of his own mouth.

Perhaps wantg to repture some of that magic of his first weekend as an openly gay man, he moved to Nashville, and not long after that, he met Chris Cooley, a silver-haired ntist 25 years his senr.

Sometim you jt want to ri wh other gay and lbian cyclists... * bicycling gay *

Though tergeneratnal relatnships are mon  the gay muny, Holer wasn’t eager to expla to straight iends, and so he’d rigned himself to the ia of beg out while somehow remag hidn. Walle ti his iend’s talent as a ach to that of his g-out journey as a gay man.

It’s a photo he proudly shared on Instagram, along wh the hashtag #gaycyclist — somethg he clus wh nearly everythg he posts. “I have iends who make ments like, ‘Du, no one r that you’re gay.

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