BBC Sport looks at the reer of Mike Bttler, Formula 1's only known gay male driver, and his impact on today's LGBT+ motorsport muny.
Contents:
- VIO ON CISG GAYTCKERS
- THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
- LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER
- F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, SAYS VETTEL
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- 'IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE': OPENLY GAY NHRA DRIVER PREPAR TO MAKE HISTORY
- F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
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It took nearly 40 years for him to e out publicly as gay his 2018 tobgraphy Hurley: From The Begng, which has been ma to a documentary, simply tled Hurley, now available on streamg servic and on mand. Executive produced by Derek Dodge and actor/racer Patrick Dempsey, Hurley is an timate portra featurg ndid and emotnal terviews that explore Haywood's experience livg as a gay man the '70s while often beg overshadowed by his racg partner Gregg, whose ath 1980 shook the sport to s re. So if that barrier is somebody that's tolerant of your sexualy, you have to prove that they're wrong, " addg that the "easit way to do that is to beat the guy next door to you so he n't e back and say, 'Well you're never gog to beat me bee you're gay.
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" Haywood acknowledg that a lot of people knew he was gay when he first started racg, though was never discsed. He is gay but so what?
There were many tim when Haywood beme paranoid someone might regnize him at gay bars, and sometim he'd go "out of my way to disguise myself" so he'd be gno.
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While he adms he don't "know any other profsnal racg driver that are gay, " he also believ they are out there -- jt not publicly.
He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June. If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri. Bttler remas the only known gay male driver to have peted at the hight level of did so at a time when F1 was an pecially macho environment.
"I knew he was gay, but didn't matter my world. "The racg world of the 2020s is a very different place to that of the Bishop, a Racg Pri ambassador and Aston Mart F1 chief munitns officer, said: "In the early 1970s, people didn't talk about beg gay. "In the Uned Kgdom, was only 1967 that homosexualy was legalised between two nsentg adults private.
F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Overall, he sred five top-10 fish his then the UK was plunged to fancial turmoil by the 1973 oil crisis, and his team did not have the money to stay the 34, Bttler retired om Bradshaw, a motorsport PR nsultant who first met Bttler the early 1970s, said: "There was no stigma wh Mike, he was a nice gentle person - everyone knew he was gay, wasn't a secret and was accepted. "I spect would have been easier for him to live the liftyle he wanted LA and San Francis, whereas beg gay London was a more secretive thg, " said Phillips. "'LGBT+ people have always been part of motorsport'Brr Endurance Champnship driver and Racg Pri -founr Richard Morris has had lots of support wh motorsport after g out as gay 2018Sce Bttler's ath, several motorsport drivers have e out as Mans class wner Danny Watts me out 2017, a year after retirg, while the W Seri there is LGBT+ reprentatn on track fellow Brish drivers Abbie Eaton and Sarah Moore.