Few profsnal male cyclists of any disciple have been openly gay.
Contents:
- BMX PRO COREY WALSH COM OUT AS ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CYCLISTS
- THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT
- GAY BIKE
- RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
BMX PRO COREY WALSH COM OUT AS ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CYCLISTS
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”Corey is one of the first high-profile male cyclists of any disciple to e out as gay, jog pro road racers Graeme Obree and Jt Laevens and fellow BMXer Matt Berger as one of the very few LGBT men the bike jt sucks ya know? “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.
THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT
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. * gay bicycles *
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.
“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.
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Laevens, who’s 19 years old, says he wants to be an example for other gay cyclists. * gay bicycles *
” 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.
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.
RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
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Growg up durg the ‘80s and ‘90s suburban Rochter, Holer didn’t have any gay role mols. “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.
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’ 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.
"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.
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.