LGBT+ History Month: Mike Bttler - Formula 1's only known gay male driver - BBC Sport

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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.

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THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM

The openns of the LGBTQ muny has creased tckg, as has elsewhere, recent years. There are signs of tolerance major sectors of the dtry – fleets, tck stops and tck makers – and some s active endorsement of diversy sexual inty. At the same time, gay and trans women tck drivers often stggle wh hatred, prejudice and vlence. * gay chevy drivers *

He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June.

LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: MIKE BTTLER - FORMULA 1'S ONLY KNOWN GAY MALE DRIVER

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If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri. The openns of the lbian-gay-bisexual-transgenr-queer (or qutng) muny has creased tckg, as has elsewhere, recent years.

At the same time, gay and trans women tck drivers often stggle wh hatred, prejudice and vlence, says thor Anne Balay. She was briefly a tcker before wrg “Semi Queer: Insi the Liv of Gay, Trans, and Black Tck Drivers. Shelle Lichti found the dtry’s largt onle support group for LGBTQ tckers 2008 to honor a close, gay tcker iend who was gang-raped and mted suici.

She says the nearly 4, 000 members of the Facebook group, LGBT Tckers, offer support, tips and a safe place to talk about the gay bashg that many endure. 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.

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"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. 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.

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"'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. Richard Morris, -founr of Racg Pri and a driver for the Praga team the Brr Endurance Champnship, me out as gay 2018, when already tablished motorsport. Some people knew I was gay but I wasn't out - I thk that is very siar to Bttler's experience.

"If he was alive, he would have been terviewed about Sectn 28 and gay marriage.

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"Sectn 28 was a law that affected England, Wal and Stland, passed 1988 by a Conservative ernment that stopped uncils and schools "promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" were mass protts by LGBT+ mpaigners and the law was repealed Stland 2000, before England and Wal did the same 2003.

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