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Contents:
- MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
- MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS
MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
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. * motocross gay *
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.
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. 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. Colls is referred to as beg the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport.
THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
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’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.
MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS
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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. As a longtime biker and an openly gay man, Tom Hood says there likely always will be a place for motorcycle groups that ter to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr groups, he says, aren’t as necsary as they were years ago. Origally om Platteville, Hood is print of the Rirs Motorcycle Club Boston, one of the natn’s olst gay men’s motorcycle club was formed the early 1980s when the biker muny didn’t wele LGBT rirs who openly exprsed their, LGBT bikers say thgs are much better, although there are exceptns.
Paras like this are a sign of better tim, acrdg to Hood, who attend Lawrence Universy Appleton om 1985 through ago, he belonged to an outlaw biker club, but as a gay man, he has sce ma Rirs his outlaw clubs — known as “1 percenters” bee 99 percent of bikers don’t belong to them — have a strong anti-gay most people motorcyclg pay ltle or no attentn to someone’s genr or sexual inty, acrdg to Hood. ”Yet Harleys are popular wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr bikers, said Chaz Antonelli, past print of the Empire Cy Motorcycle Club, New York, the olst gay men’s biker group the natn.