This openly gay NHRA racer buts Friday Topeka. Here's why groups are lg up to endorse him

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Travis Shumake is lookg to bee the first openly gay drag racer at the NRHA Campg World Seri this weekend at Heartland Motorsports Park.

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"- Jason Colls, first openly gay athlete U. The rabow "Equaly Hoe" is loted across the street om the anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church. When Aaron Jackson found a property for sale across the street om the Wtboro Baptist Church Topeka, Kansas, right away he had the ia to buy the hoe and pat the lors of the Pri founr of Plantg Peace — a global nonprof whose iativ clu environmental nservatn and LGBTQ advocy mpaigns — Jackson wanted to make a statement wh his choice of pat a number of relig groups are supportive of LGBTQ cln and equaly, acrdg to the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the Wtboro Baptist Church is not one of anizatn is nsired to be an extremist and anti-gay relig group, acrdg to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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THIS OPENLY GAY NHRA RACER BUTS FRIDAY TOPEKA. HERE'S WHY GROUPS ARE LG UP TO ENDORSE HIM

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TOPEKA (KSNT) – Travis Shumake, the first openly gay profsnal drag racer, will make his racg but a pri-themed dragster at Heartland Motorsports Park at the NHRA Natnals Aug. The group is known for prottg soldiers funerals, beg anti-semic, and promotg the ath penalty for gay Amerins.

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This openly gay NHRA racer buts Friday Topeka. Here's why groups are lg up to endorse him .

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