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

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• FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAG RACER TO UNVEIL PRI R TOPEKA
• THIS OPENLY GAY NHRA RACER BUTS FRIDAY TOPEKA. HERE'S WHY GROUPS ARE LG UP TO ENDORSE HIM

FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAG RACER TO UNVEIL PRI R TOPEKA

"- 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.

And s members believe that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to the church's webse (which clus a homophobic ephet s URL). Left: A sign above an entrance to the Wtboro Baptist Church photographed Augt 2014 says that homosexuals will suffer "the vengeance of eternal fire.

As NBC reported at the time, Jackson and thori disvered anti-gay graffi as well as seven bullet hol on the outsi of the home. Visors started wrg posive msag on the outsi of the Equaly Hoe after was vandalized wh antigay graffi 2016, Jackson told Insir. 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.

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

The group is known for prottg soldiers funerals, beg anti-semic, and promotg the ath penalty for gay Amerins. Travis Shumake pulls the vyl l to reveal the letterg for the anizatn Pri Kansas as he works to plete the full rabow ls on his drag race r Tuday eveng Sprg number of thgs should have stopped Travis two years ago, Shumake had planned his but to the eic, high-octane world of Natnal Hot Rod Associatn drag racg as the erng body's first openly gay the son of NHRA Funny Car drag-racg legend Tripp Shumake, the younger Shumake had grown up that world, havg attend drag rac each summer at the Kansas Speedway and racg shifter karts wh his father the late the s sce his father passed away a 1999 motorcycle accint, though, somethg kept llg Shumake back to the sport — back to followg his father's he started drivg. At a separate race Las Vegas, Shumake failed to qualify, markg the first time the Randy Meyer's dragster that he was drivg failed to qualify over eight all that, Shumake has learned to manage his expectatns, even as he prepar to qualify as the first openly gay drag racer at the NHRA Campg World Seri at Heartland Motorsports Park on Here's how to get tickets for the 2022 Menard's NHRA Natnals TopekaHe'll do so a rabow-lored dragster — plete wh rabow parachut — thanks to a first-of-s-kd sponsorship al wh Vis Topeka, the cy's statn marketg anizatn, and Pri Kansas as the anizatns look to promote the cy as an clive wayTravis Shumake shows off his drag racer at Evergy Plaza Wednday morng tailg the number of world champnships has won.

Shumake was recently sponsored by Vis Topeka and Pri Kansas as the first openly gay NHRA racer history and will be petg this weekend at Heartland Park Speedway.

We’ll see where go, " Shumake as he gets ready to race qualifiers Friday, Shumake is exced at the prospect of makg through to the elimatn rounds on Saturday and This Kansas State rearch program is helpg HBCU stunts bee agricultural scholarsVis Topeka, Pri Kansas play role Travis Shumake's but as gay racerDrag racer Travis Shumake, left, works wh team manager and fellow driver Megan Meyer to create a ctom geometric rabow-lored wrap around a race r Tuday their Sprg Hill shop. Shumake is beg sponsored by the Greater Topeka Partnership as the first openly gay drag racer.