A Chigoland gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and alli bicyclg club. A place to meet people wh siar terts outsi of the bars.
Contents:
- GRAEME OBREE REVEALS HE IS GAY
- MOST CYCLISTS ARE GAY?
- THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT
GRAEME OBREE REVEALS HE IS GAY
Laevens, who’s 19 years old, says he wants to be an example for other gay cyclists. * cycling is gay *
Image 1 of 4Graeme Obree on track at Palermo for World Track Champnships whout helmet (Jonny Lee Miller) (Image cred: MGM)Graeme Obree, a two-time World Champn and hour rerd holr, has admted the torment he faced as he me to terms wh his sexualy, after revealg that he is gay to a Brish an terview wh the Sttish Sun newspaper published on Monday, Obree admted that the anxiety associated wh hidg the fact that he was gay had led to two separate attempts to take his own life, 1998 and 2001. "I was brought up by a war generatn; they grew up when gay people were put jail. Beg homosexual was so unthkable that you jt wouldn't be gay.
"I was brought up thkg you'd be better ad than gay. I mt have known I was gay and was so unacceptable, " said the Obree's private life and his achievements on the bike have bed to make him one of cyclg's most enigmatic figur.
MOST CYCLISTS ARE GAY?
An ele teenage cyclist has bee one of the first pro male rirs to ever e out as gay.
Olympian Lea Davison is openly gay — there are far fewer on the men’s si. Former world champn Graeme Obree revealed he was gay 2011, disclosg he ponred suici bee of his sexualy. In his announcement, Laevens acknowledged he don’t know any other active openly gay male cyclists.
“I didn’t fd difficult to exprs myself, but I did sport, bee I don’t know any [cyclist] who is gay, ” he said. “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.
THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT
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.
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.