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THIS GAY TEENAGE CYCLIST IS ONE OF THE FIRST PRO MALE RIRS TO EVER E OUT

Laevens, who’s 19 years old, says he wants to be an example for other gay cyclists. * gay man on bike *

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.

ACCINTAL FIGUREHEAD: CLAY DAVI, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE ELE RIR THE UK

Brendan Holer is a Masters Natnal Champn, 9-time state champn, a pro cyclg ach, and openly gay. The stigma of the gay male athlete persists, and ’s a stigma he hop to change. * gay man on bike *

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.

” swagger (thk Dick Vale, not At Powers), all the trappgs of a tradnal cis whe male, or at least those of a ago, a time that now feels curly antiquated nsirg how far we’ve e — Holer was gay. After his parti wrapped, he’d feign fatigue, tell iends he was head to bed, then meet lol men onle and later that same night person (anywhere except for Rochter’s gay bars, which he avoid for fear that a straight iend might spot him). “I had a iend whom I told I was gay, and he was like, ‘You’re kiddg me, right?

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* gay man on bike *

You CANNOT be gay. Growg up durg the ‘80s and ‘90s suburban Rochter, Holer didn’t have any gay role mols. “I had no gay iends.

My fay didn’t know any gay people. I had no accs to a real gay human, which sounds crazy to say…” he adms now.