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Gay jockey Jack Duern says he has found acceptance his sport and he drag as an outlet.

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OPENLY GAY JOCKEY FDS NICHE HORSE RACG AND HAD A FLG AS A DRAG QUEEN

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It’s been more than four years sce apprentice jockey Jack Duern me out as gay and the English rir says the sport has bee more acceptg. Duern, 24, me out on Twter late 2014, tweetg, “Y I’m a jockey and y I’m gay.

He said he immediately lost ris om olr, nservative traers who owned on his beg openly gay. Duern, who has 21 reer ws, said there are other gay jockeys the sport but that they are reluctant to e out.

This spe sayg on the podst that “pretty much all of the jockeys were fe wh [his beg gay]. Jack Duern, the UK's only out gay jockey, has said is fantastic to be back the weighg room after returng to the saddle July.

JACK DUERN: UK'S ONLY OUT GAY JOCKEY LIGHTED TO MAKE RETURN TO RACE RIDG AFTER TWO-YEAR ABSENCE

EUROPE’S only openly gay jockey is back and he's ready to prove a pot.Apprentice Jack Duern me out 2014 - but as of yet no other rirs have * gay horse jockey *

"There are a few traers who are openly gay but as a jockey, I was the first one so was que dntg but I was great iends wh most of the weighg room and I knew wouldn't be a problem wh them anyway. In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, Robert Dover ma Olympics history by blazg a trail for generatns of gay athlet to e.

That was when Dover matter-of-factly told the public that he was gay. “My thg was, ‘My name’s Robert Dover, I’m the token Jewish gay boy on the U.

I was somebody who wasn’t aaid to talk about beg openly gay Olympic sport. EUROPE’S only openly gay jockey is back and he's ready to prove a pot. 2Duern is the only openly gay jockey ridg the UKCred: PA.

ROBERT DOVER WAS THE FIRST OUT GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE, 1988

Statistilly, there has to be more gay jockeys out there.

EUROPE’S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY SAYS OTHER RIRS WON’T E OUT FOR FEAR OF G THEIR REERS

"And fairns ’s not dissiar other sports - hence why there are very few openly gay footballers and athlet. Outsports wrers are always ecstatic to report on athlet—like Brish horse racg jockey Jack Duern—who have revealed they are eher lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

Duern's story is a real treat for Outsports' wrer Jim Buzski bee the gay jockey has found acceptance his sport AND he drag as an outlet! The patronizg LGBT promotns ually clu the urageo g out story, even though many media are the tank for the movement, along wh the unflatterg portrayal of people who don't see homosexualy as somethg to celebrate.

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Buzski nclud his tribute to the gay draggg jockey wh a b of sad news: "Alas, I uld fd no imag of Duern as Co, but ’s ol that he is able to show both his athletic and artistic sis. Is he unaware that Bob Costas brand Rsia's 2014 Wter Olympics the "homophobic" Gam?

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Robert Dover, the first out gay Olympic athlete - Outsports .

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