Openly gay jockey Jack Duern fds niche horse racg - Outsports

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• OPENLY GAY JOCKEY FDS NICHE HORSE RACG AND HAD A FLG AS A DRAG QUEEN
• JACK DUERN: UK'S ONLY OUT GAY JOCKEY LIGHTED TO MAKE RETURN TO RACE RIDG AFTER TWO-YEAR ABSENCE
• ROBERT DOVER WAS THE FIRST OUT GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE, 1988
• EUROPE’S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY SAYS OTHER RIRS WON’T E OUT FOR FEAR OF G THEIR REERS
• OUTSPORTS TOUTS GAY BRISH HORSE RACG JOCKEY

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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ROBERT DOVER WAS THE FIRST OUT GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETE, 1988

"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!

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

OUTSPORTS TOUTS GAY BRISH HORSE RACG JOCKEY