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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

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

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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].

EUROPE’S only openly gay jockey is back and he's ready to prove a pot.

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Outsports is the LGBT blog of SB Natn, and 's like an onle versn of the newspaper society page that, stead of reportg engagements and weddgs, announc which athlet have e gallopg out of the closet. 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! * gay horse racing jockeys *

2Duern is the only openly gay jockey ridg the UKCred: PA.

Statistilly, there has to be more gay jockeys out there. "And fairns ’s not dissiar other sports - hence why there are very few openly gay footballers and athlet. Around the same age as the Olympic gold medallist, he would bee Europe's only openly gay jockey as a teenager.

In July last year, an unnamed Premier League footballer revealed he was gay an open letter, shared wh Sky News by the Jt Fashanu Foundatn.

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I had to look to another sport to see a role mol as an out gay man, so if I n e my platform to show one other LGBT+ person racg they're not alone, I'll be very happy. Unrlg why this matters is a piece of rearch by a DiRSG member David Letts, who nclus that the sport “has had only one jockey who has been openly gay, whilst ridg, durg the sport’s extensive history”.

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