David Gay - Jockey Profile

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY JOCKEY FDS NICHE HORSE RACG AND HAD A FLG AS A DRAG QUEEN
• EUROPE’S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY SAYS OTHER RIRS WON’T E OUT FOR FEAR OF G THEIR REERS
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• TOM DALEY SPIRED JACK DUERN AS EUROPE'S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY HORSE RACG
• JACK DUERN: UK'S ONLY OUT GAY JOCKEY LIGHTED TO MAKE RETURN TO RACE RIDG AFTER TWO-YEAR ABSENCE

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.

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

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. 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.

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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”.

Not that any of mand to know about a jockey’s orientatn but the very obv spicn is that the number would be a lot higher than one if was clear that openly gay jockeys would not suffer any kd of Letts not, most jockeys are grapplg wh var prsur most of the time, startg wh weight, travel and money. "Gay Man's Gui To Atralian Football's Hottt Hunks. Most of the plats e om gay men, who say giv them a bad name.

TOM DALEY SPIRED JACK DUERN AS EUROPE'S ONLY OPENLY GAY JOCKEY HORSE RACG

It's no big al and our years of dog Outsports, seems that our straight rears get this while the biggt plats e om gay men. Jockstraps are sometim referred to as gay unrwear, but all typ of men wear jocks due to the excellent support they give. 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. 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.

It has been nsired that this mixed-genred environment uld help diffe the hypermasculy which may ntribute to the high levels of homophobia still evint many male-only sports (Dashper, 2012). However, the translatn of this overt acceptance of homosexualy is ls evint horseracg, which uld be attributable to the differenc what is close to genr segregatn between the two sportg dtri. In fact, throughout the sport’s extensive history, Brish horseracg has had only one male jockey who has been openly gay whilst ridg, Jack Duern.

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

However, the rponse behd the scen was different, as Jack explaed an terview 2018: ‘I lost so many ris off the olr traers who stopped g me as soon as they read about my sexualy’ (Lane-Godey, 2018) evince of perceived and realised prejudice towards gay jockeys is therefore a very real nsiratn for the sport and somethg which needs to be addrsed orr to improve the environment for sexual mori wh the dtry. His theory of Inclive Masculy acunts for fluctuatg levels of cultural homophobia (Anrson, 2009) and suggts that an environment of rced homophobia, as monstrated to be the se Bra today, societal views are more diverse (Anrson & McGuire, 2010).

The theory has been examed extensively wh sportg environments and has monstrated the changg landspe wh this prevly rigid arena (Adams, 2011)—cludg studi wrtlg, football and mixed martial arts (Cashmore & Cleland, 2012; Channon & Matthews, 2015; Michael, 2015) as well as analysg aspects of male reprentatn on social media (Morris & Anrson, 2015; Sats, 2017) theory has also been utilised the equtrian field to show that gay men are now beg both more visible and accepted prevly hostile domas, such as the sportg and ral muni enpassed equtrianism (Dashper, 2012). If you knew a lleague was gay/lbian/bisexual, how would your opn be impacted?