BY NICK POUST Freddy Niblack is the first openly gay driver the IndyCar Seri, but that's not all that f him. As is the se for so many
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- HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
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”The is the fact that Haywood is gay. Haywood, after all, didn’t jt hi pla sight at a time when homophobia was monplace and panic over the Aids epimic was reachg fever pch.
“I didn’t have any gay male role mols. I had to al wh all that stuff myself, work through all the problems of what would be like if I sudnly me out as gay.
THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
I’m gay and I jt don’t know where to go and what to do. ” And now that he’s out, he’s hopg he n be the gay male role mol that he never had. “I thk one of the problems that gay people face is how they are portrayed by televisn and by movi and the prs, ” he says.
“It’s always kd of a negative image of a gay person, and gay people are rol that are obvly gay.