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Contents:
- MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
- MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS
MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers?” Actually, there are more than you thk. * motocross gay *
He talks wh them about his longtime partner, his management pany (promotg motorcycle racers), and beg openly gay the sport.
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THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
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And as we've said for years, when an athlete out, spe homophobic ments he may have heard the past, his g out chang the dynamic of the team or locker room or sport:. It’s very rare I’ve ever heard anyone act or speak wh a homophobic tone at the track.
Even then, the person who ma the ment poor taste would ually apologize later when word gets around to them that I or someone else the paddock is fact gay. Photography by Gold & Goose Today’s MotoGP prs nference advance of this weekend’s Grand Prix of Spa was ma a ltle ls dull when the subject of qutng strayed om the ual racg and racg polics to a topic that h mastream sports media this week after NBA player Jason Colls’ announcement that he is gay.
MOSW GAY CISE CLUBS
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Colls is referred to as beg the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport. ’s David Emmett asked the panel of rirs: “Last week Jason Colls, an NBA player, admted he was homosexual. Now there are no openly homosexual MotoGP rirs.
Are people aaid of g out gay or are you jt more really terted women? It’s never me out that anybody is gay.
“For the people who ask me on Twter or whatever if they are wag this is the time that they will know I’m not gay, ” Je Lorenzo said.