EVAN DARLING
OPENLY GAY NASCAR DRIVER
IS MAKING LEFT TURNS WITH THE RIGHT–WING If there is a less gay friendly sport than NASCAR driving, I don’t know
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what it could be. It could be argued of course, that there aren’t ANY sports that are totally gay friendly, with the obvious exception of figure skating. Still, of the “Big 4” sports, Basketball, Football, Baseball, and Hockey, how many openly gay players can you name? Oh sure, there are a few here and there who have come out once they retired, but for the most part the locker room closet door remains tightly locked. Now, let’s take a look at the auto sports. We can express the expected number of out gay
race car drivers in the following mathematical formula: Homophobia in most sports = rednecks + beer/brain cells to number of missing teeth.
Once you plug in real numbers we can expect one that is somewhere south of zero. Surpris- ingly, in the car racing category this isn’t the case, because there is at least one openly gay professional driver out there. Evan Darling, 42, has been a racer for 16 years and has won multiple divisional titles and
has competed in both sprint and endurance races. As a kid he raced BMX bikes, moving up to motorcycles, then graduating to cars, eventually joining the racing body known as the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). His impressive record includes wins at Daytona, Sebring, and a top 10 placement at the Koni Grand Am Challenge. Darling isn’t just a driver like pretty boy Jeff Gordon, he’s also an ASE certified master technician.
by john bilow
“It’s very possible that kids who grow up in NASCAR-loving families, may not have access to cable networks like LOGO. He’s quite aware of the potential impact he may have as a role model for LGBT kids and teens, that’s why The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization targeting LGBT youth, has been one of his sponsors.
” MARCH 2011 | RAGE monthly 53
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