Cycling is gay New posts Trending Search forums What's new Thread starter Thorn Cycling Start date Home Forums In May 2021, I wrote a feature questioning why, among the more than 900 male cyclists employed on UCI professional teams, not a single one was openly gay or bisexual.Just weeks earlier, pro BMX rider Corey Walsh had come out as gay, and by October, Australian footballer Josh Cavallo had get the world's first openly same-sex attracted male professional footballer. The accompanying year, Britain saw its control breakthrough when Blackpool FC's Jake Daniels came out. If even football could open up and accept gay players, surely it was only a matter of time for cycling. Yet here we are four years later and, in male professional route cycling, representation remains stuck at zero.It is statistically almost unachievable that there are no queer pros. The latest sexual orientation data from the ONS show that 10.4% of people aged 16-24, and 6.3% of those aged 25-34, identify as female homosexual, gay or bisexual. If we apply a conservative estimate of 6% for pro cyclists - most of whom fall within the above age range - at least 50 male pros are gay or bi. Yet not one has revealed it publicly. You may like There has been one watershed event. Just two months after my feature – Why is the peloton hiding its Cycling Memes and Jokes Peter_Graham6354Wasn’t intending to comment on this further but as you’ve @ me in thread @Chris1982There is another group represented in that photo that I don’t feel particularly easy laughing at being ‘hated’. Is the joke ‘when being a cyclist doesn’t make you hated enough make it worse by being openly LGBT’?That’s why I asked the interrogate what is the joke?I don’t think, although I could be wrong, that people would be cozy hating on other defined characteristics but it’s ok to hate cyclists, vegans, LGBT? Anything else you would be comfortable adding to the list?I would prefer to try and make this forum as inclusive as possible. We are all here because we love riding bikes but this joke/meme comes over as ‘well we ride bikes but at least I’m not vegan or gay’. I’m sure it wasn’t the intention of the poster but I’m comfortable with how I’ve responded to it.10 Likesnotdanellis6355Hang one when did anyone say anything about him being gay?1 LikePbase6356I’m not certain this is a man. This is a slippery slope we’re going down and it’s a joke thread. I’d prefer to all approve that it’s humor that can Re: Phillip Schofield announcementPostby merseymouth » Morning all, I ponder I have a problem? I tally myself as a cyclist, moved by wheels, but I don't ride a Bicycle! Used to then I start a more deviant fetish in being which really suited my odd character. So I must declare my obsession which has changed my life for the good & that of my wife of 45 years? "I Am A Tricyclist"!There, done it, formally enter out, I am turned on by sitting atop 3 wheels. I can happily move between variants, normal, if I can position it like that with a unpartnered wheel at the front & two at the rear, but I contain been known to switch my imagine to an oddity type, Kendrick, with two wheels up front, one trailing behind.Luckily, before my wife had a work accident she to threw a leg over a trike frame, she had two, plus outings on our "Let's Do It Together" machine, a tandem trike! Whilst our daughter actually owns a descent over machine, bicycle, she has left it in my workshop?I am seriously worried about that girl? Does she have a variant gene which will blight her life? The poor neglected machine is designate "Tinkerbell", though it isn't pink.So, there got it of Popcorning gayDublin gay neighborhoodMbappe is gayBlack gay xxx sitesWas orson welles gay