A Gay Nascar Fan Is Finding a Growing Audience Online

Dan82 · Nov 13, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/sports/autoracing/14gears.html?_r=1

Michael Myers grew up in Spartanburg, S.C., the middle of Nascar country, but his parents were not stock-car-racing fans, so he was not one, either. He went to his first race, the 1998 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, because he received free tickets.

But Myers said he became an unabashed fan over the next four or five years, and in September 2009, he started a racing Web site different from most others. Queers4Gears.com, he announced, would be an online home for gay Nascar fans.

Myers, 37, who lives in Las Vegas, is keeping his day job as a sales manager. But his Web site has found a modest audience of race fans, gay and straight. He said the site had averaged about 2,000 unique visitors a month.

“Nascar has more fans who are accepting of me being gay than gays have been accepting of me being a Nascar fan,” Myers said in a recent telephone interview...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/sports/autoracing/14gears.html?_r=1
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A Gay Nascar Fan Is Finding a Growing Audience Online

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