Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 525
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay a population is interested in.
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay a population is interested in.
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BY BEN NELSON<br />
PHOTOS BY: CHADWICK FOWLER<br />
DRAG RACE CHAMP<br />
TRAVIS SHUMAKE LIVES LIFE ON THE FAST TRACK<br />
“People cannot wrap their heads around<br />
drag racing being something that is not<br />
drag queen related,” reflects NHRA racer<br />
Travis Shumake.<br />
PHOTOS BY: SADIE GLEEN<br />
He has the distinction of being the fastest<br />
gay driver in motorsports history, and last<br />
month, Travis Shumake took several steps<br />
in his journey to being the first openly-gay<br />
owner of a major American motorsports<br />
team. He purchased his own hot rod (that<br />
he named Judith Light!), as well as a truck<br />
and race hauler, and moved into a race shop<br />
space in Brownsburg, Indiana.<br />
Home for Shumake remains NYC. He and<br />
his partner Daryl moved here five years ago<br />
and love that they can eat dinner at Arriba<br />
Arriba, finish a bottle of wine at Elmo and<br />
even dance at Hush without ever being<br />
recognized. We spoke with Travis Shumake<br />
from his apartment in the financial district.<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
Hello, Travis. Congratulations on<br />
being named the fastest LGBTQ+<br />
driver in motorsports history!<br />
My sport is the fastest, by almost<br />
100 MPH. It takes 24 NASCAR<br />
engines or 12 Formula One engines<br />
to match the power of my single<br />
engine.<br />
Who did you beat out?<br />
The next fastest driver would be<br />
Zach Herrin, who races at around<br />
200 MPH, so 120 MPH less than<br />
my 319 MPH record.
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