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WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn. * men gymnastics gay *

Across our culture today, when a man “ out” so many immediately label him “gay gay gay! That Leyva don’t intify as gay, is still tryg to figure out how exactly he intifi, and is still willg to share all of this publicly should be empowerg to other men who are the same boat.

Weeks before the 2016 printial electn, he shared a msage of support for LGBTQ people, and trans rights particular, while wearg a “Make Ameri Gay Aga” T-shirt.

The men the sports are eher largely assumed to be gay, or their sexualy is unknown.

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Women face the same issu, but reverse: Ice hockey and softball players are assumed gay, figure skaters and gymnasts assumed straight.

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In the sports where athlet are assumed to be “gay, ” the prsure on athlet is to rist that label so they don’t nform to people’s assumptns.

The attus — that some sports are “gay” and some are “straight” — are changg, but they n’t change fast enough. So when I ntacted him 2014, askg if he’d like to talk about beg gay, he jt wasn’t ready.

People around him knew he was gay.

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Var posts across the ter speculated about him beg gay, or outright claimed .

I was obvly gay, everybody knew me as such, and I didn’t go postg about . That’s not regret how he felt, but how he was ma to feel by a system of ele men’s sports that driv gay athlet to qutn whether they n live life openly the public’s eye. While this is the first time he’s talkg publicly the media about beg gay, he did post-retirement share news of his weddg, and he’s been g #gaypri regularly on Instagram.

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Hashtags asi, Ruggeri’s life on social media isn’t “Gay gay gay. He offers a perspective of beg gay we simply don’t get a lot of, and one wh which many gay men will intify.

When Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop me out this week, was the first time an active player unr ntract to an NHL team had ever publicly acknowledged they were gay. Overnight, Prokop's announcement doubled the number of out gay athlet currently playg the untry's four major men's sports — football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

They also highlighted the arth of openly gay players the hypermascule world of U. Though many retired former players have e out, is more unual for male profsnal athlet to say they are gay while still playg.

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