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.
Contents:
- THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
- GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
- WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT
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- PRO VOLLEYBALL PLAYER DENNIS DEL VALLE OUT AS GAY
THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL
* why is volleyball a gay sport *
Volleyball beme the way for Magdaong to fish his tn and as a man who openly intifi as gay, the sport beme his pathway to equaly opportuny and genr equaly.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
I uld hear my neighbour scream hysterilly when our women's volleyball team beat Japan to be crowned Asian Champns last Saturday. It was simply the bt game the tournament, and the long-legged ladi ma the natn and their fans _ a lot of them gay _ proud, pecially me. * why is volleyball a gay sport *
In an terview wh Fox Sports Asia, Ruel Pascua, ach for the UE Red Warrrs, admted that “there are fely schools that do not accept gay athlet” but that and his own perspective has changed.
He don’t ll discrimatn or anythg more harmful, but there was a belief that was so wispread that wasn’t qutned: “Gay men n’t play basketball. The Philipp has a reputatn om beg “gay-iendly” untry ked by the populary of many LGBT celebri, fashn signers.
GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
The twklg lights and signag of gay bars le the streets of major ci like Quezon Cy and Manila. In jt about every village across the untry, gay and transgenr bety pageants are held town halls jt a few blocks away om a Church. “We still have to ntend wh the stereotype of gay men as beg predatory, ” sighed Jacs Sampayan, who put together a muny volleyball club wh the help of his iends.
He and numero other such players, both social and petive gam, share a very siar sentiment when on a volleyball urt: You n be as gay as you want, as butch as you want, and, most importantly, as much of your te self as you want. There is a reason why volleyball holds the unofficial tle of the most popular gay sport and has a very anized erng body, the North Ameri Gay Volleyball Associatn (NAGVA) wh over 4, 000 members, 50 official tournaments and 30 leagu. Comg om a much smaller cy wh virtually no LGBT volleyball, Clayton was very happy to disver a super work of gay volleyball San Francis.
” Even though LGBT volleyball is large and prevalent the Bay Area, Balls of Furry currently offers the only gay league (startg this month).
WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT
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.
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Though many retired former players have e out, is more unual for male profsnal athlet to say they are gay while still playg.
Gay male athlet face cultural barriers Part of the reason for the lack of out gay players men's profsnal sports uld be that there are jt fewer of them the game. Rory Magrath, a rearcher at Solent Universy England, has suggted that 's possible gay men are unrreprented profsnal sports.
PRO VOLLEYBALL PLAYER DENNIS DEL VALLE OUT AS GAY
"Gay men are a fe rource, so they n't exist great numbers every quarter, " Magrath told "Gay men are overreprented some areas, and as a nsequence are gog to be unrreprented sports. That uld be due to the mascule culture at the center of the major sports, experts say, creatg an environment that is ls welg to gay athlet.
Magrath helped thor a study that found that male athlet who me out as gay while still playg sports were largely met wh acceptance by their teammat. Robbie Rogers ma history 2013 when he took the field for the Los Angel Galaxy after as the first openly gay player profsnal U.
NBA player Jason Colls, who me out 2013 while he was still playg the league, later told NPR " went great" when he scribed the perd after announcg he was gay. After Michael Sam beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL 2014, then-Miami Dolphs safety Don Jon tweeted "horrible, " rultg penalti and a spensn.