Why There Few Openly Gay Athlet In Men's Profsnal Sports : NPR

Contents:

• GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
• THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL
• CONFSN OF GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER – “I WASN’T SURE WHAT NSEQUENC OF G OUT WOULD BE”
• HOW GAY BEACH VOLLEYBALL PLAYER TIKTOK TO BUILD A MUNY
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• GAY COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER US CLASS PROJECT TO COME OUT
• PRO VOLLEYBALL PLAYER DENNIS DEL VALLE OUT AS GAY
• WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT
• COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL ACH SAYS SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS ASKED HIM TO NOUNCE BEG GAY OR LEAVE HIS JOB

GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT

Wh volleyball makg headl everywhere this week, brought back memori of one of the most groundbreakg Thai gay films, The Iron Ladi, or Satree Lek, released 2000.

When me out 13 years ago, was screened at many film ftivals around the globe, many of them LGBT-orientated, and also played a part bunkg the ia that Thai cema is all about "gays and ghosts" _ a gross generalisatn.

THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL

Directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, The Iron Ladi is based on the te story of a volleyball team om Lampang that prised gay and transgenr members, and only one heterosexual player, that won the Thai Volleyball Natnal Champnship 1996. In the film, we are troduced to each member of the team _ om an open transvte to a baret showgirl, an out gay ary man and a closeted Thai-Che gay, and a straight team pta who is a key character, reprentg the many people who aren't happy to be around gays until he gets to know his teammat better and learns how they stggle to fight for their dreams.

CONFSN OF GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER – “I WASN’T SURE WHAT NSEQUENC OF G OUT WOULD BE”

However, was the first film that tackled the genr issue om a different perspective, where gay characters were the centre of the story which allowed them a strong voice. Sce 2000, there's been a number of betiful and scere LGBT-themed films produced Thailand (though still many others that ntue to explo gay antics as cheap humour), and openly gay and transgenr figur today are much more visible and admired than before.

Parya is one of our first gay sports celebri, and people learned to like her not jt bee of her sexualy or the "eccentric" look of a boxer wh red lips and pated fgernails but bee of her skill and ferocy as a fighter.

HOW GAY BEACH VOLLEYBALL PLAYER TIKTOK TO BUILD A MUNY

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.

To this day, if I have to try out, 's a nerve-wrackg experience, and 's been 24 seasons … I thk all of have stori about our relatnship wh sports and our relatnship wh beg gay sports or queer sports, so we never unrtimate how much of a roller aster that n be. At the begng of an terview, Voth, who was the first openly gay natnal athlete om Canada, strsed that he did not want to disclose the team or the untry where his ntract was retracted. 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. 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.

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

"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. 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. There are key differenc the cultur of men's and women's athletics While few active players the major men's sports leagu have e out, many female profsnal athlet have said publicly that they're gay, om U.

Ma Margraf, a bisexual gymnast, said she heard an anti-gay slur at BYU for the first time the summer of 2021, when she was a newly enrolled hman at the Mormon school Provo, Utah, and  a r wh two BYU baseball drove past a church where people were wavg the pri flag and holdg posters support of gay rights, acrdg to Margraf, who said the scene prompted one of the baseball players to act. BYU said s vtigatn unvered no evince rroboratg the allegatns, but about five weeks later, members of the Universy of Southern California women's soccer team ma siar than two weeks after the volleyball match, BYU stunts were among protters who yelled homophobic slurs at LGBTQ stunts durg an off-mp gatherg, acrdg to an Associated Prs report and other media outlets. Siraga, who after his sophomore year transferred to the Universy of California, San Diego, and has graduated, also told USA TODAY Sports, "So much of what occurs (at BYU) is jt like vert homophobia or racism.

In addn to Margraf, three gay former BYU athlet spoke to USA TODAY her hman year, Margraf said, she had "full fah'' the athletic partment was tryg to foster change when held trag that addrsed cln and diversy. "It’s te that this vio did not end up gettg posted, but was not bee of the e of the word 'gay, ' " BYU Athletics said a rpond to the dichotomy of a mp where LGBTQ romantic behavr is forbidn but Margraf was asked to rerd a vio about the clive environment at the school, sayg  a statement, "All stunts at BYU have a shared primary inty as sons and dghters of God.

GAY COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER US CLASS PROJECT TO COME OUT

”Siraga, the former BYU volleyball player, said when Olmstead objected to Stanley's cloth Olmstead also mentned cloth worn by Benjam Patch, a gay volleyball player who was an All-Amerin at BYU and graduated 2017. This article origally appeared on Oliveira, a men’s volleyball player for Cardal Strch Universy Milwkee, is typil of a type of gay athlete we are seeg more and more — fortably out on mp and on his team but not yet ready to e out publicly. Durg the Olympics his native Brazil, he wrote a lumn on beg a gay athlete that untry g only his first Facebook, I asked Oliveira about why he cid to e his class project to e out did the project e about?

It is a small project, but was done wh people who wanted to make the had to do a fal project for this class, and our profsor Carol Hetzel said that our fal project should be somethg that would help the LGBT+ muny some as athlet noticed how homophobia sports has never been an issue discsed our universy. We don’t have a sgle and out proud gay soccer player over there, and I thk this is somethg that prov how n be really be sry and also dangero to e out as gay a untry wh such a mascule culture like Brazil.

PRO VOLLEYBALL PLAYER DENNIS DEL VALLE OUT AS GAY

We had the chance to make this project and we really wanted to help promote the change, so future generatns that e to our stutn know that three straight and one gay athlete got together and started a nversatn that might have promoted a safe place for them to be who they are wh no hope that this project chang the way some stutns view gay athlet and start embracg them spe their sexual orientatn or genr Oliveira n be reached via email (), on Instagram(@16fegto) or more om OutSports, check out the stori:Popular the CommunyYou May Like. Del Valle, 31, who is om San Juan, Puerto Ri, and who played llege at Penn State, told the 24 Hours webse that he cid to e out to show that gay athlet n play at ele levels. “I pecially didn’t want to break the chemistry of the team, that uld bee weird the locker room for some, that they image thgs, fixate on my homosexualy, no longer dare to go to shower my prence, or whatever.

Another argument is that gay men aren’t drawn to sport like gay women, but I personally know several athlet different sports at the hight levels the world who are not publicly out.

WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT

Inoke Tonga said a Facebook post that admistrators asked him if he posted about beg gay on social media and then told him “they n’t put the kids at risk by havg me ont of them. Tonga told CNN, and said the origal post, that the urse of the 90-mute meetg last Thursday, he was told the stunts’ “parents pay too much money to have their kids be ached and tght by someone like you who intifi as a gay man. Ultimately, Tonga says, he was given the optn to “nounce beg gay, ” which he refed to do and was told that would lead to him beg released om the school as a ach, he wrote on Facebook.

COLORADO HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL ACH SAYS SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS ASKED HIM TO NOUNCE BEG GAY OR LEAVE HIS JOB

While sports rema closely aligned to hegemonic masculy (English, 2017) there is a shiftg culture emergg toward acceptance of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) people wh society; sport beg a domant area of participatn for the LGBTIQ+ muny (Ker and Krane, 2006; Ensign et al., 2011; Anrson et al., 2012; Oswalt, and Vargas., 2013; Cleland, 2014; Channon and Matthews, 2015; Piedra et al., 2017). Rearch on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer/Qutng + sport experienc largely emerge om ele level, llege (Eng, 2008; Anrson et al., 2016) and profsnal settgs (Billgs et al., 2015). In Atralia, recent rearch on genr, sexism and homophobia sport dit that homophobia and sexism are signifint strsors for LGBTIQ+ people wh muny sport (Symons et al., 2017).

Engagg actns tend to distance onelf om the spicn of beg gay, Anrson not that among men, homohysteria is typilly manifted by fleeg om femized behavr, cludg physil ntact wh other men or showg signs of affectn and emotn, while also matag homophobic disurse. Homohysteria helps to expla how genred patterns of behavr—both wh and outsi of sport settgs—play out relatn to shiftg levels of societal homophobia, particularly highlightg how homophobia n affect the behavr of dividuals who may not necsarily be homophobic themselv (P. However, this needs to be led by social, cultural and legislative procs (Piedra et al., 2017), pecially as homohysteria n be part of anizatnal or stutnal culture, such as sport (Anrson and Bullgham, 2015).