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

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
• 'GAYT SPORT AMERI'
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS
• PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
• ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. The 1975 bassist Ross MacDonald then walked over to Healy and the two engaged a prolonged kiss on the mouth, prott to Malaysia’s anti-gay legislatn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Former Jaguar center Brandon Lr praised workg wh Maxen, who reached out to openly gay NFL player Carl Nassib 2022. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen told Outsports on Thursday that he is gay, makg him the first publicly out male ach major men’s pro sports the Uned Stat.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.

He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.

The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg. This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage.

Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay.

Four athlet om the Uned Stat jo Canadian Prokop breakg down barriers for gay and bisexual athlet big-time sports. Prokop lled the ont office of the Nashville Predators to let them know he’s gay, then wh their support he me out to the world. But when you tune to the Wter Olympics, not one of the figure skatg ntenrs any disciple (sgl, pairs, dance) will be an out gay man.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

There will be gay men petg Tur, to be sure -- cludg some who nsir themselv to be out their personal liv -- but not one who will say so on the public rerd.

EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED

And do that mean nothg has changed what Jon Jackson, an openly gay skatg judge, lls "the gayt sport Ameri"?

Tryg not to be emed gay skatg requir behavr rangg om the overt, such as datg women, to tails so subtle that they affect the very way the skater mov his limbs while puttg himself out there to be judged. This across every discsn I've had wh a gay skater, that they really feel that they have to prent themselv as a 'passable' mascule skater, " said Jackson.

So gay skaters eher e out long after their petive reers are over, as 1979 world champn Randy Gardner (wh pair partner Tai Babilonia) jt did January, or when they're so far off the radar screen that their feratns aren't monorg them, as happened whRudy Galdo 1995 when he was nsired a has-been. What's changed sce 1996, though, is that many of the Olympic-eligible gay skaters nsir themselv to be fully out their personal liv.

'GAYT SPORT AMERI'

"Wh the rk environment, for the most part, I'm noticg more and more that the ach, the fellow skaters are all very acceptg and fortable and not the least b bothered by gay men.

He se chang even among closeted gay ach of olr generatns, who n be some of the most vol crics of any skatg that appears the least b femme. "Those ach, who were acctomed to havg to pass [as straight], were unfortable maybe 20 years ago wh too much of the g out of gay skaters, bee threatened what they created to make a safe environment for themselv, " said Jackson. "But I've seen more and more ach e around to the acceptance that this is part of our sport and the young gay men are valuable to the sport.

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

Figure Skatg's rponsibily to step up and say that this is not harmful to our image, acknowledge the fact that everybody else knows that there are gay men figure skatg, and they love . Lorrie Kim has mataed Rabow Ice, a se about gay issu figure skatg, sce 1998, and has talked to dozens of gay figure skaters her work as a skatg journalist.

Several players on this team are openly gay, as has been the se wh recent World Cup and Olympic teams. 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.

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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Rory Magrath, a rearcher at Solent Universy England, has suggted that 's possible gay men are unrreprented 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.

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

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.

PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?

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. David Kopay, a former NFL nng back who me out 1975, was unable to land a profsnal achg job after he announced publicly that he was gay.

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.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

The Las Vegas Rairs fensive end is now jt one of two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu (the Natnal Football League, Natnal Basketball Associatn, Major League Baseball and the Natnal Hockey League). Homophobic language is still a regular feature of playg on a boys’ sports team the US and abroad, Denison’s rearch shows – one of his studi found that more than half of the ice hockey and gby players he terviewed said they’d ed slurs. Regular exposure to slurs or stereotyp eventually rerc among players that their succs as an athlete is tied to an ia of masculy that exclus gay men, he said.

Denison scribed what he lls a “cycle of excln” that begs when a boy hears ach or olr players e homophobic language and observ a “posive rponse” to that behavr – maybe they lgh at each other, or the ach don’t challenge them, he said. That sends the msage that homophobic language is harmls and OK to e – and cements the assumptn that all members of the team are heterosexual.