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

Carl Nassib is one of only two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu – the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. Experts say homophobia sports begs at the youth level. * gayest sport ever *

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. Gay players on those teams may also e the language as a shield to hi their sexualy and nform wh their team, Denison said.

CROSSF IS THE NEW NTENR FOR GAYT SPORT ON THE PLA

“It’s totally a cult. Full stop.” That’s Jason Cobb, a 43-year-old lawyer om Denver, Colorado on the particular virtu of CrossF. Cobb is part of a growg muny of avid CrossFters—a sports-like work-out regime that’s creasgly appealg to gay men. Or at least, a certa type of gay man, om Manhattan to the Middle East.… * gayest sport ever *

“We often fd that male ach ntue to e homophobic language and teach nformy to this tough mascule athlete inty that don’t really exist, ” he said. As a child, before Davis unrstood what meant to be LGBTQ, he was already absorbg the norms beg set around him durg practice – that “beg gay those walls was unsafe, that [he] would be danger.

Insert someone who’s gay … and you fely want to have domn over this gay person, and you actually don’t want them your space.

Quali players necsary for succs football – domance, aggrsn and, ocsnally, vlence – are often associated wh homophobia and sexism, too. So whether or not a male athlete actually holds sexist or homophobic views, featur of both are often baked to his sport.

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. * gayest sport ever *

He beme the first openly gay player an NBA game when he was signed to a 10-game ntract wh the Brooklyn Nets Febary 2014. Almost 50 years earlier, there was Glenn Burke, a buddg Los Angel Dodgers star whose reer was cut short by homophobia the 1970s, argu Andrew Maraniss, an thor and special projects ordator wh Vanrbilt Universy Athletics, his book on Burke. The next season, Burke was trad to the Oakland A’s, where a ach lled him a homophobic slur and said he would “ntamate” the team, Maraniss wrote.

“He was a phenomenal athlete at the time when majory of straight sports fans the untry assumed that there’s no way there uld even be a gay player the game, let alone the most popular player on his team, ” Maraniss said. Denison said that progrs mt start at the youth level by curbg the e of gay slurs by ach and players and emphasizg a narrow fn of masculy.

THE 10 ATHLET’ NAM ARE SOME OF THE ‘GAYT’ SPORTS HISTORY

Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * gayest sport ever *

CrossF is the new ntenr for gayt sport on the pla Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 CrossF is the new ntenr for gayt sport on the pla“It’s totally a cult.

Cobb is part of a growg muny of avid CrossFters—a sports-like work-out regime that’s creasgly appealg to gay men.

CURLG: GAYT SPORT EVER?

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Or at least, a certa type of gay man, om Manhattan to the Middle is the week that the drone surveillance state beme real“CrossF fely attracts the type-A personaly—someone who lik stcture and l and measurg metrics, ” says Will Lanier, a 32-year-old New Yorker who found OUTWOD, a queer CrossF llective, 2011. Nearly 20 years sce s but, CrossF now has some 4 ln adherents worldwi, cludg a large number who are gay, such as Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski and Tan Jpg gave Vladimir Put a giant gold “bt iend” necklaceThe CrossF ethos, one predited on clivy, may have somethg to do wh .

'GAYT SPORT AMERI'

Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * gayest sport ever *

Not only do CrossF wele LGBT-foced work-out groups, the pany severed ti wh a gym this week that refed to host a Pri event—and fired s Chief Knowledge Officer for supportg the homophobic move. Then there’s the exclivy factor—more than half of all CrossFters have a hoehold e exceedg $150, 000, which allows drov of gay men to shell out hundreds of dollars a month for an Equox membership. This, bed wh s type-A siren ll, a public image unaaid to tout sweaty mascule flh, and, I would argue, s very bro-ns, and CrossF’s gay appeal is easier to cipher.

In an age of soul-suckg hookup apps and the wang populary of gay bars, CrossF provis a sense of muny and kship for gay men who feel prived of .

“I was drawn to CrossF durg my revery om dg and alhol abe, ” says Daniel Megson, a 32-year-old om Sydney, who found WOD OUT to une Atralia’s gay CrossFters.

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

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Some associate the “gayns” of CrossF to the obssn over male physil bety and perfectn often prevalent among gay men. I was disappoted to fd I was the only one to show up spanx tights, but I did notice a signifint gay prence and the stctor was an adorable gay named Matthew.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

1974 – Patricia Nell Warren’s book, The Front Runner, is published – A gay love story between a gay ach and a nner on his team. 1976 –Wter Olympics-John Curry, English figure skater, out, be first openly gay athlete to w Olympic gold. 1985 – Former Universy of Ptsburgh football player Ed Gallagher surviv suici attempt, dit life to battlg homophobia.

1988 – Dave Pallone, a gay Natnal League umpire, is fired bee of false charg that he is volved a gay teenaged sex rg.

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1991 – Philalphia Enquirer article about Rene Portland’s anti-lbian policy – Marks shift media verage: Homophobia is the problem and Portland’s policy is wrong.

ATHLET WHO ARE GAY

1998 – Mike Mka, a gay man and former llegiate track and field ach, is named the athletic director at Oberl College beg the first openly gay male ever that posn. 1998 – Brian Orser, former world champn figure skater and Olympic silver medalist, out as a gay man a palimony su filed by an ex-lover. 1999 – publish first web page voted to sports news and rmatn for gay sports fans and athlet- iated by Cyd Zeigler and Jim Buzski.

2002 – The Natnal Center for Lbian Rights iat the Homophobia Sports Project to provi legal and advocy support for athlet and ach discrimated agast on the basis of the sexual orientatn or genr inty. 2003 – Universy of Pennsylvania founds the first stunt-athlete group foced on elimatg homophobia athletics, Penn Athlet Agast Homophobia (PATH).

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