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

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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.

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GAY LLEGE SOFTBALL PLAYER NAVIGAT AN ACCEPTG TEAM AND SILENT FAY

We know of 174 gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr athlet who have e out om the ACC, SEC, Pac-12, Big 12 and Big Ten. That’s a lot. * percentage of gay college softball players *

All my life I had been exposed to passive-aggrsive homophobia. Her supporters acced nservativ of tryg to damage her chanc by whisperg that she was gay.

None of this particularly surprised a sport that has wrtled wh the issue — If you play, you’re probably gay —for s. “It is one of those ltle touchstone thgs, ” said Rosalyn Bugg, an official wh the Greater Los Angel Softball Assn., found as a slow-pch league for gays. Several ach Southern California timate that more than 50% of the players were gay at the time.

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“I’ve never seen so many gay people my life, ” said Drabecki, who now ach at Burbank High. ” By then, the game had bee a central part of the culture, said Pat Griff, thor of “Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lbians and Homophobia Sport.

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

” Gay women uld feel accepted at the ballpark. “Softball beg a phemism for homosexual is pretty funny, ” said Bugg, the recreatnal league official. “But not so funny to a lot of the women I play wh who are not homosexual.

” As straight players grew more worried about beg labeled gay, the gam took on a different look. “My straight teammat enuraged me almost more than my gay teammat to speak out, ” she said. The immediate ditn is that they’re gay.

” “It’s the bone marrow of women’s sports, ” she said, “the whole issue that sports will turn you gay or sports have a disproportnate number of lbians. ” This dynamic leads to negative recg — llege ach tryg to fluence prospects by whisperg that rival programs are pervasively gay — and ncerns among parents. I wasn’t an athlete, but I was a 20-year-old gay kid g out to his iends, his fay, and his at brothers.

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