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Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Paperback, New edition)
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Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Communication, Sport, and Society, 1
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Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay
identity are more visible, discussed, debated-and even celebrated.
However, in an era in which the sports closet is heralded as the
last remaining stronghold of heterosexuality, the terrain for the
gay athlete remains contradictory at best. Gay athletes in American
team sports are thus living a paradox: told that sport represents
the "final closet" in American culture while at the same time
feeling ostracized, labeled a "distraction" for teams, dubbed
locker room "problems," and experiencing careers which are halted
or cut short altogether. Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male
Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building
upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out
experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive,
powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media. Featuring in-depth
interviews with out-athletes such as Jason Collins, Dave Kopay,
Billy Bean and John Amaechi; media gatekeepers from outlets like
ESPN and USA Today; and league representatives from Major League
Baseball and the National Football League, this book explores one
of the starkest juxtapositions in athletics: there are no active
out players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL, yet the number of
athletes coming out at virtually every other level of sport is
unprecedented. Interviews are fused with qualitative media analysis
of coming out stories and informed by decades of literature on the
unique intersection of sport, media, and sexual identity.
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