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- Title
Sport journalists’ views on gay men in sport, society and within sport media.
- Authors
Kian, Edward M.; Anderson, Eric; Vincent, John; Murray, Ray
- Abstract
In this research, interviews were conducted with 10 US newspaper sport journalists to gauge their experiences and attitudes toward issues and coverage of open and closeted gay men in sport, sport media, and within society. Concerning closeted athletes, most of these journalists are reluctant to report on athletes’ non-normative sexual orientation, even if that means a competitor could scoop them on a story about a major athlete being gay. Most of these reporters believe that US sport fans are ready for openly gay athletes in professional men’s team sports, but that locker rooms might be slower to adapt. Despite these progressive attitudes and more than 220 years of collective professional media experience, none of these journalists ever worked with a sports reporter who was openly gay to all of their colleagues. Therefore, it was not surprising that most believed sport journalism would be a challenging career for openly gay men, particularly if those individuals also did not conform to gender-normative notions of masculinity.
- Subjects
SPORTSCASTERS; GAY athletes; MASCULINITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; SPORTS journalism
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 8, p895
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1012690213504101