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- Title
How Much Longer Will Major League Baseball Stay in the Closet?
- Authors
Dreier, Peter
- Abstract
The article focuses on the lack of openly gay major league baseball (MSB) players, and examines the reasons behind it The author notes that while there are financial and personal costs to coming out, the strong current of fundamentalist Christianity and lingering strands of explicit homophobia in baseball may also make it difficult for players. It also mentions that Major League Baseball and individual teams have taken steps to make baseball more inclusive for LGBTQ employees and fans.
- Subjects
GAY baseball players; MAJOR League Baseball (Organization); SOCIAL life &; customs of gay people; GAY rights; LGBTQ+ employees
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article