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Updating the Outcome : Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Coming Out in Educationally Based Sport Teams

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In this article I report findings from interviews with 26 openly gay male athletes who came out between 2008 and 2010. I compare their experiences to those of 26 gay male athletes who came out between 2000 and 2002. The athletes in the 2010 cohort have had better experiences after coming out than those in the earlier cohort, experiencing less heterosexism and maintaining better support among their teammates. I place these results in the context of inclusive masculinity theory, suggesting that local cultures of decreased homophobia created more positive experiences for the 2010 group.

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Gender & Society

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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Language

English

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08912432

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Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.p. 250-268

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Gay
Homophobia
Coming out
Homosexual

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