{"id":309,"date":"2014-05-12T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:06:52","slug":"michael-sam-sport-and-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/05\/12\/michael-sam-sport-and-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sam, Sport, and Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>2014 has been a triumphant year for gay professional athletes. Earlier this year,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/24\/sports\/basketball\/after-signing-with-nets-jason-collins-becomes-first-openly-gay-nba-player.html?_r=1\"> Jason Collins was the first openly gay player to sign a contract with the NBA.<\/a> More recently,<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/draft2014\/story\/_\/id\/10913755\/2014-nfl-draft-michael-sam-drafted-st-louis-rams-seventh-round\"> Michael Sam became first openly gay player drafted into the NFL<\/a>. In a team sporting culture where camaraderie and success have traditionally been tied to masculine overtones and homophobic gestures, these and other moves have undoubtedly ushered in a new era of professional sports\u00ad\u00ad&#8211;one in which a greater number of athletes, teams, and leagues are willing to take a stance against the exclusion of players based on their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<h5>Collins and Sam are bringing to light a public issue that sociologists have seen coming in a wide range of sports and social settings.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchester.ac.uk\/academicdepartments\/sports-studies\/Staffprofiles\/EricAnderson\/Pages\/EricAnderson.aspx\">Eric Anderson<\/a>. 2011. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericandersonphd.com\/resources\/2011%20Updating%20the%20Outcome%20Gay%20Athletes,%20Straight%20Teams,%20and%20Coming%20out%20at%20the%20End%20of%20the%20Decade%20%5BGender%20%26%20Society%5D.pdf\">Updating the Outcome: Gay Atheletes, Straight Teams, and Coming Out in Educationally Based Sport Teams.<\/a>&#8221; <em>Gender and Society<\/em> 25(2): \u00a0250-268<\/li>\n<li>Eric Anderson and Rachael Bullingham. 2013. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/irs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/06\/12\/1012690213490520\">Openly Lesbian Team Sport Athletes in an Era of Decreasing Homohysteria.<\/a>&#8221; <em>International Review for the Sociology of Sport \u00a0<\/em>49(2)<em>:\u00a0<\/em>1-14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>These athletes&#8217; stories are a particularly important development in a social arena which is traditionally dominated by men and masculinity.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003528\">Michael A. Messner<\/a>. 2007.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-4464-out-of-play.aspx\">Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Albany, NY: SUNY Press.<\/li>\n<li>Varda Burstyn. 1999. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/The-Rites-of-Men-Manhood-Politics-and-the-Culture-of-Sport.html\"><em>The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport.<\/em> <\/a>Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These trends also reflect broader shifts in gender and sexuality over the past few years.\u00a0For more information on shifting norms regarding sexual orientation in other institutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/papers\/same-sex-different-attitudes\/\">check out Kathleen Hull\u2019s recent TSP white paper<\/a> on the changing public perception of same-\u00adsex marriage in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- TSP testing --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 234px; height: 60px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4670099812817063\" data-ad-slot=\"1069646635\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 has been a triumphant year for gay professional athletes. Earlier this year, Jason Collins was the first openly gay player to sign a contract with the NBA. More recently, Michael Sam became first openly gay player drafted into the NFL. In a team sporting culture where camaraderie and success have traditionally been tied to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1951,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13],"tags":[38543,38545,38541,50],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2014\/05\/3890007962_1f69b89622_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}