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Originally Posted by Oberbrunner
Hello Friends,
I would like to have an open discussion about LGBT athletes. Currently there is no known LGBT athletes on any roster in any of the four major sports leagues in the United States. That is assuming you consider the four major leagues NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, there could be the case that MLS is one of the four and could potentially become the biggest league in the future. Fortunately there is a few LGBT athletes on MLS teams.
Also it's encouraging to see WNBA being so open towards LGBT athletes.
While it is also encouraging to see athletes like Michael Sam and Jason Collins announce that they are homosexuals, it is also discouraging to see that coming out as gay essentially ended Jason Collins career and Michael Sam has yet to play a single snap in a regular season NFL team despite being the player of the year in the SEC his Senior year.
I believe we will see LGBT athletes become common in the future, but I hope it's sooner rather than later.
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I think you may be right, it should be. Amazing that it's taken so long for it to even get to this stage.
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Anyway like everything else as soon as a few come out more and more will come out and it'll soon be socially acceptable (that the right term?) for a pro and it won't harper him/her/it?. You'll still get the odd bigot and that I don't think will ever change (not in our life time anyway.).
Fans are still racist to players and likewise players are racist to fellow players. It's a minority but still goes on.
It's taken decades to get to this stage with racism and only really recently that LGBT has gained mainstream media attention.
There is still a LONG way to go before players will feel comfortable about coming out.
Last edited by kingweed; 04-13-2017 at 05:18 PM.