There are no openly gay players in any of the five major men's sports leagues in the United States. Not in football, baseball, hockey or soccer. None. But that's not because there are no gay players in those leagues — the reasons why so many athletes stay in the closet are complicated.
Ted Kian is a professor at Oklahoma State University, where his work is focused on sports media, especially in its framing of gender, sex, orientation, and identity. His paper on the media's reaction to Carl Nassib coming out was published in The Sport Journal.
