Eric Anderson 
In the Game [EPUB ebook] 
Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity

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Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.

2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes, Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes navigate this, and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences, Anderson shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school sports, where the atmosphere of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ often exists, to the unique circumstances that gay athletes encounter in professional team sports, this book analyzes the agency that openly gay athletes possess to change their environments.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

Overview

Outline


1. Warming Up


The Link between Sport and Homophobia

Methods

2. Sport, Masculinity, and Hegemonic Oppression


One Athlete’s Story: Dale, High School Football Player

Masculinity as Hegemonic Oppression

Masculine Capital, Orthodox Masculinity, and Hegemonic Masculinity

Maintaining Masculinity: Homophobia at Work

Hegemonic Masculinity in School Culture

Problematizing Sport Culture

Sporting Hegemony and Gay Athletes

3. The Relationship between Gay Athletes and Sport


One Athlete’s Story: Aaron, Closeted NHL Player

The Relationship between Gay Athletes and Sport

Gay Athletes: Challenging Masculine Domination

Representation of Gay Athletes in Sport

4. Systems of Masculine Reproduction


One Athlete’s Story: Terry, Retired Closeted NFL Player

The Structure of Sport

Sport as a Near-Total Institution

Sport as a Gender-Segregated Institution

Sport as a Closed-Loop Institution

5. Coming Out in Sport


One Athlete’s Story: Blake, High School Basketball Player

Fear of Coming Out

Coming Out in Sport

Feelings of Liberation

Reverse Relative Deprivation

Homophobic Discourse

The Evolving Coming Out Story

6. Mitigating Gay Stigma


One Athlete’s Story: Bob, Collegiate Track Star

Using Masculine Capital to Mitigate the Stigma of Being Gay

Increasing Masculine Capital through Performance

The Effect of Masculine Capital on Coming Out

Adopting All Other Tenets of Orthodox Masculinity

7. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Resisting a Culture of Gay Athleticism


One Athlete’s Story: John, High School Basketball Player

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

The Price of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

8. Factors That Influence Acceptance


One Team’s Story: The Troubadours Cheerleading Team

Factors That Influence Homosexual Acceptance

The Coach

Social Support Networks

Institutional Attitudes

The Intersectionality of Race and Coming Out

Nature and Origin of the Sport

Other Factors

9. The Center of Masculine Production: Gay Athletes in Professional Sports


One Athlete’s Story: Steven, Closeted NFL Player

Professional Sports

The Relationship between Professional Athletes and Homosexuality

Professional-Sized Fear

Professional Pressure

Gay Athletes and the Sport-Media Complex

The Employer

Cracking the Center

10. Doing Something about It


Research Findings

Factors in a Positive Coming Out Experience

How to Come Out to Your Team

Avoiding the Bisexual Trap

After Coming Out

Dealing with Uncomfortable Situations

On Being Attracted to Your Teammates

When Things Don’t Go Well

The Importance of Comebacks

Specific Issues for Gay Coaches

Handling the Privacy Issue

Warming Down

Notes
References
Index
SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

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Eric Anderson is Lecturer on Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York and the author of Trailblazing: The True Story of America’s First Openly Gay Track Coach.

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