Field Theory by Hadyn Green

Would Jenkins' campaign for gay rights if any of his children were homosexuals?

Homosexual sports players in sports are a tricky one. Teams [especially in the States] have obligations to sponsors as well as their coaches.

But of course, it isn't just a US thing. Can anyone name 5 openly homosexual athletes from Australasia?

Can anyone name 5 openly homosexual athletes from Australasia?

Well according to Zoe Goss, the Australian Women’s Cricket team gives you 11 to start with.

Would Jenkins' campaign for gay rights if any of his children were homosexuals?

Or just ship them off to gay re-education camp?

Can anyone name 5 openly homosexual athletes from Australasia?

Not 5, but the guy who won the diving gold medal at the Olympics was gay (though the American TV stations did everything they could do to hide it.

By the way I realised at lunch that the title of this post is incorrect.

While there have been 43 white presidents and 1 black one. Technically black candidates are 1-0 in US presidential elections.

There was a gay rugby league player playing for Manly in the 1990s. Roberts?

But I suspect that, depending on the sport, 50 - 90% of gays/lesbians are in the closet in terms of their sport and their teammates.

In a competition between basketball and ice hockey, I suspect basketball might be more homophobic, but ice hockey is certainly more racist. Not sure about sexism, that could be a tie.

Would Jenkins' campaign for gay rights if any of his children were homosexuals?

Cheney wasn't exactly spending too much time working for PFLAG, so no, not necessarily.

I would say that football is the worst sport in the states for any kind of -ism. Case in point: Buck Burnette from the University of Texas Longhorns. After the election, he updated his Facebook status to: all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse.

Thankfully he was kicked off the team.

The reason Roberts “got away” with being gay in the NRL (the ultimate Aussie macho sport) was because he was just such a hard bustard.

No-one would ever dare give him a hard time.

One of the great sporting minority role models of all time.

Our take on gays in sport from the archives.

And yes, that's Roberts in the pic.

Outsports would probably be the best place to start for lists of gay sportsfolk (and lists of the hottest guys in sport).

It's possibly a little too beefcake to call it SFW however (Hadyn suddenly discovers).

It's possibly a little too beefcake to call it SFW however (Hadyn suddenly discovers).

Well there goes my afternoon...