Which sport has the most gay people

Because I value the scientific process, I’ve compiled a ranked list of the 28 sports most likely to be played in one’s youth that will make you grow up to be a big ol’ queer. Homosexuality in modern sports The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) community is prevalent within sports across the world. There have been several notable outspoken homosexual athletes, including John Curry, Billie Jean King, boxer Orlando Cruz and Jason Collins.

Seeing as the Olympics always see the world come together over skin-to-skin contact, here are the sports we think are the most relatable to the LGBTQ + community.

What sport has the most gay women

Based on stereotypes I would've guessed golf, softball, or rugby. But that wiki list says soccer, by far - like there are more out gay women in olympic soccer than the next 4 highest sports combined. I think it'd be more interesting to see the percentage. Soccer might be at the top because the teams mean there are more competitors overall. Who is the most famous gay athlete?

Football star Michael Sam made headlines in when he became the first openly gay athlete to be drafted into the NFL. But he definitely wasn’t the first homosexual athlete to find success. Olympic diver Greg Louganis is openly gay. He came out publicly in on The Oprah Show.

The N.H.L. Officially Welcomes Gay Players With Most Inclusive Measures of Any Professional Sport

I think you missed oiled wrestling which is very popular in some places. To netball I would also add womens gay. The five big issues Read our strategy. By then, the damage was already done. Can you do the same thing, but with choir voices and orchestra instruments? No one has mentioned it but i feel like being on a bowling league at 13, with your own custom made ball and wrist brace is super gay.

I did soccer and badminton. It was all pretty fucking gay. Continue reading. I assure you that all of the Australian lesbians play netball. I started with basketball in 4th grade, played volleyball for years, and was assigned to shot put and people when I joined middle school track. Our strategy — Uniting the Movement Uniting the Movement, our year strategy launched inis our plan to make being physically active a normal part of life for everyone in England — to make it easier for all of us as we go about our everyday lives.

Rose Eveleth Read More. Which sport did you play? National Soccer team member and professional player in England, came out of the closet this year to much discussion. It was all most polite and complimentary XD Loading Get the latest sports in your inbox every weekday. The sport and physical activity sector is working with community groups to better understand what works for them. But I really believe that lifting helped give me the confidence I needed to come out and basically change my entire life.

Should be up which with field hockey which I agree was has early training for misandrist me. But even the N. About the About places.

My main sports are karate, soccer, and softball so I think that I have been gay for a while now and it took me a while to realize Loading Checks out with boat stuff having pretty gay rep and all. Never played a single game of softball in my life not even in PE but played cabbage ball in the summer league until I aged out and still have my team shirt that I accidentally wore to a family portrait with jeans, battered tennis shoes and frizzy half-assed pony tail I did in the car while everyone else was well dressed nice with shiny hair.

And that time the captains of the U. I received more basketball pictures of young Autostraddle staff than any other sport. In seventh grade, I made the junior high basketball team. Like I said, lived in my hetero closet, but we are all still very good friends. Ari has written articles for us.