On Thursday in my Women in Sports class we watched a video called, It Takes a Team. I found this short video to be an eye opening experience for me. Being able to see the real experiences homosexual athletes go through was something I had never seen before. I've never been apart of someone's "coming out" experience and this shed light onto this stressful experience. I found it very nice that they presented both sides of the situation, being the teammates as well as the athletes. Most always you only hear from one side. Most often you hear that when Athlete's come out, they get criticized for being homosexual, it was nice that the movie showed a couple athlete's that were accepted for who they were.
The story that stood out to me the most was a guy named Cory from the Masconomet Football Team. He was very masculine, tough, and one of the captains on the football team. When he came out to his football team, his teammates said that they would have never guessed he was gay, because of his masculinity. He received acceptance as well as positive responses from his teammates. Most of the other athlete's that were interviewed in the film received negative responses from their schoolmates or teammates, which is commonly heard of.
With society now days there is more acceptance than there was before, but we still have a long way to go, considering homosexual athletes are still being criticized and not all groups offer a supporting environment. I can see how difficult it can be coming out to your teammates as well as how uncomfortable it can be for the teammates. This raises the question as to how Cory’s football team now takes and views Cory in situations such as changing in the locker rooms together, or if perhaps, this might affect female teams more?
-Jessica Franklin; Kin 338I sec. 3201
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