ABSTRACT
Two reasons: (1) they fear the reaction of others; (2) they don’t want to risk losing money. “There are players out there in soccer, in American football, in baseball, in all the sports, that people love, admire, embrace and hero-worship who are gay. That is just a fact,” discerned British-born ex-NBA player, John Amaechi, adding that, even in the twenty-first century, many athletes still have a “stereotypical view that there is such a thing as a gay predator that will hit on anything that moves.”
