I believe in our society today being openly gay is more accepted and not looked down upon as much as it has in earlier years. However, in sports it has not reached a point yet where athletes can have the confidence to come out about being gay at anytime. Being gay, and being a current professional athlete still has its issues with society. In the articles, it explained numerous times that even if the teammates are accepting and supporting, it is the fans that are usually not. Which is why I do not think sport is a safe place for LGBT athletes. I think sport has made progress with slowly becoming more accepting to LGBT athletes, but I do not think it has fully become a safe and accepting place for them. Like Robbie Roger's expressed about how he waited to announce he was gay until he was no longer playing futbal any longer because he knew at that moment futbal as a sport was not going to accept it right away, but had faith that it was going to change overtime.
Sports are so cultural that it takes time just like racism did for culture to change and be accepting. This is why I think with more and more athletes coming out, and standing up not being discriminated against ( like in Training Rules) more of society will become acceptable to athletes being gay.
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