Sports Journalism and Women Athletes by William P. Cassidy

Author:William P. Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030305260
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Conclusion

The scholarship discussed in this chapter shows that inquiries into issues related to gay and lesbian athletes are a burgeoning area. Numerous methodological and theoretical approaches have been utilized. However, as demonstrated here, the findings are as varied as the approaches taken. But, overall media coverage has progressed. Furthermore, there are many additional areas open for exploration. Of particular interest to this project, researchers have expressed a need for even more scholarship examining the coming out stories of gay and lesbian athletes, including comparisons of media coverage of male and female athletes who come out (Kian et al. 2015; Moscowitz et al. 2019). This book addresses those gaps in the literature. But, it does so from a different theoretical and methodological perspective as explained in the next chapter, which also reports the results of two studies examining how journalists framed the coming out stories of King, Swoopes and Griner.

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