Abstract

This article examines the influence of ethnicity on sporting men’s attitudes towards homosexuality. We employed Herek’s Attitudes Towards Lesbians and Gay Men, Revised Version (ATLG-R) scale to collect data with British undergraduate sports students, as well as interview data with the players of an English Premier League (EPL) football academy, to show that black and minority ethnic (BME) men espouse more conservative attitudes towards homosexuality than their White counterparts. This, we theorize, is attributable to multiple factors, such as socialization into a fundamentalist version of Christianity by family, and the influence of immigration from countries where attitudes towards homosexuality remain more conservative in comparison to the UK. In documenting these findings, this research is consistent with other studies which document higher rates of intolerance among groups of BME men.

摘要

本文探讨了种族对体育男性对同性恋态度的影响。我们采用了赫雷克对男女同性恋者的态度，修订版(ATLG-R) 量表收集与英国本科体育学生的数据，以及与英超联赛 (EPL) 足球学院球员的访谈数据，以表明黑人和少数族裔 (BME) 男性支持更保守的态度同性恋比他们的白人同行。我们推测，这可归因于多种因素，例如家庭社会化为基督教的原教旨主义版本，以及来自与英国相比对同性恋的态度仍然更为保守的国家的移民的影响。在记录这些发现时，这项研究与其他研究一致，这些研究记录了 BME 男性群体中较高的不耐受率。