Contributing to a growing yet underresearched area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues in sport, this study interrogates news discourses of the most prominent American athletes coming-out stories to date: the National Basketball Association’s Jason Collins and the National Football League’s Michael Sam. Mainstream media narratives invoked an overall congratulatory tone, hailing these announcements as watershed moments while at the same time emphasizing athletes’ physicality and athleticism in ways that reinforced the hypermasculine. Journalists and opinion leaders celebrated these announcements while simultaneously relying on coded and overt homophobic labels and language. Media storytellers subsequently relied upon dualistic, self-contradictory binaries, highlighting the paradoxes implicit in celebrating increased gay visibility within the confines of a commercialized sports/media complex with heterosexuality and hypermasculinity at its core.

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运动衣橱之外：主流男同性恋职业运动员的新闻话语

这项研究对体育运动中的女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别和酷儿问题不断发展但尚未得到充分研究的领域做出了贡献，并询问了迄今为止最杰出的美国运动员的新闻话语：美国国家篮球协会的杰森柯林斯和美国国家橄榄球联盟联盟的迈克尔山姆。主流媒体的叙述总体上用了祝贺的语气，将这些公告称为分水岭，同时强调运动员的身体素质和运动能力，增强了超男子气概。记者和意见领袖庆祝这些公告，同时依赖编码和公开的恐同标签和语言。媒体故事讲述者随后依赖于二元论、自相矛盾的二元论，