Openly Gay Player
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Anonymous
| On either the guys side or girls side I'm just curious if there are any openly gay players? I just wonder when stories like Carl Nassib https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/sports/football/who-is-carl-nassib.html will no longer be headlines. I feel like on my sons team that it perhaps wouldn't be accepted which makes me sad but its just the vibe I get. Anyone else? |
Anonymous
| what age is your son's team? |
Anonymous
| My daughter goes to a Catholic school so if the players are gay they are not openly so in high school. Women's lacrosse is very open to gay players, in fact at the college level from what I understand it may even be majority in some places. I was told this by a straight college player is was one of one or two straight women on her team. |
Anonymous
Same goes for college level soccer. |
Anonymous
| Why is this in the lacrosse forum? |
Anonymous
Because I think the question was about whether or not lacrosse as a sport is welcoming to gay players. Is this not something that could be discussed in a lacrosse forum or do we only speculate on what coach is going where and how could a coach like the madlax guy be so harsh in an email 15 years ago. |
Anonymous
| There’s an openly gay players on college teams and HS teams. |
Anonymous
What Catholic high school doesn’t have openly gay kids? |
Anonymous
| I can’t imagine anywhere that it wouldn’t be accepted by the kids. My son came out at 14 in Mississippi, of all places. Literally, no one cared. He is in college now. Being gay has never been an issue in sports, school, or anywhere else. Kids just don’t care about that stuff anymore. |
Anonymous
Well the article posted is about football and nothing is stated that OP is specifically wondering about lax. |
Anonymous
I think she is talking about openly gay football players. Because she goes on to say there are openly gay women’s lax players. It’s really unclear what OP is asking. |
Anonymous
Oh geeeez 
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Anonymous
| It sounds like OP is calling her sons teammates (or maybe their parents) homophobes, but with no actual data. She thinks she knows how the team as a whole would act in a hypothetical situation, and it makes her "sad." In other words she is more advanced and enlightened than they are. |
Anonymous
I can say that my son is not openly gay but those that know him well know. Of all the people who reacted it wasn't his club team. His high school team was a different issue. I'm not sure what the OP was asking or saying but in my experience only a few years ago it was a mixed bag but I imagine it's a mixed bag in a lot of places and not just lacrosse or sport. |
Anonymous
| This generation of kids doesn't give 2 sh**s about that. They're much more tolerant than we were at that age. |