Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK

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 play...

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Published inSport in society Vol. 25; no. 8; pp. 1489 - 1505
Main Authors Magrath, Rory, Batten, John, Anderson, Eric, White, Adam J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.08.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
ATLG
Attitudes
Christianity
College students
higher education
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Lesbianism
Men
race
religion
Socialization
sport
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1743-0437
1743-0445
DOI:10.1080/17430437.2020.1844183