"Yes, a football outing itself," was honored by the TIME and appeals to the Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas, who had been publicly outed himself just before Christmas in the British tabloid Daily Mail. Coaches and teammates knew it longer, since 2006, when the marriage had broken up Thomas' and he suffered from it, and under the perpetual hiding. Constantin Wissmann also brings other examples where the outing had such negative consequences, like the British soccer player Justin Fashanus, who hanged himself eight years after his public confession, "I'm gay" and that the East German young hopeful Mark Urban, of his career with 23 years ended, because the pressure of hiding, he no longer withstand. The times must have changed, now homosexuals in "male"

sports no longer afraid of an outing, writes Wissman and appeals to Gareth Thomas ( "The support for my outing was simply overwhelming. I have received letters from around the world . Many have written that they are in a similar situation, and my decision has given them courage. insults were not at all. ") and us on the American sports sociologist and openly gay track coach Eric Anderson, who has observed that the homophobia in sports as in the cultural life is declining. Amateur sport and in universities is now hardly feel anything about it, the competitive sport is more conservative, but could a bastion of homophobia can no longer speak. Even the fear of losing sponsorship contracts and thus advertising revenue is unfounded, says Anderson. He even has an example of Bush's middle class football player who had lifted himself by his homosexuality from the crowd and therefore received endorsement deals.