Gary Spitko’s Book “Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations” Has Been Published

Professor E. Gary Spitko’s book Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations has been published by Penn Press. From the first game of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs on April 22, 1876, tens of thousands of men have played professional sports in the Big Four major professional sports leagues in the United States. Until April 29, 2013, however, when NBA center Jason Collins came out publicly as gay, not one of those tens of thousands of men had ever come out to the public as gay while an active player on a major league roster. In Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations, Professor Spitko argues that in the case of athletes, and others in role-model occupations, a record of widespread and frequently systematic employment discrimination has been excluding gay people from the public social spaces that identify and teach whom society respects and whom members of society should seek to emulate. Read more.