‘Fear is a liar. The world is ready’: LGBTQ+ sports media members on their experiences – The Athletic

Four years ago this month, after former NFL lineman Ryan O’Callaghan revealed on Outsports.com that he had planned to take his own life after professional football, a result of O’Callaghan living life as a closeted gay man, I hosted a roundtable on Sports Illustrated’s website with seven openly LGBTQ+ sports media members. You can read the piece from 2017 here, which includes the panelists’ coming-out stories.

This month I asked the same seven sports media members if they would return to participate in a similar panel. They all agreed. Some in the panel have since moved to new jobs or assignments.

The panel:

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