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Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media.
About the Author
Andrew C. Billings (Ph.D., Indiana University) is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting and Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication at the University of Alabama. He has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters along with 17 books, most of which pertain to the nexus of sport, media, and identity. Leigh M. Moscowitz (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an associate professor and Head of the Public Relations Sequence in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Battle over Marriage and co-author of Snatched.