Homophobia in sport study reveals results that are 'alarming' and 'surprising'

With the support of Australia’s major sporting codes, attitudes are changing but report shows there is still a lot of work to be doneBased on the numbers from the recently-released “Out In The Fields” survey, homophobia in sport appears to be so prevalent that had the survey pertained to Jews, black people, red-heads, left-handers, disabled war veterans or any other sub-set of our humankind (outside, it seems, gay people) there’d be calls for sport to be outlawed. Indeed if sport were a person and it had displayed such overwhelming narrow-mindedness towards one particular tranche of our societ…