Is Coming Out a Career Killer?

[Catzsy]

I was just amazed when I read this article. Perhaps I am being naive but I thought homophobia in employment was something that was left in the 20th Century.

This article shocked me a bit although I found this paragraph showed some have come a long way :

A survey by the University of Staffordshire found that 93% of football fans disapproved of homophobic abuse, and 60% believed gay footballers should come out. What will it take for someone to take that step? "Guarantees: from their club, that they will be supported and not sold, support from the fans and from commercial endorsements. The main obstacle is that football is entrenched in homophobia.

Warning - contains language that is filtered on the forum.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...public-figures

Do you think the prejudice is still bad today? I hope not!

[W00TZEH]

It's not homophobia from staff colleagues, it's from the fans at the football matches.

[FlyingJesus]

Only gay footballer I know of is that black dude who committed suicide in the late 90s, and I only know of him because he killed himself.