Jason Collins opened a door. Many LGBTQ athletes still don’t feel safe walking through it more than a decade later

while Michael Sam was out when he was drafted by the then-St. Louis Rams in 2014, he was cut months later and never played in a regular season NFL game.

Today, the political climate has grown increasingly hostile toward LGBTQ visibility and transgender rights, and leagues, players and advocates are still wrestling with LGBTQ inclusion: what happens continue reading …