A study published in the Journal of Sex Research in February of 1977 found that around 25% of all male college athletes have had gay experiences.
[1] The case of Jennifer Harris against Penn State, more specifically their women's basketball coach Rene Portland, was about homosexuality.
[5] In 2014, shortly after the end of the season, sophomore starting guard Derrick Gordon of the University of Massachusetts Amherst came out as gay, making him the first Division I men's basketball player to do so while still playing in college.
[9] Division II college football player Brian Sims came out as gay to his team in 2000 while playing for Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania,[10] and publicly told his story in 2009.
[13] Outsports, a website specializing in LGBTQ people in sports, released his story about being a gay football player on April 23, 2013.
[20] Also in 2018, Division II Wyatt Pertuset of Capital University became the first openly gay college player to score a touchdown.
[28][29][30] The case of Jennifer Harris against Penn State, more specifically their women's basketball coach Rene Portland, was about homosexuality.