Presents Ian Roberts as a courageous pioneer and moral benchmark for LGBTQ+ inclusion in sports
Roberts is invoked symbolically as a past figure who confronted homophobia, used to underscore the ongoing failure of the sport to progress.
“Or perhaps the publication will disable the comments. Making the homophobia pool elsewhere. You might not see it but it will be flooding the timeline of young gay men. Teenagers who, like Evans, are just realising that they will have to choose which part of themselves they are allowed to love.”
