When Sports Illustrated’s cover asked, “Is the NFL Ready for Michael Sam?” they didn’t mean on the football field.
Ian Lekus
About Ian Lekus
Ian Lekus is a lecturer in LGBT Studies at the University of Maryland and an LGBT Thematic Specialist for Amnesty International USA. He has taught US and world history, sexuality and gender studies, HIV/AIDS, and other topics at Harvard, Duke, Tufts, N.C. State, and the University of Georgia. He is currently completing his first book, Queer and Present Dangers: Sexuality, Masculinity, and the Sixties. His lifelong passions include sports and social justice, whose intersections and contradictions continue to fascinate him. You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter.