Student-athletes are often among the most recognized people on college campuses — especially at those schools with big-time sports.
A University of Arizona researcher wanted to measure how allied some college athletes are with the LGBT community. Russ Toomey devised a scale to assess whether those athletes were engaging in what might be considered allied-type behaviors, both on and off the field.
He surveyed 159 student-athletes, with a roughly 50/50 gender split.
Toomey is an assistant professor in Family Studies and Human Development at UA, where he studies LGBTQ health disparities in kids and young adults.
