It’s extremely taxing on his emotional health. Anson is carrying a lot of internalized homophobia and is living a lie, sleeping with women so no one suspects his secret. I kid! But it is a sports coming out story. The lovely thing is, they never doubt their love for each other this is a story that illustrates that love doesn’t magically make everything perfect, but it does provide support and safety when the world is scary and decisions are tough. The close narrative focus on Scott and Kip helps create the sense of isolation that the relationship has created for the protagonists. At first, Kip is happy just to be falling in love, and Scott can’t believe he’s so lucky as to have what he never thought he would, but before long the pressure of keeping the relationship a secret wears on the couple. (I will note that because of the very small number of out queer players in professional sports, a lot of these narratives (in general) involve secret relationships, internalized homophobia, and coming out stories.)Īt the time of publication, there were no out professional hockey players in the NHL, so Scott’s story is a what-if exploration of big feels. This week Erin’s spotlighting some of the M/M sports romance that she’s read but hasn’t reviewed for the blog: Our Smashdown can’t be limited to only 8 duels and a few other reviews! In order to showcase some more lovely sports romance, we need listicles!
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