Two studies that were recently released in Melbourne, have tackled the reasons behind a lack of LGBTQI representation in professional sports. Both studies come at a time when the world’s highest-ranked sport industry journal is releasing a special issue of peer-reviewed papers, which have found LGBTQI issues in sport still largely go ignored by sport leaders.The first, analysed responses from a large sample of 1173 LGBTQI young people aged 15–21 that are living in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia,