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Lessons Sheryl Swoopes Is Teaching Us
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted July 15, 2011 at 12:04pm

Sheryl Swoopes has announced that she is engaged to a man. This news might be confusing to some people who remember that Sheryl revealed that she was a lesbian in 2005 in an interview with LZ Granderson of ESPN. Prior to this public announcement, she ha...more

Civil Rights and Association Leadership
by Mariah Burton Nelson: BEYOND WORKOUTS - Think of Yourself as an Athlete
posted July 7, 2011 at 9:12am

This is a mini-speech I gave in June at the Detroit reunion of Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP*) participants. New York State just legalized gay marriage. Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, surely everyone here appreciates this as a c...more

Injuries and imagery in women’s sports - what's the message?
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:51pm

(This is a topic I wanted to examine in my recent series “Women’s Sports Without Illusions,” especially after a perceptive reader brought it up. I pledged to address it in a new phase of my inquiry that continues on this blog and elsewhere. So here...more

More on Brenny v UMinnesota Discrimination Lawsuit
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:44pm

Former women’s golf coach Katie Brenny and members of the women’s team have widely different accounts of what transpired in their conversations with former director of golf, John Harris and his son-in-law, Ernie Rose about Katie Brenny and her sexual ...more

Settlement Follows OCR Investigation of Anti-Gay Bullying and Suicide
by Title IX Blog
posted July 2, 2011 at 10:01am

In January, we blogged that the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights had undertaken an unprecedented investigation by agreeing to look into charges that a school district failed to protect a middle-school student from anti-gay bullying that r...more

Homophobia and Sexism in Soccer
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 29, 2011 at 2:04pm

This is an excellent article commenting on homophobia and sexism in soccer. Given the start of the Women's World Cup games and the recent anti-lesbian rant from the Nigerian women's coach, it is both relevant and right on target. I particularly want to ca...more

The second tale: Gender identity in intercollegiate athletics
by After Atalanta
posted June 28, 2011 at 5:41pm

I have been somewhat lax in my posting recently, and I know I promised three tales of gender identity and discrimination a while back. My first tale was related to the Women's World Cup and the accusations against Equatorial Guinea based on--apparently--t...more

Update on discrimination lawsuit filed by lesbian golf coach
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 27, 2011 at 3:34pm

Last December I blogged about a situation brewing at the University of Minnesota in which a lesbian, Katie Brenny, hired to coach the women’s golf team filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the university and the director of golf, John Harris. Bre...more

Nigerian Women’s Soccer Coach to Team: “No Lesbians Need Apply.”
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 24, 2011 at 12:18am

The Women’s World Cup Soccer Tournament is beginning in Germany and our focus should be on the play on the field. Unfortunately this article about the Nigerian women’s coach and her crusade to rid her team of lesbians calls attention to the nasty und...more

AWSMNow: The Rainbow Ceiling, a conversation about homosexuality in sports
by mhueter
posted June 22, 2011 at 11:10am

Thanks for the Association for Women in Sports Media for sending this along. In commemoration of Pride month, the Association for Women in Sports Media is proud to present “The Rainbow Ceiling, a conversation about homosexuality in sports” as...more

Banned lesbian kisses at professional sporting events in the news (Again)
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 17, 2011 at 2:30pm

This time the offending lesbians are Minnesota Twins fans who dared to indulge in a peck on the lips that was witnessed by a Twins security guard. He promptly warned them that their behavior was unacceptable and that the 10 commandments applied during Twi...more

New LGBT Coaching Alliance
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 13, 2011 at 2:25pm

Roger Brigham, a long-time LGBT sports advocate, sport journalist, high school wrestling coach and athlete in his own right, has formed the Equality Coaching Alliance. Roger describes the Alliance,“Equality Coaching Alliance was conceived of as a virtu...more

Calling all Law Professors' Papers on Harassment and Bullying
by Title IX Blog
posted June 10, 2011 at 4:39pm

This is a call for papers on the application of Title IX to bullying and harassment in schools. Selected papers will be presented at the American Association of Law Schools' annual meeting in January and published in the Western New England Law Review. ...more

Some Thoughts On Straight Allies in Sport
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 9, 2011 at 5:33pm

In recent weeks we have witnessed what feels like a mass coming out of straight male athletes speaking publicly in support of gay marriage, against anti-LGBT bullying and name-calling, and against homophobia in sport. It has been an amazing news cycle un...more

San Francisco Giants tell LBGT Youth "It Gets Better"
by Women in Sport International
posted June 2, 2011 at 12:57pm

Thanks to Feministing for passing on the news that the San Francisco Giants are the first professional sports team to participate in the growing "It Gets Better" project. The website http://www.itgetsbetter.org is a website that targets young people who a...more

AFL shown up by players’ crusades to tackle homophobia
by Off The Court
posted May 29, 2011 at 11:13pm

Hanging up the footy books for the rainbow flag isn’t the norm in 2011 but Ben Cohen isn’t your normal international rugby player. He’s proud of the fact that he’s a popular figure in the gay community all over the world even though he’s openly ...more

Spread the word to end the word
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 25, 2011 at 9:44pm

Maybe we should be thanking Kobe Bryant and Joakim Noah. Their use of the double F bomb anti-gay slur on national TV has certainly provided the opportunity for a national conversation in Guysportsworld about the causal use of anti-gay slurs by professiona...more

Transgender player Kye Allums leaves team
by After Atalanta
posted May 20, 2011 at 2:45pm

Kye Allums, the openly transgender member of the George Washington women's basketball team, has announced that he will not be playing his senior year.It is largely due to the two concussions he suffered this season, according to some sources. He has susta...more

May: A great month for good gay news in sports
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 17, 2011 at 2:52pm

Wow, it is difficult to even know where to start with all the gay happenings in sports this month. And I mean gay as in happy and gay as in sexual orientation. I’m talking about men’s professional team sports here for the most part: The place where s...more

Peter Vidmar steps down, Jessica Mendoza steps up
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 12, 2011 at 1:22pm

Peter Vidmar resigned yesterday, just eight days after being named chef de mission by the USOC for the London Olympic Games. Vidmar’s active participation in anti-marriage equality campaigns made his choice more controversial than either he or the USOC...more

Gay football players: "Like peanut butter & jelly and cheese"
by After Atalanta
posted May 11, 2011 at 1:13pm

Inside Higher Ed ran a piece last week about the experiences of gay intercollegiate football players based on a preliminary research study. I have been meaning to post about it but things in Title IX land last week kept me pretty busy. (Not to mention tho...more

USOC chooses anti-LGBT activist as Chef De Mission
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 6, 2011 at 1:08pm

The United State Olympic Committee (USOC) has named former gold medal winning gymnast Peter Vidmar as chef de mission for the 2012 London Olympics. Vidmar, a Mormon, is a public opponent of extending the right to marry to lesbian and gay people. He donate...more

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