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Love and Basketball: Not Always a Happy Ending
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 24, 2010 at 10:04pm

On September 15, a couple sat in their car outside a Popeye’s restaurant in Milwaukee. They may have been arguing over one partner having received a phone call that made the other partner angry and probably jealous. Family members said the couple, who...more

Does Supporting your Team Require Demeaning Gays?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 21, 2010 at 10:30pm

Last week I wrote about Yankee fans singing homophobic lyrics to the Village People’s YMCA. In the past I’ve written about homophobic fan chants, anti- gay slurs directed at opposing players, anti-gay signs held up by fans, you name, some groups of s...more

Male or Female? Where Do We Draw the Line in Sport?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 16, 2010 at 12:15pm

Here is an excellent ESPN Outside the Lines feature on intersex athletes. Alice Dreger’s comments, in particular, are thought-provoking and a must read for anyone in athletics grappling with policy development related to the participation of athletes wh...more

Title IX and bullying
by Title IX Blog
posted October 15, 2010 at 2:37pm

We have been fairly silent on the recent spate of anti-gay bullying. It is not from indifference--rather we have been very concerned and somewhat at a loss as to what to say. We have commented previously on bullying both anti-gay bullying and bullying tha...more

Student-athletes and anti-bullying efforts
by After Atalanta
posted October 13, 2010 at 5:09pm

Given the homophobia that has--historically--swirled around sport, as well as the recent spate of high-profile anti-gay bullying incidents around the country, this article was very welcome.At University of Michigan student-athletes have stepped up to supp...more

One Yeah! Three Nays for Girls & Women in Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted October 12, 2010 at 1:24am

In the Yeah! column, a video featuring two girls who play on boys’ football teams. In the Nay column, Mechelle Voepel’s column on the first-ever FIBA conference and the five “key topics” discussed by attendees (including lowering the rim, and reg...more

Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank Report Released
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 4, 2010 at 2:13pm

I am really proud to announce the public release of the report from the October, 2009 Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank that the Women’s Sports Foundation and the National Center for Lesbian Rights co-sponsored. Helen Carroll, the director of the ...more

NCAA eliminates the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in restructuring move
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 23, 2010 at 2:12pm

USA Today reports that the NCAA has eliminated the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the VP position directing that office held by Charlotte Westerhaus. This is one of 17 positions eliminated in the restructuring.The Office of Diversity and Inclusion...more

Update on former SMU basketball player’s lawsuit against women’s basketball coach
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 22, 2010 at 9:21pm

I first blogged about this situation in September, 2008 and then again in October, 2009. Well, finally after two years a judge has ruled that the lawsuit can go to trial. A quick summary: Jennifer Colli, a player on the SMU women’s basketball team, al...more

Unmatched: Martina and Chris Rivalry
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 13, 2010 at 5:10pm

Tuesday night, September 14 at 8 pm EDT, ESPN will air a documentary entitled, Unmatched. The film follows the tennis rivalry and friendship between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Martina and Chris discussed their relationship on and off the court ...more

When coaches teach bigotry in the name of Christianity
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 9, 2010 at 2:23pm

Excuse me, but I thought the primary goal of coaching girls' or women’s basketball teams was, well, coaching basketball . That would not be the case for Jaye Collins, however. He is the coach of the Louisville Legends. The Legends are part of a networ...more

Lest you think Rene Portland was the only one...
by After Atalanta
posted August 11, 2010 at 7:26pm

...who was up in her players' business and who ran a team with an iron fist; who was controlling and a little bit out of control...Think again. The story of coach Shann Hart, who is currently at University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis, and th...more

Allegations of anti-lesbian bias in IUPUI Women’s Basketball Program
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted July 29, 2010 at 4:28pm

Here we go again. An article in the Indianapolis Star reports that allegations of NCAA rule violations and allegations of abuse have been lodged against the head coach and associate head coach of women’s basketball at Indiana University-Purdue Universit...more

Following up on Eudy Simelane, Global Girl Media, and the subject of rape and homophobia in South Africa
by From A Left Wing
posted June 29, 2010 at 8:16pm

Young women in Soweto produced two video segments about homophobia, rape, and the situation of black lesbians in South Africa. These segments were produced through Global Girl Media, a project which directs young women in producing media about the issues ...more

"The Spiritual Significance of Pride"
by Q McCall
posted June 27, 2010 at 1:51pm

While people often see spirituality and the LGBT pride as antithetical to one another, Rev. Patrick S. Cheng describes the spirtitual significance of Pride Month....more

Research on homophobia & heterosexism featured
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted June 8, 2010 at 4:45pm

Research Assistant Austin Stair Calhoun and Director Mary Jo Kane discuss cutting-edge research on gender, digital media, and homophobia and heterosexism in collegiate athletics being conducted at The Tucker Center, as part of the University of Minnesota ...more

Ain’t I a woman?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 7, 2010 at 4:06pm

This is the title of a speech given by African-American abolitionist and former slave, Sojourner Truth, in 1851 at a Women’s Rights Conference in Ohio. Her speech was in reaction to the privileges that white women had and the comparative silence about t...more

WNBA marketing to lesbians? Who would have thought?
by Swish Appeal
posted May 31, 2010 at 5:17pm

Many fans in the present WNBA era complain that the WNBA doesn't do enough to market to their lesbian fans. If you followed newspapers from a decade ago, however, that would clearly not have been the case. BusinessWeek reported in its 2001 article "Gro...more

When gay coaches and athletes come out
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 28, 2010 at 5:45pm

The New York Times published two articles in May, one on an openly gay male college lacrosse player and the other about an openly gay male college coach. The lacrosse player, Andrew McIntosh, and the softball coach, Kirk Walker, describe how they their op...more

Softball Players to the Media: “We Are Not Lesbians, Damn It”
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 20, 2010 at 6:13pm

I don’t want to go back over the whole “Is Elena Kagan is a lesbian because she played softball 17 years ago” conversation, but I do want to note that the whole goofy discussion has, unfortunately as I feared, tapped in the homophobia that lurks jus...more

Kagan once played softball, which means she's gay?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 15, 2010 at 1:37pm

Ever since President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, questions about her sexuality have figured into the overall news narrative. Recently, news sources have begun showing a picture of Kagan playing softball, and suggesting that her affil...more

Lesbians, softball, and the Supreme Court
by After Atalanta
posted May 14, 2010 at 2:03pm

Wow, this is the kind of post that just gets me so...excited!So I missed the whole Wall Street Journal printing pics of SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan playing softball--on their front page! I did see said pics in various postings/blogs around teh internets.An...more

Supreme Court Nominee Scandal! But, then, who hasn’t played softball (and been photographed doing it)?
by Fair Game News
posted May 14, 2010 at 1:07pm

By Laura Pappano As long as we’re sharing old softball photos, here’s one of me playing at Yale in 1985. Q: What does it tell you? A: Probably not much (except that I’m a righty and played 1B). The firestorm over the photo of Elena Kagan playi...more

Judge throws out anti-heterosexual lawsuit against women’s basketball coach
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 7, 2010 at 8:02pm

Last year I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a heterosexual women’s basketball player at Central Michigan University. The lawsuit charged that the player was discriminated against by the coach because she was NOT a lesbian. The judge threw out part of th...more

Taking on homophobia in sport in Canada, the UK and Australia
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 6, 2010 at 3:32pm

The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity, AthletesCAN, and Coaches of Canada are sponsoring a program for the Canadian-led International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on May 17 that focuses on addressing homoph...more

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