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Religion, Marital Status and Sexual Orientation as Coaching Credentials
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 12, 2010 at 4:07pm

The University of Missouri has hired a new women’s basketball coach. Robin Pingeton, from all accounts, is an accomplished coach with all the credentials you might want in a college women’s athletic program. She has lots of coaching experience and s...more

The WBCA and Training Rules: Whose Problem is Homophobia Anyway?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 9, 2010 at 6:13pm

I just ran across this story about the Women’s Basketball Association’s (WBCA) refusal to allow the documentary Training Rules to be shown as part of their convention program in San Antonio last week. Dana Rudolph at change.org also wrote a blog abou...more

Sherri Murrell: Coming out and winning
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 22, 2010 at 8:47pm

Sherri Murrell is the head coach of the Portland State Women’s basketball team. They just concluded a successful season winning the Big Sky tournament and scoring a spot in the NCAA tournament. Facing number 2 seed, Texas A&M;, the 15th seeded Vikings h...more

These people at Smuckers are just f&*%^ers
by After Atalanta
posted March 19, 2010 at 8:52pm

I know that this story is already out there but it deserves more discourse. Plus it allows me to think again about the Olympics which seem so far away now, especially in this very odd 60+ degree pre-spring weather I am experiencing.So the story is that Jo...more

Skating on Thin Ice: Stars on Ice says no to Johnny Weir
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 17, 2010 at 10:08pm

The perennial post-Olympic Stars on Ice tour is getting under way , but it will be without Olympian Johnny Weir. He was not invited to the Stars on Ice party. They say they just don’t have room to include everyone, nothing personal against Johnny Weir....more

Johnny Come Lately
by From A Left Wing
posted March 14, 2010 at 3:24pm

I've recently become obsessed with Johnny Weir - I'm late to this bandwagon. As it happens, the first sport I followed with any seriousness was figure skating - but I've ignored the men's competitions especially in the past few years. My bad, because We...more

“If we appreciate each other, then we have a chance for something great.”
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 5, 2010 at 8:38pm

This is a quote from an interview this week with Jim Tressel, the Ohio State football coach whose team won the Rose Bowl this year. Tressel agreed to do the interview with Outlook Columbus, a local GLBT magazine. I am not sure of this, but I am betting ...more

Winter Olympics Gay Postscript
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 2, 2010 at 4:53pm

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are over and I know I will be getting a lot more sleep now. I stayed up way past my bedtime several nights to watch the action during the past two weeks. Of the 4-5 publicly out lesbian athletes (there were no openly gay, bi...more

Openly gay athletes are not necessarily public LGBT advocates
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 16, 2010 at 3:20pm

Every Olympic Games, summer or winter, we tally up the number of publicly out athletes and their names get posted on blogs and they get interviewed by the media about their sexual orientation. Some athletes, like gold medal diver, Matthew Mitcham and sil...more

It’s Winter Olympics Time. Do you know where the LGBT Olympians are?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 12, 2010 at 12:13pm

Well, of course they are in Vancouver, B.C. preparing for the competition. Thanks to the research of women at AfterEllen, we know that there are at least four openly lesbian Olympians competing. Heather Hogan wrote this article about them with some grea...more

A gay son and a father's love
by Women's Sports Blog
posted February 8, 2010 at 3:43pm

Shortly after having launched a league-wide conversation about homophobia and changing the perception of his dad, Toronto GM Brian Burke, Brendan Burke was killed in a car crash while driving in Indiana this past weekend. What a senseless tragedy. ...more

Olympic Pride House opens today
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 8, 2010 at 3:12pm

The first ever Pride House for LGBT athletes and friends opens today at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC. Sponsored by a private local LGBT group called GayWhistler, the Pride House does not have any official affiliation with International Olympic Co...more

LGBT sports advocacy loses another one
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 1, 2010 at 1:02pm

I got an email from Ted Rybka, last week letting me know that his position at GLAAD has been eliminated. Ted was in charge of the sports media desk for GLAAD. This position was established by Neil Giuliano, the former executive director of GLAAD. Ironica...more

Closeted Lesbian Coaches: Chicken shit or caught in a web of homophobia and sexism?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted January 18, 2010 at 1:56pm

Last week while I was in Atlanta at the NCAA convention, I got an alert on my trusty Blackberry that Pia Lundhage, the lesbian United States women’s soccer coach, came out on Swedish TV. I am always excited when high profile athletes and coaches come ou...more

An apology for my absence
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted January 11, 2010 at 3:07pm

I apology for my absence here in the blogosphere. I cannot seem to focus on writing a coherent blog post right now. I know this is temporary, but until it passes, I got nuthin’. So in the interests of not appearing to be completely MIA, I am writing t...more

It still takes a team
by Women's Sports Blog
posted January 11, 2010 at 12:54pm

It's past time for me to comment on the fact that the Women's Sports Foundation has eliminated its homophobia initiative, and along with it Pat Griffin's job. I don't understand it and I certainly don't agree with it. Does this mean homophobia is over...more

It Takes a Team: We're sorry to see you go
by Title IX Blog
posted December 22, 2009 at 3:23pm

It is with great amount of sadness that we report, to those who do not yet know, that the Women's Sports Foundation has decided to eliminate the It Takes a Team initiative to eliminate homophobia in sports. Run by Dr. Pat Griffin for the past five years,...more

The End of An Era – It Takes A Team, Rest in Peace
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted December 22, 2009 at 1:51pm

It is with sadness that I am passing on the news that the Women’s Sports Foundation has eliminated its initiative, It Takes A Team, effective at the end of January when my contract as director of ITAT expires. I’ve directed It Takes A Team for five ye...more

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