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LGBTQ People and Sports


LGBTQ People and Sports - GLAAD

The NCAA, the Olympics, dozens of states and sport governing bodies have studied and implemented policies to include transgender athletes with no negative ...

HRC | LGBTQ+ People and Sports - Human Rights Campaign

LGBTQ+ People and Sports ... For millions of Americans, sport embodies our ideals of equality, fairness, perseverance, discipline and integrity. On the field, ...

LGBTQ Youth Sports Participation - The Trevor Project

Thirty-two percent of LGBTQ youth in our sample reported that they had ever participated in sports for a school or community league or club, ...

"LGBTQ Athletes and Discrimination in Sport" by Rebecca Mattson

The scholarship addresses a growing movement to allow transgender children to play sports with the gender that they identify with.

LGBT Inclusion in Sports - Center for American Progress

Study results suggest that professional teams that express support for LGBT athletes and fans and those that endorse laws that protect LGBT ...

Homosexuality in modern sports - Wikipedia

Notable LGBTQ+ athletes · John Curry · Billie Jean King · Jason Collins · Michael Sam · Megan Rapinoe.

LGBTQ+ Athletes: How athletes are using their platforms to advance ...

"Gay" is furthermore still used as an insult in many sports. It is meant to deny athletes their masculinity, which is associated with power and ...

LGBTQ+ inclusion in sports - sportanddev

Sport can be used to increase the social capital and social integration of LGBTQ+ peoples into the wider community, as well as empowering them and giving them ...

Statistics - Homophobia and Transphobia in Sports

LGB AND TRANS PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES IN SPORT. RESEARCHERS NEED TO REPORT DATA ON SEXUALITY AND GENDER IDENTITY SEPARATELY. · 73% of gay bisexual and ...

Why Are LGBTQ Youth Avoiding Sports In School? Fear Of ... - Forbes

Fewer than one-third of LGBTQ youth—only 32%—reported that they had ever participated in sports for a school or community league or club; More ...

Experiences of LGBTQ student-athletes in college sports: A meta ...

After experiencing discrimination and violence, as well as perceived sexual stigma and stereotypes in the sports context, LGBTQ student-athletes internalized ...

Pride in sport: Recognising the achievements of LGBTQ+ Olympians ...

While queer historians have reported on plenty of closeted gay athletes to compete at an Olympics, not one was on record as being out until ...

lgbtq students and school sports participation research brief - GLSEN

LGBTQ people, history, and events in the curriculum,. 3) the presence of a GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance or. Gay-Straight Alliance), and 4) having an anti ...

​LGBTQ representation in sport - Investigo

More than three-quarters of gay, lesbian and bisexual people in a major study of more than 9,000 people in 10 countries said they had remained at least ...

LGBTQ+ Mental Health and Participation in Sports - Psychiatry.org

LGBTQ+ athletes are at higher risk of abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, neglect), and efforts to mitigate these hard truths have made ...

Breaking barriers: the LGBTQIA+ community - EU Sport

The study reveals that 20% of LGBTQIA+ people refrain from participating in sport due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. What's ...

Bans on Transgender Youth Participation in Sports

Recently, anti-LGBTQ activists and politicians have introduced – and passed – laws to ban transgender youth from participating in school sports, ...

Athlete Ally: Home

Learn more about Athlete Ally's work to champion LGBTQI+ inclusion in and through sport.

LGBTQ Athletes and Discrimination in Sport - Penn State Law eLibrary

First, many articles address the discrimination that LGBT athletes face in sports, particularly intercollegiate and professional. Second, the scholarship ...

Full article: LGBTQIA+ topics in sport, human movement and education

Critically, 56.8% of LGBTQIA+ athletes' relationships were classified as exclusionary, 16.5% as inert, 20.2% as inclusive and 20.2% as alternative. In other ...