Pat Griffin has a full rundown of the latest from the Sky Wyatt lawsuit. Watt alleges that her high school softball coach in Kilgore, Texas, outed her to her mother, violating her right to privacy. From Griffin’s blog: The lawsuit claims that the coaches: 1. Called Skye to a fake team meeting 2. Locked Skye [...]
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Outsports’ Persons of the Year: Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll
You’d be hard-pressed to name two people who have collectively had a stronger impact on the gay-sports movement than Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll. These two pioneers have been working toward equality for the better part of 30 years. They’ve visited high schools. They’ve talked to colleges. They’ve waged legal campaigns. They’ve educated educators. And [...]
Vote: Who is Outsports’ Person of the Year?
Last day to vote! Every year we ask our readers to crown the Outsports ‘Person of the Year.’ Last year’s honorees were Brian & Patrick Burke, who garnered over 60% of the vote! This year we have many incredibly deserving people, and we have narrowed it down to these final six. We’ll announce the winner [...]
National Association for Sport and Physical Education joins GLSEN’S Changing The Game
We can’t say enough about the work being done by GLSEN’S Changing the Game project. While so many other organizations preach to the choir or hope the voices of celebrities do the talking for us, Pat Griffin and her crew are taking the message of inclusion where it counts. The latest is the announcement that [...]
Nike hosts gay coming out day event highlighting straight allies
Read more from Pat Griffin on her blog. Last spring just after GLSEN launched Changing the Game, our new sports project, I got an email from Edward Tylicki from Nike. Edward is a member of Nike’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends Employee Network. Edward sought me out as director for the Sports Project because [...]
NCAA adopts official policy opening the door for transgender athletes
The NCAA has finally adopted an official policy opening the door for transgender athletes to compete during and after transition. The news comes after a groundbreaking transgender-athlete think tank last year headed up by the NCAA, NCLR’s Helen Carroll and Pat Griffin. “I commend the NCAA’s commitment to creating and supporting an inclusive culture that [...]
Moment #77: First Equal Opportunity for Transgender Student-Athletes think tank
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Various sports, 2009. Before Kye Allums came out, NCLR’s Helen Carroll and It Takes A Team’s Pat Griffin were already planning for it. In October 2009 they organized the first-ever Equal Opportunity for Transgender Student-Athletes think tank to get ahead of [...]
Expert panel debates the homophobia that confronts lesbians in sports
When you get Pat Griffin, Lisa Howe, Lauren Lappin, Sherri Murrell and Mechelle Voepel together to discuss the problems facing lesbians in sports, you know the subject will be addressed with honesty, great insight and clarity. The five were on the “Rainbow Ceiling” panel recently sponsored by the Association for Women in Sports Media. Moderated [...]
Moment #92: Pat Griffin publishes ‘Strong Women, Deep Closets’
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Various sports, 1998. Every woman who plays sports is queer, so it’s gotta be easy being a lesbian athlete, right? That was the prevailing myth that pervaded sports (and largely still does). But it was Pat Griffin’s Strong Women, Deep Closets that [...]
Outsports’ 100 most important moments in LGBT-sports history
When we look back years from now at 2011, it will be akin to what 1947 was for black athletes. That was the year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. This year we’ve seen an unprecedented number of gay athletes come out of the closet, and we’ve seen even more straight athletes stand [...]
New gay coaching alliance forms
We got this in today from Roger Brigham, a high school wrestling coach, Gay Games advocate and longtime sportswriter. We couldn’t think of a more perfect person to launch the project advocating equality for gay coaches, and he’s joined by many of our favorite people: Lou Tharp, Mari Burningham, Helen Carroll, Pat Griffin, Dan Woog and [...]
GLSEN and Pat Griffin unveil their new Sports Project, ‘Changing The Game’
We’ve written about it here over the last few months, and now GLSEN is officially launching its Sports Project, ‘Changing The Game.’ The initiative is designed to combat homophobia in K-12 sports by opening conversations in schools and on teams about the issue. The project’s Web site provides resources for athletes, coaches and administrators to [...]
GLSEN sports project sets agenda
Last week I headed to New York City for the first meeting of the advisory board for GLSEN’s new sports project, Changing the Game. The initiative, headed by Pat Griffin, will battle homophobia in sports at the K-12 level. The advisory board meeting included some great people from across the LGBT sports spectrum: Transgender former [...]
Pat Griffin and GLSEN team up
When the Women’s Sports Foundation lost funding for the It Takes a Team project earlier this year, we were worried that the venerable Pat Griffin would be limited in the work she could do to combat homophobia in sports. Fear not. In addition to co-authoring a great report on transgender athletes, now comes news that [...]
Pat Griffin: The root of male sports homophobia
Pat Griffin has posted a great column about her thoughts on the root of homophobia in sports. I wonder if the resistance to accepting a gay man in the locker room and on the team doesn’t have more to do with the fragility of masculinity and the illusion of superiority that being a heterosexual male [...]