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Whose Game Is It?
Eric Anderson on Gay Athletes, Straight Teams, and Homophobia Thursday, March 17 7-8:30pm Golkin Room, Houston Hall, Second Floor 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia Free and Open to the Public! Sponsored by PATH - Penn's Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia and Heterosexism Co-sponsored by The Department of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Eric Anderson is a researcher and lecturer of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has a doctorate in sociology from the University of California Irvine and is well known for his dynamic lecturing on issues pertaining to sport, gender, sexuality and homophobia. Dr. Anderson is the nation’s expert in understanding the relationship between gay male athletes and sport, and is the author of several books and publications on the subject, including his latest In the Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity, where he examines openly gay athletes at all levels of organized sport. He has also penned an autobiography titled Trailblazing: America’s First Openly Gay High School Coach. For more information about this event, please contact Paul Farber (paulf@sas.upenn.edu) or call the LGBT Center at 215.898.5044 For a full QPenn schedule, please go to www.qpenn.org |
