SPORT / SPORTS
See also the two videocassettes on the opening and closing ceremonies of the
1990 Vancouver Gay Games, listed in the VIDEOS/FILMS section of this list,
under Celebration ’90.
100% Woman
SEE Videos section of this list
Barnes, Brenda.
“Wide World of Sports: Gay Games
(Un)Covered.” Fuse [
(Winter 1991): 5-6.
Discusses the poor (“pathetic”) media coverage of “Celebration 90:
Gay Games
III and Cultural Festival,” held in
Author points out that “with over 7,300 athletes, [this] was the biggest
amateur sporting event in the world this year” (p. 6). She says also
that “the
going to cover these games as an athletic event…[because] the ‘Games’
weren’t recognized as internationally sanctioned meets” (p. 5).
Caudwell, Jayne.
“Sex and Politics: Sites of Resistance in Women’s Football.”
In The Sport Studies Reader, Section seven. Edited by Alan Tomlinson.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes about the
article: “Asserts that football has been seen for far too long as a
dominant male practice. Recognition of the negotiation by gay sportsmen
and women of queer space for sports is a reminder of the heterosexual
male dominance of football space.”
“City
Scores Gay Games:
Gazette [
Cohen, Elissa.
“Enabling Factors of a Healthy Lesbian Identity in High Performance Coaches.”
B.Kin. (Hons.) thesis,
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33643506.
“Damien, John (1933-86),” by Donald W. McLeod. In Who’s Who in Contemporary
Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, p. 102.
Edited by Robert Aldrich
and Garry Wotherspoon.
Routledge, 2001.
Activist
who worked in the horse-racing industry in
Davidson, Judy.
“Homophobia, Fundamentalism, and Canadian Tolerance: Enabling Gay Games
III in
151-175.
Davidson, Judy.
“Lesbians and the
(Spring 1996): 77-79 (2147 words).
Davidson, Judy, and Shogan, Debra.
“What’s Queer about Studying Up?: A Response to Messner.” Sociology of
Sport Journal 15(4) (Dec. 1998): 359-366.
“Contends that Messner’s queer theoretical approach to sport fails to
challenge heterosexual privilege….It is concluded that sociologists must
acknowledge their investment in heteronormativity before studies of
sport & sexuality can accurately be described as queer” – abstract from
Sociological Abstracts.
Davison, Kevin G., and Frank, Blye W.
“Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies in Sport: Changing Practices of Inequity.”
In Sport and Gender in
and Philip White.
2007.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes, from the work:
“We conclude this chapter with some recommendations for progressive
change in relation to lesbian, gay, and transgendered athletes.”
(A separate PsycINFO record for the book as a whole notes in that abstract,
from the book’s preface, that the book “will show how sport in
differently by girls and boys, women and men, straights and gays.”)
Deacon, James.
“Sex Sells, to a Point: While Katarina Witt Can Flaunt Her Sexuality, Many
Gay Athletes Hide Theirs.” Maclean’s [
p. 78 (1209 words).
Persons as subjects include Brian Orser.
“Dumaresq Entitled to Race as Woman.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], August 9, 2002,
p. S3.
Concerning transsexual Michelle Dumaresq,
Vancouver native, and
“
her by Pat Lynch, “She Said, She Said: Why Don’t Michelle Dumaresq’s
Teammates Want to Race with Her,” Explore, no. 1184 (Winter 2002),
p. 20.
Dutot, Carolyn L.
“Femininity, Sexuality and Sport: A Case
Study of
Varsity Athletes.” M.A. thesis,
(97 p.)
Broader than scope of this bibliography, but “[t]ogether the findings…
indicate that an emphasis on traditional expectations of femininity and
association between lesbian images and female athletes are found within
women’s sport….” – from ProQuest Digital Dissertations abstract.
Forbes, Susan L.; Lathrop, Anna H.; and Stevens, Diane E.
“A Pervasive Silence: Lesbophobia and Team Cohesion in Sport.”
Canadian Woman Studies 21(3)(Winter 2002): 24-28.
Authors at
Fusco, Caroline.
“Lesbians and Locker Rooms: The Subjective Experiences of Lesbians in Sport.”
MSc thesis,
(246 p.)
“Purpose…to explore the experience of being a lesbian in sport through
the stories of elite lesbian athletes….Individual, in-depth interviews with
eight lesbian athletes across a range of sports…” – abstract from Canadian
Research Index.
Fusco, Caroline.
“Setting the Record Straight: The Experiences of Lesbian Athletes.” Atlantis:
A Women’s Studies Journal 23(1) (Fall 1998): 69-79.
“Games Meant to Present New Insights into Gay World: Vancouver Offers
Homosexual Festival a Mixed Welcome.” Globe and Mail, July 30, 1990, p. A3.
About “Celebration 90” [the Gay Games III], held in Vancouver,
August 4-11, 1990.
“Gay Athletes.” Athletics [Toronto] August 1995, p. 6.
“Gay
Athletes Provide Real Life Role Models.”
Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
August 4, 1997, p. C11.
Named person: Muffin Spencer-Devlin.
“Gay Athletes Tell of Hardships. League of Their Own: Olympic Champ Tewksbury
Calls Sports ‘One of the Last
Closets’.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
June 26, 1999, p. A21.
Subjects: Mark Tewksbury, Mark Leduc, Savoy Howe, and Betty Baxter.
“Gay Games a Sporting Proposition.” Vancouver Sun, July 30, 1990, pp. A1, A8.
“Celebration 90” in Vancouver, August 4-11, 1990 [the Gay Games III].
“Gay, in Pro Sports.” Globe & Mail [
Ref.: CPI.Q index. Subject not known. Opinion pieces normally not
included, but exception here because of relative dearth of sport-related
items.
Genosko, Gary.
“Girl Jocks.” Border/Lines [Toronto] 40 (1995): 46.
Griffin, Pat.
“Homophobia in Physical Education.” CAHPER Journal 55(2)
(March-April 1989): 27-31.
CAHPER is Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and
Recreation. This article was, it seems, reprinted in Runner, citation to
which is in next entry.
Griffin, Pat.
“Homophobia in Physical Education.” Runner 29(3) (Fall 1991): 18-21.
Runner is journal of Alberta Teachers’ Association, Health and
Physical Education Council.
Hargreaves, Jennifer.
“Men and Women and the Gay Games.” In The Sport Studies Reader,
Section
seven. Edited by Alan Tomlinson.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes about this
article: “The profile of an event such as the Gay Games can contribute
to
the eradication of homophobia and discrimination.”
Henneman, Todd.
“The Games behind the Games: Will Gay and Lesbian Athletes Flock to
Later? Geography and George W. Bush Are Helping Shape Participants’
Decisions.” The Advocate [
Compiler normally does not include items from the gay periodical
press. Exception made here because of relative dearth of
sports-related items.
International Gay Rodeo Association
Ref.:
CSA Sociological Abstracts, which notes
descriptors.
King, Samantha.
“Consuming Compassion: AIDS, Figure Skating, and Canadian Identity.”
Journal of Sport and
Social Issues 24(2) (May 2000): 148-175.
Author affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Laird, Gordon.
“Bucking the System.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], July 12, 2003, pp. F4, F5.
Lengthy report, with photos, on gay rodeo, and specifically on the 10th
annual Rockies International, Canada’s only gay rodeo, held in Calgary.
Lavertu,
Yves.
“1er
Outgames mondiaux: la conférence de Montréal campe le combat sur le
terrain
des droits humains.” Journal du
Barreau [Montréal], no. 9 (Sept. 2006): 1.
Ref. : Index to Canadian Legal Literature
Lenskyj, Helen.
“Combatting Homophobia in Sport and Physical Education: Academic and
Professional Responsibilities.” Paper presented at the meeting of the North
American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1989.
(16 p.)
“Presents a discussion of events within national sport organizations that
have recently addressed the problem of homophobia in sports.” Includes
reference to Women’s Sports Foundation, Canadian Association for the
Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAWS), American Alliance for
Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), and
Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation
(CAHPER). Particular focus on CAAWS – NISC Gay & Lesbian
Abstracts, from ERIC.
Available in paper or on microfice from EDRS, Springfield, Virginia.
Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson.
Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and
Sexualities. Toronto: Women’s Press, 2003.
(174 p.; ISBNs
0889614164, 9780889614161)
“…case
studies from Canada, the United States and Australia…[regarding]
perpetuating
the chilly climate for female athletes in general, and for
lesbians
in particular….” – from www.cspi.org online,
viewed Feb. 17/09.
Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson.
“Women, Sport, and
Sexualities: Breaking the Silences.” In Sport
and Gender
in Canada, pagination
not known. Edited by Philip White and
Kevin
Young. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Relevance uncertain. Not seen.
Leyden, Judith M.
“Rising to the Challenge: Experience of Elite Female Ice Hockey Players.”
MSc thesis, University of Manitoba, 1996.
(166 p.)
Although scope of this thesis is much broader than that of this list, one of
the themes is “Heterosexism and Homophobia” – abstract from Canadian
Research Index.
“Mark Leduc, 1962-2009,” by Xtra staff. Xtra! [Toronto], July 30, 2009, p. 18.
Obituary of “gay Canadian boxer who won a silver medal at the 1992
Olympics in Barcelona….”
“Mark
Tewksbury Remembers the Heartache and Inner Turmoil Well.” Canadian
Press Newswire, June 7, 2001.
Ref.: CBCA electronic index record no. 5132645, as of February 26, 2002.
Morsch, Peggy.
“Vancouver Reaped Many Benefits as Host to Gay Games III.” Wisconsin
Light 3(20) (October 4-17, 1990): 10.
This is the third of three articles by Morsch on the Vancouver Gay Games.
The first two seem less relevant to this list, but may be found in the
same magazine in the August 23-Sept. 5, 1990 issue, p. 12 and the
Sept. 6-19, 1990 issue, pp. 16-17.
“No Place for Gays, Burns Says.” Globe and Mail, February 18, 1992, p. C12.
Concerns the National Hockey League.
“Orser: ‘I’ve Never Had to Lie about It.’ The Fans Have Been Great, but He’s
Still Afraid the Gay Issue Will Harm His Sport. ‘Kids Look Up to Us’.”
Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], December 9, 1998, pp. A1, A13.
“Out on the Slopes: Gay Skiers Discover Whistler.” Ski Canada 24(3) (Dec. 1995):
114-118.
Pronger, Brian, 1953-
The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
(305 p.; ISBN 0802077056)
Published also: Toronto: Summerhill Press, 1990.
Author at University of Toronto.
Review: Geoffrey S. Smith, Labour [Canada] 34 (1994): 372-374.
Pronger, Brian.
“Fear and Trembling:
Homophobia in Men’s Sport.” In Sport
and Gender in
Canada,
pagination not known. Edited by Philip
White and Kevin Young.
Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
Pronger is at University of Toronto.
Pronger, Brian, 1953-
“Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus.” Journal of Sport and
Social Issues 23(4) (1999): 373-389.
“It is argued [that] competitive sport plays an important role in the
reproduction of phallically aggressive and anally closed cultures of
desire,” and study refers to “the recently publicized homosexual subculture
in
Canadian boys’ and men’s ice hockey” – NISC Gay & Lesbian
Abstracts.
“Queer Rodeo: These Dudes Have a Thing for Roping Bulls…and for Other Guys.”
Now [Toronto], January 25-31, 2000, p. 24.
About the North American gay rodeo circuit and Hank, a gay Alberta
rancher and gay rodeo competitor. The seventh annual Canadian Rockies
International Rodeo, to be held in Calgary in 2001, is part of the circuit
that, in 2001, will feature 18 rodeos and includes “24 stops in peak years.”
Ravel, Barbara, and Rail, Geneviève.
“From Straight to Gaie? : Quebec Sportswomen’s Discursive Constructions of
Sexuality and Destabilization of the Linear Coming Out Process.”
Journal of Sport and Social Issues 32(1) (February 2008): 4-23.
Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts, which provides abstract, noting the
authors “explore the narratives of 14 young Francophone sportswomen
from
User might note some possible similarity with another paper by these
authors listed in this SPORTS section.
Ravel, Barbara, and Rail, Geneviève.
“The Lightness of Being ‘Gaie’: Discursive Constructions of Gender and
Sexuality in Quebec Women’s Sport.” International Review for the Sociology
of Sport 41(3-4) (Sept. 2006): 395-412.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract, noting the authors
“explore the narratives of 14 young Francophone women from
User might note some possible similarity with another paper by these
authors listed in this SPORTS section.
Robinson, Laura.
Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada’s National Sport.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1998.
(254 p.; ISBN 077107560X)
Relevance assumed from title. Not seen.
The
Spirit Captured: The Official Photojournal of Celebration ’90 – Gay Games III
&
Cultural Festival. Vancouver, B.C.: For Eyes Press, 1990.
(128 p., chiefly illustrations; ISBN 0969483708)
Sternbergh, Adam.
“Mad About the Boys: ‘Locker Room,’ the World’s First Gay-Themed Sports
Show, Fearlessly Confronts Sexual Taboos. On a Typical Episode, You
Might Find the Host Talking Up the Talents of, Say, Texas Ranger Ivan
Rodriguez: ‘He Makes Me Wonder Why Catchers Wear a Mask – Or
Pants!’.” Toronto Life, October 2002, pagination not known.
Ref.: CBCA electronic index, which provides full text as of
February 3, 2003 and describes the show as “a low-budget
digital cable program produced in Toronto.”
“Strike Three and Come Out: Women and Sports.” Broadside: A Feminist Review
6(10) (Aug. 1985): 5.
Sykes, Heather.
“Teaching Bodies, Learning Desires: Feminist-Poststructural Life Histories of
Heterosexual and Lesbian Physical Education Teachers in Western Canada.”
Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1998.
(229 p.)
Sykes, Heather.
“Turning the Closets Inside/Out: Towards a Queer-Feminist Theory in Women’s
Physical Education.” Sociology of Sport Journal 15(2) (1998): 154-173.
Author did Ph.D. at University of British Columbia; see preceding entry.
Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock.
(262 p.; ISBN 0470837357)
Review by Laura
Robinson, Globe and Mail,
p. D12
Theberge, Nancy.
“Gender, Sport, and the Construction of Community: A Case Study from Women’s
Ice Hockey.” Sociology of Sport Journal 12(4) (1995): 389-402.
Indexing terms used by NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts include both
“Canada” and “Lesbian movement.” Not seen.
Traendly, Cheryl A.
The Women: Gay Games III, Vancouver, Canada: Celebration ’90.
1st ed.;
(96 p., chiefly illustrations; ISBN 0963438999)
Uchacz, Christopher P.
“Masculinities: Variations on the Hegemonic Masculine Identity by University
Male Athletes.” MHK thesis,
(223 p.)
Three types of “masculinities” distinguished: “integrationist,”
“segregationist,” and “individualist”…. The individualists and
integrationists were found to “support equal opportunity in sport
for both female athletes and gay male athletes” – abstract from
Canadian Research Index.
“The Unspoken Sexuality of Sport.” Globe and Mail, July 30, 1990, p. A12.
Van Ingen, Cathy.
“Unmapping Social Space: The
Geographies of Resistance.” Ph.D.
thesis,
(240 leaves)
Ref,: AMICUS catalogue record no. 28125859, which applies the
descriptors Toronto
Frontrunners, Gay communities –
Runners (Sports) –
Webb, Margaret.
“Goal
Oriented.”
Women’s Hockey Club of Toronto, which the article qualifies as
“the biggest lesbian league in the world.”