The lavender locker room : 3000 years of great athletes whose sexual orientation was different /
An anthology of historical essays previously featured on outsports.com The Lavender Locker Room chronicles the lives of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender athletes over the past three millennia. Among the noteworthy sports figures featured are golfer Babe Didrikson, boxer Wilhelm von Homburg, p...
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Beverly Hills, CA :
Wildcat Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Achilles and Patroclus : how Hollywood de-gayed a great sports story
- Joan of Arc : jouster and sports icon for the ages
- Gays with blades : 5000 years of fencing
- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham : pioneer breeder of racehorses
- Alberto Santos-Dumont : aerial sportsman and pioneering balloonist
- Bill Tilden : men's tennis re-invented
- Amelia Earhart : odd girl of air racing
- Ana María Martínez Sagi : Spain's "virgin of the stadium"
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : golfing amazon of the newsreels
- Tamara and Irina Press : the rise and fall of gender testing
- Wilhelm von Homburg : bad boy of boxing
- Erik Schinegger : an intersex epic in alpine skiing
- Gay pioneers on ice : figure skating
- Rodeo : real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain
- Jim Bouton : gay baseball players and "the book"
- John Damien's last ride
- Diana Nyad : diva of distance swimming
- Martina Navratilova : revolutionary with a racket
- David Kopay : a pro football player looks ahead.