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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warren, Patricia Nell (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.