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The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender community is prevalent within sports across the world.There have been several notable outspoken homosexual athletes, including John Curry, Billie Jean King, boxer Orlando Cruz and Jason Collins.In the 1980s, Tom Waddell, an Olympic decathlete, hosted the first Gay Games in San Francisco.
26 lip 2024 · Although there has been a significant increase in the participation of openly LGBTQIA + athletes in sports events designed for this community, many other LGBTQIA + individuals, especially transgender people, experience silencing in the sports context (Hargie et al., 2015).
21 cze 2024 · In the women’s game, 13% of players identified as LGBTQ+ at the 2023 World Cup, a huge cause for celebration in a sport where identifying as queer still carries negative stigma and judgement.
14 cze 2023 · The LGBTQ+ movement has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade at Olympic Summer and Winter Games. Just 23 brave out Olympians competed at London 2012 while nearly 200 – 186 in total – proudly shared their personal stories at Tokyo 2020 in 2021, marked on the way with milestones for non-binary and transgender athletes.
17 cze 2024 · In the second section, we examined several LGBTQ+ topics at the intersection of sport, health and education. The articles found that LGBTQ+ people have negative sporting relationships, are viewed negatively by coaches, are excluded based on gender and are constructed as ‘dangerous’ to others.
1 cze 2023 · This study aimed to explore and describe the experiences of LGBTQ student-athletes to identify ways in which athletic staff, coaches, and others can support LGBTQ youth's safe participation in sports.
15 cze 2022 · During Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month, which is being celebrated around the world in June, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is highlighting how the Olympic Games are a powerful platform to foster inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination, and where athletes and Olympic Partners have inspired the ...
