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2011 Outgames and Human Rights Conference Presentations

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Coaching lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender athletes: Training needs for Canadian coaches
Guylaine Demers, Université Laval
The main aim of this project is to help coaches learn how to create a welcoming environment for LGBT Canadian athletes by identifying the major challenges and fears they face when they have to coach LGBT athletes. This research project was designed to identify the training needs of coaches concerning coaching LGBT athletes.
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Addressing Homophobia in Sport: The Canadian Experience
Karin Lofstrom & Jennifer Birch-Jones, CAAWS
This presentation provides an overview of the work to address homophobia in sport in Canadian sport, and highlights the strategies needed for sustained change.
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3. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Journey Toward LGBT Equality in School-Based Athletic Programs in the United States
Pat Griffin, Changing The Game: The GLSEN Sports Project
Helen Carroll, National Center for Lesbian Rights Sports Project
The Journey Towards LGBT Equality in School- Based Athletic Programs in the United States
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Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward by the UK Government Equalities Office.
Last June Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality, the first ever cross government work plan on LGB&T rights was published. This document now builds on that work to set out clearly how the UK Government will take action to tackle LGB&T inequality. | PDF 351 KB |

UK Rugby Football League: Guidance for Rugby League Clubs: Challenging Anti Gay (homophobic) Abuse and Behaviour
The Rugby Football League (RFL) in the UK has created a new resource to address homophobia in sport. This is the first in a series of reports the RFL plans to create to make sport more welcoming of diversity. Guidance for Rugby League Clubs: Challenging Anti Gay (homophobic) Abuse and Behaviour offers practical advice on how to address homophobic language within club environment s as well as on game day. | PDF |

Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project is an education and advocacy initiative focused on addressing LGBT issues in K-12 school-based athletic and physical education programs. Explore the Changing the Game site and see how you can use their resources, activities and projects to make your school athletic and physical education programs respectful, safe and inclusive for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities. (http://sports.glsen.org/)

Come Out to Play: The Sports Experience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Victoria by Caroline Symons et al. | PDF 834 KB, 91 pages|

A Review of Sexual Orientation in Sport by Celia Brackenridge et al. | PDF 586 KB, 153 pages|

Declaration Against any Form of Discrimination in the Sports World – Be a part of the annual International Day Against Homophobia campaign, and support Fondation Émergence in its fight against discrimination in the sports world. www.fondationemergence.org

Homophobia in Sport — Fact of Life, Taboo Subject - Guylaine Demers’ Taboo paper - The Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching | PDF 222 KB, 13 pages| HTML |(www.coach.ca)

Lesbian and Gay Rights in the World - ILGA (International Lesbian and Gay Association) has created an innovative global interactive map showing LGBT specific information for every country around the world. | HTML |

Harassment-free sport: Guidelines to address homophobia and sexuality discrimination in sport – Australian Sports Commission | PDF 165 KB, 24 pages |(www.ausport.gov.au)

Harassment-free Sport Information Sheet Series – Australian Sports Commission | HTML | (www.ausport.gov.au)

The Positive Approach: Recognizing, Challenging, and Eliminating Negative Recruiting Based on Actual or Perceived Sexual Orientation – National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) | PDF 396 KB, 22 pages| (www.nclrights.org)

Youth Speak Up About Homophobia and Transphobia – Egale Canada published the Phase One Report of its First National Climate Survey on Homophobia in Canadian Schools | HTML | (www.egale.ca)

It Takes A Team! Education Kit – Women’s Sports Foundation | PDF 590 KB, 92 pages | (www.womenssportsfoundation.org)

Documenting Visibility: Selected Biography on Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health – British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health | PDF 243 KB, 65 pages | (www.bccewh.bc.ca)

Issues and Research: Homophobia Resources – US Women’s Sports Foundation | HTML | (www.womenssportsfoundation.org)

Out in the Open – Training & Conditioning Magazine | HTML | (www.training-conditioning.com)

No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians: How Homophobia Still Rules in Sports – A documentary by Dee Mosbacher. Training Rules examines how women’s collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, colludes in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes. To learn more about the film and/or to watch the trailer, visit | HTML | www.trainingrules.com

Out for a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women’s Sports – A documentary by Dee Mosbacher. Out for a Change exposes the devastating emotional impact that homophobia has on all women athletes, regardless of their sexual orientation. To learn more about the film and/or to watch the trailer, visit www.womanvision.org/out-for-a-change.html.

Books

Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport
by: Susan K. Cahn. www.amazon.com

Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality
by: Helen Lenskyj. www.amazon.com

Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport
by: Pat Griffin. www.amazon.com