Setting the Record <em>Straight</em>: The Experiences of Lesbian Athletes

Authors

  • Caroline Fusco University of Manitoba

Keywords:

Athletes, Discrimination - Sports, Homophobia, Lesbian athletes, Sexual identity, Toronto (Ontario), Women atheletes

Abstract

In my master's thesis "Lesbians and Locker Rooms" I interviewed eight lesbian athletes and concluded that lesbian realities in sport can be connected to a larger set of practices which assist in the construction of a heteronormative order. In this paper I have reinterpreted previous interview material in order to examine the performances of both (homo/hetero)sexual identities in their sports in relation to this heteronormative order.

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Published

1998-10-01