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Jocks : true stories of America's gay male athletes / by Dan Woog.
LIBRA GV697.A1 W687 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woog, Dan, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay athletes--United States--Biography.
- Gay athletes.
- Male homosexuality--United States--Case studies.
- Male homosexuality.
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Sports--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Gay people and sports--United States.
- Gay people and sports.
- Sports--Psychological aspects.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Alyson Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- Profiles several dozen young male athletes who have in most cases "come out" as homosexual to their coaches, teammates, and fellow students, with advice for coaches on dealing with homophobia.
- Contents:
- The cross-country coach and his runners
- The tennis player
- The addicted athlete
- The hockey referee
- The football player and his father
- The wrestlers
- The roommates
- The boyfriend
- The swim coaches
- The straight athletes
- The suicidal jock
- The flirt
- The soccer coaches
- The semi-out ivy league runner
- The nonparticipant
- Time-out : the author's story
- The ex-football-playing workshop leader
- The phys ed teacher
- The quiet high school athletes
- The organizer
- The Catholic school girls' coach
- The reflective runner
- The impostor
- The media relations director
- The partners
- The gymnast
- The hockey player-coach
- The national education leader
- Appendix : the strategies.
- Notes:
- The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Woog, Dan, 1953- Jocks.
- ISBN:
- 1555833993
- 9781555833992
- OCLC:
- 37432758
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