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Learning From Our Different & Common Experiences in Sports: What Can
LGBT Athletics Take from Race, Gender and Disability in Sports
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Also see:
+ High School Athletics Panel (Sat, Mar 27)
+ Collegiate Athletics Panel (Sat, Mar
27)
+ Keynote Panel on Race and Racism in
LGBT Athletics (Sat, Mar 27)
+ The Truth About Love - PFLAG
Parents Talk About Their GLBT Children (Sat, Mar 27)
+ The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Project
to Eliminate Homophobia panel and the showing of “It Takes a Team”
(Sun, Mar 28)
+
Athlete Scholarship Fund Raising Dinner
(separate fee) (Sat, Mar 27)
Day | Beginning Time |
Duration |
Event |
Sat, Mar 27, 2004 |
1:45 PM
3:45 PM | 2 hours |
Learning From Our Different & Common Experiences in
Sports: What Can LGBT Athletics Take from Race, Gender and Disability in
Sports |
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About National Center for Lesbian Rights
(www.nclrights.org)
NCLR is a national, lesbian, feminist,
non-profit law firm.. Our mission is to create a world in which
every lesbian can live fully, free from discrimination. For the past
27 years, through impact litigation, public policy advocacy, public
education and free legal services, we have advanced the legal and
human rights of lesbians, gay men and bisexual and transgender
individuals across the United States. NCLR is confronting
institutionalized homophobia in professional, collegiate and high
school athletics through a nationwide campaign with its newest
Homophobia in Sport Project.
About Center for the Study of Sport in
Society (www.sportinsociety.org)
The Mission of Northeastern University's
Center for the Study of Sport in Society is to increase awareness of
sport and its relation to society, and to develop programs that
identify problems, offer solutions, and promote the benefits of
sport. The Center employs the unique power and influence of sport to
create positive social change. Sport in Society promotes the values
of diversity, conflict resolution, violence prevention, equal sports
opportunities - on and off the field, community service, education
and research, and disability advocacy and inclusion. Sport in
Society impacts middle and high school students, college
student-athletes, professional athletes, and adult administrators.
Learning From Our Different & Common
Experiences in Sports: What Can LGBT Athletics Take from Race,
Gender and Disability in Sports
This panel will share experiences from the civil rights movement,
the women in sports movement, the fight for equal treatment for the
disabled, and other historic fights for equality. It will address
how the lessons learned from these battles apply to the challenges
being faced today by the LGBT athletics community.
Speakers:
- Eli Wolff (moderator)
- Peter Roby
- Helen Carroll
- Pat Griffin
If you would like to come, please consider
seeking funding from your school or district's development funds, as
well as the local Gay
Straight Alliance, the local NCAA chapter. Please
contact us if you seek this assistance.
Eli Wolff:
Eli Wolff is the Project Director of the Disability in Sport
Initiative within the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at
Northeastern University. Through the Initiative, Eli engages in
research, education, and advocacy activities related to athletes
with disabilities in sport. He advises and consults with national
and international sport and disability related organizations.
Eli organized a brief for the Supreme Court, on behalf of the
national disabled sports organizations, in support of Casey Martin
for his case against the PGA. In 2001, Eli received the first,
annual Casey Martin Award, given by Nike, recognizing an individual
making a difference, internationally, for people with disabilities
in sports.
In 2002, Eli represented the United States Olympic Committee at the
2002 International Olympic Academy of the International Olympic
Committee held in Olympia, Greece. Eli will return to the Academy
this summer as a Group Discussion Coordinator.
Eli is an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play, an international
humanitarian organization committed to using sport as a vehicle to
improving the lives of the most disadvantaged children and their
communities throughout the world.
Eli is a member of the United States Paralympic Soccer Team, and has
competed in the 1999 and 2002 Pan American Games for the Disabled,
the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games, and the 2001 World Cup for the
Disabled.
Peter Roby:
Peter P. Roby is the Director of Northeastern University’s Center
for the Study of Sport in Society.
Roby, formerly vice president of U.S. marketing for Reebok
International, brings 20 plus years of experience in athletics and
marketing to the Center for the Study of Sport in Society.
At Reebok, Peter was responsible for the development and execution
of marketing plans in the United States. He also oversaw strategic
planning, grass roots marketing and sponsorships. Roby joined Reebok
in 1991, and held the positions of Group Director of US Brand
Marketing, as well as, Director of Key Account Marketing and
Director of US Sports Marketing.
Before joining Reebok, Peter served six seasons as head basketball
coach for Harvard University and three years as Harvard's assistant
basketball coach. Before joining Harvard, Peter was the assistant
coach at Stanford University, Dartmouth College and the U.S.
Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Roby is a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College where he was co-captain
of the basketball team and earned a B.A. in Government.
Helen Carroll:
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Homophobia in Sports Project Coordinator
Helen Carroll joined NCLR in August 2001 to develop NCLR’s
Homophobia in Sports Project. After spending the majority of her
athletic career coaching basketball, tennis plus track and field,
Helen became well known in the sports world as an acclaimed National
Championship Basketball Coach from the University of North Carolina
Asheville. Helen has been a National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Athletic Director for 12 years at Mills College in California
and now devotes all her efforts to fight homophobia in sport. She is
a is featured in both Dee Mossbacher’s award-winning film, OUT FOR A
CHANGE: ADDRESSING HOMOPHOBIA IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, and in author Pat
Griffin’s book, STRONG WOMEN, DEEP CLOSETS. Helen is a dynamic
speaker having been interviewed in numerous films and television
specials on LGBT Issues in sport. Presently, she represents NCLR’s
Project with major national sports organizations in both legal and
educational aspects. NCLR is on the steering committee of the
Women’s Sports Foundation’s Educational Project to Eliminate
Homophobia in Sport.
“I believe the focus of the LGBT Sports Movement of 2004 must be our
learning from past civil liberty movements. Lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgendered sports persons will be successful in achieving
fair treatment and opportunity ONLY if women, people of color and
those differing from traditional sports leaders are on an equal
footing in the visibility and leadership of this movement.
RUN A MILE IN MY SHOES...WILL OFFER PERSONAL STORIES AND EXEMPLIFY
LIFE WORK OF EXTRAORDINARY LEADERS. WE NEED ONLY TO LISTEN CAREFULLY
AS WE LEARN ABOUT THE CHALLENGES OF THESE DIFFERENCES AND THE
STRENGTHS THEY MAY BRING TO EACH OF US!”
Pat Griffin:
Pat Griffin is a professor in the Social Justice Education Program
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She leads classes and
workshops on sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism/homophobia, and
other forms of social injustice in education. Her research and
writing interests focus on heterosexism/homophobia in education,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teachers and students, and
heterosexism/homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in
women's sports. Dr. Griffin has written a book entitled, Strong
Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports, published by
Human Kinetics, 1998. She is also co-editor of Teaching For
Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and
Trainers, Routledge, 1997.
For the past 20 years Dr. Griffin has led seminars on diversity
issues and lesbian and gay issues in athletics at numerous colleges
and universities as well as at coaches and athletic administrators’
association meetings around the United States and Canada. She worked
with the Project to Eliminate Homophobia in Sport to create the
educational kit It Takes a Team: Making Sport Safe for Lesbian and
Gay Athletes and Coaches. She served as an expert consultant on this
topic for the Women’s Sports Foundation, Out For a Change:
Addressing Homophobia in Women’s Sports (an educational video), the
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, the Massachusetts
Department of Education, and for numerous articles in the press, on
television and in periodical publications. Dr. Griffin has appeared
on ESPN, HBO Real Sports, and ABC Sports Outside the Lines.
Dr. Griffin played basketball and field hockey and swam at the
University of Maryland and coached high school basketball and field
hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also coached swimming and
diving at the University of Massachusetts. She was a member of the
U.S. Field Hockey squad in 1971. She won a bronze medal in the
triathlon at Gay Games IV in 1994 and a gold medal in the hammer
throw at Gay Games V in 1998. She has had short stories and first
person accounts selected for publication in Sportdykes: Stories from
on and Off the Field, Tomboys: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do, A Whole
Other Ball Game: Women’s Literature on Women’s Sport, Whatever It
Takes: Women on Women's Sports.
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