The lavender locker room : 3000 years of great athletes whose sexual orientation was different / by Patricia Nell Warren.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Beverly Hills, CA : Wildcat Press, 2006.Description: viii, 345 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1889135070
  • 9781889135076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.08664 22
LOC classification:
  • GV708.8 .W37 2006
Contents:
Achilles and Patroclus: how Hollywood de-gayed a great sports story -- Joan of Arc: jouster and sports icon for the ages -- Gays with blades: 5000 years of fencing -- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: pioneer breeder of racehorses -- Alberto Santos-Dumont: aerial sportsman and pioneering balloonist -- Bill Tilden: men's tennis re-invented -- Amelia Earhart: odd girl of air racing -- Ana María Martínez Sagi: Spain's "virgin of the stadium" -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias: golfing amazon of the newsreels -- Tamara and Irina Press: the rise and fall of gender testing -- Wilhelm von Homburg: bad boy of boxing -- Erik Schinegger: an intersex epic in alpine skiing -- Gay pioneers on ice: figure skating -- Rodeo: real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain -- Jim Bouton: gay baseball players and "the book" -- John Damien's last ride -- Diana Nyad: diva of distance swimming -- Martina Navratilova: revolutionary with a racket -- David Kopay: a pro football player looks ahead.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction GV 697 WAR 2006 1 Available autographed by author 18891350701
Book Book Stonewall Special collection GV 697 WAR 2006 2 Special Collection manuscript provided by author 18891350702

Achilles and Patroclus: how Hollywood de-gayed a great sports story -- Joan of Arc: jouster and sports icon for the ages -- Gays with blades: 5000 years of fencing -- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: pioneer breeder of racehorses -- Alberto Santos-Dumont: aerial sportsman and pioneering balloonist -- Bill Tilden: men's tennis re-invented -- Amelia Earhart: odd girl of air racing -- Ana María Martínez Sagi: Spain's "virgin of the stadium" -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias: golfing amazon of the newsreels -- Tamara and Irina Press: the rise and fall of gender testing -- Wilhelm von Homburg: bad boy of boxing -- Erik Schinegger: an intersex epic in alpine skiing -- Gay pioneers on ice: figure skating -- Rodeo: real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain -- Jim Bouton: gay baseball players and "the book" -- John Damien's last ride -- Diana Nyad: diva of distance swimming -- Martina Navratilova: revolutionary with a racket -- David Kopay: a pro football player looks ahead.

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