Helen Carroll

Gay athletes to raise awareness of homophobia in sport

SDGLN Staff
October 10th, 2012

PHILADELPHIA -- Out professional soccer player Joanna Lohman will headlining an event to raise awareness of homophobia and discrimination in sport.

The GO! (Generation Out!) Athletes event will be from 7 to 9 pm EDT on Thursday, Oct. 11, in Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The event will provide opportunities for the scholar athlete community to come together to hear stories by OUT sports role models. GO! Athletes envisions this relaunch as the first of many awareness-building initiatives to occur across the nation.

Groundbreaking Nike LGBT Sports Summit takes on bullying, homophobia and transphobia in sports

SDGLN Staff
June 19th, 2012

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Many of the nation’s top LGBT sports leaders joined Nike representatives at Nike World Headquarters for the first-ever Nike LGBT Sports Summit to combat bullying and anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination in sports.

Advocates and organizations pooled their expertise and strengths over four days — June 14 to June 17 — to develop a unified plan to end harassment and discrimination against LGBT athletes and coaches in kindergarten through high school, college, recreational sports and professional sports.

Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll honored for their significant work with LGBT youth sports

Cyd Zeigler, Jr.
January 5th, 2012

You’d be hard-pressed to name two people who have collectively had a stronger impact on the gay-sports movement than Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll.

These two pioneers have been working toward equality for the better part of 30 years.

They’ve visited high schools. They’ve talked to colleges. They’ve waged legal campaigns. They’ve educated educators.

And with more incredible work in 2011, our readers have named these two women our "Persons of the Year."

NCLR applauds new NCAA inclusionary policy regarding transgender athletes

SDGLN Staff
September 13th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recently announced that it has approved and clarified opportunities for transgender student athletes to participate on college athletic teams in accordance with their gender identity.

The NCAA worked closely with NCLR's Sports Project and Griffin Educational Consulting on the policy.

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