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Session II: Saturday 2:15-3:15 pm

OUR COMMUNITY: "Gays in Sport"

Coach Gumby will discuss the results of his latest research regarding openly gay athletes and he will discuss the mechanisms of homophobia that gay athletes must deal with. He will look at gay athletes in a historical perspective and suggest where the status of gay athletes might be going.

Presenter: Coach Eric "Gumby" Anderson came out of the closet as the nation's first openly gay high school coach in 1993, and has been lecturing and writing about gay athletes since. He has a Bachelor's in Health Science, a Masters in Sport Psychology, a Masters in Sociology, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Irvine, where he also teaches the sociology of sport, men and masculinities, and small group dynamics. Coach Gumby has coached for 16 years and has authored three books.

Room: Ucen Lobero