| Description |
viii, 345 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Gay athletes -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
1889135070 paperback |
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9781889135076 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9781889135076 |
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