Virtually unnoted: The Nigerian women’s national team has been purged of all its lesbian players…after which it was featured on FIFA’s website for the upcoming Women’s World Cup. While male gay athletes stay in the closet, the media’s homophobia does the closeting for us about gay female athletes — never covering the momentous moments in their lives beyond the field. “The sexism of the world of sports is related to its homophobia; the feminism of women’s sports spaces is related to the queerness of those space – which, given the sexism and homophopia of mainstream sports spaces, leaves little room for representing the specificity of the athletes in women’s sports at all.” (From a Left Wing)
The Soft Homophobia of Women’s Soccer Coverage
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