The Closet in Sports

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https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

Recently there has been some controversy about sexualities and sexual practices of athletes in the professional world of sports. More than that, what has disturbed public opinion is the phenomenon of the homosexuality in sports toward the process of coming out. This article aims to analyze ethnographic data collected in LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, others) sports championships, trying to observe how athletes’ speeches about their sexualities challenge a complex system of control (and self-control) of their own sexualities and of the others’ sexualities, building up a framework of references about the secret of the closet. Thinking over (homo)sexualities in these scenarios matter in sense that it poses, face to face, the fields of study of Gender and Sexuality at the intersection with the world of sports.

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Author Biography

Wagner Xavier Camargo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

Pós-doutor em Antropologia Social

Doutor em Ciências Humanas

Mestre em Educação Física Adaptada

Bacharel em Sociologia

Licenciado em Antropologia

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Published

2018-04-24

How to Cite

Camargo, W. X. (2018). The Closet in Sports. Revista Estudos Feministas, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2018)

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Thematic Articles

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