Sportswriting

Most of these stories appeared in the Village Voice, whose sports section circa 1991 to 1995 was unique and has not since been equalled. (It’s a shadow of its former self now despite valiant efforts by the current editor.) You absolutely will not find coverage on these specific topics anywhere else.

See also: Blog entries on sports.

• Disabled sports
  • Keeping crips out of the Olympics, with a sidebar on adding sports to the Olympics
  • Casey Pieretti, amputee skater
  • Nondisabled athletes in wheelchair sports, with a sidebar on tennis
• Gay and lesbian sports
  • Grappling with an image: John Du Pont’s shooting of wrestler David Schultz exposed Du Pont’s harem of amateur wrestlers, and shed light on the homoeroticism of the sport (2010.04.07)
  • Sodomite invasion! Avowed homosexualist infiltrates NFL dressing room – but global apocalypse averted (2001.11.02)
  • The lasting lessons of Louganis (2001.11.02)
  • “Follow your nose”: At a wrestling meet? Moi? (at fawny.org)
  • The Locker as Closet: Queer activists say: “We are everywhere.” So where are the gays in high-performance sport?
  • Gay Games stories
    • Gay Games shenanigans: Behind the organization of the Games
    • Double Jeopardy: AIDS and gay denial
    • Sanctioning of sports in the Gaymes: Blessing or curse?
    • The Glory of the Gay Games: How the Gaymes came to be, and some controversies they raise
    • The End... of the Beginning: Wrapping up Gay Games IV
    • See also my analysis of Gay Games VI bid comparisons
• Miscellaneous
  • Basic black, basic instinct: The psychological effects of black uniforms (2001.11.02)
  • Not Exactly Off the Record: My Day in the Maw of the TSN Gag Machine: In 1998, I “tried out” for the writers’ room at TSN
  • The Australian Institute of Sport and its Canadians
  • Women’s hockey finally getting its props
  • They Traumatize Horses, Don’t They? The only beings who can consent to involvement in sports are human beings
  • A review of The New Lords of the Rings: Olympic Corruption and How to Buy Gold Medals
  • Hirsute men in sports: The unofficial enemy of all that is right and pure

Updated 2011.06.25 17:47