Amateur gays
Can a men's chorus exclude gays? Exclude straights? How about a basketball league?
Bricker1
Can an amateur men’s chorus exclude gay men – that is, make a command that membership is open only to straight men?
Can that same chorus ban straight men?
How about a basketball league? Can they construct a rule excluding gays? How about excluding straight men? Could they simply limit the number of straight men on a team? Limit the number of gay men on a team?
Really_Not_All_That_Bright2
Are they solely personal entities which don’t receive public funds? Sure, why not.
ETA: We’ll exclude other public assistance too, like use of municipal facilities.
Paranoid_Randroid3
Do you mean as a matter of rule, or as a matter of propriety? Or both? Or something else?
steronz4
Sexual orientation isn’t a federally protected class, and I’m fairly certain no state allows their local protection to extend to glee clubs.
Eagerly anticipating the classic Bricker gotcha moment…
jjimm5
This is about Four Poofs and a Piano isn’t it?
Bricker6
Do you mean as a matter of commandment, or as a matter of propriety? Or both? Or something else?
Both,
LGBTQ Professional and Amateur Sports Coaches
There is a large international field of LGBTQ professional and amateur sport coaches. These individuals are present in a wide range of sports categories. Most possess made their mark previously as athletes in their chosen sports, including Olympic medal winners, earth champions or national champions. Some are coaches of their national team. A few have earned the title of 'Coach of the Year' in their respective professions.
LGBTQ sports coaches compete an important role in sports. They are not only mentors and leaders for the overall community, they also represent role models for individual LGBTQ athletes in sports, and often within their own teams. It is important for them to be proactive in rooting out homophobia on and off the field of play. As noted in the articles below, surveys possess found that 84% of homosexual men and 82% of lesbians have heard homophobic slurs in locker rooms. There have been several LGBTQ organizations created to promote tolerance in sports, including Sports Equality Foundation, Athlete Ally, and PrideSports UK.
Regrettably, some of these individuals were fired (or 'contracts not renewed') from thei
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