LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality

by Kirstin Cronn-Mills and Alex Jackson Nelson

In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women's World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers' minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender.

It hasn't always been this way. Many great athletes have stayed in the closet their whole lives, or at least until retirement. Social attitudes, institutional policies, and laws are slow...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146778012X
• ISBN13: 9781467780124
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary