Laura Moore in Ithaca

March 20, 2009

Conference shines light on sexuality in sports

Former athlete, journalist speak about slowly changing culture

By Stacey Shackford
Correspondent

ITHACA - Hundreds of people convened at Ithaca College this week for some frank discussions about sex and sports, but it wasn't of the typical locker room banter variety.

In fact, as they would learn, it wasn't the type of discussion that would ever be held in most locker rooms, where "don't ask, don't tell" is often the unspoken rule - at the Sport, Sexuality and Culture Conference, academics were out in the open in their explorations of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and masochism.

More than 120 registrants and hundreds of students and college community members were expected to attend 56 sessions by 110 presenters from around the world who flew in for the three-day conference, which began Wednesday.

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