Last year we reported about a fantastic "Out" track team member that attended Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. His name is Jamal Brown. We congratulated him for his very personal story told on http://www.outsports.com/ web site. Jamal wrote back this week and asked the Federation of Gay Games to help him with a sports survey.
Jamal is working for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) as a Senior Legal Assistant. His current project is setting its sights on challenging homophobia and transphobia in sports. To determine how it can best do that, GLAD is researching the ways in which anti-gay and anti-transgender attitudes affect LGBT athletes and coaches. Its first step is collecting the stories of LGBT athletes, coaches and allies who can shed light on the challenges and barriers homophobia and transphobia present. Please take a moment to participate in this important work by sharing your story in the brief survey in the link below.
Jamal asks that we each add this to our Facebook pages and any LGBT sports team web sites or any other way we communicate to our athletes. He needs to hear our stories.
Here is the link to the survey: www.glad.org/sports
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