Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert Mccall, Sandy Parker, David Wilson, Sarah Vaillancourt, Michelle Dumaresq, Brian Pockar, Matthew Hall, Betty Baxter, Mark Leduc, Greg Duhaime. Excerpt: Betty Baxter (born 1952) is a Canadian athlete, activist and politician. She was a member of the women's national volleyball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and was later named the team's head coach in 1979. However, she was fired from that role in 1982, despite having been named the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union 's coach of the year, after the media began to report rumours that she was lesbian . Baxter was not actually out as lesbian at the time, but subsequently came out and served as a board member of the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver . She also cofounded the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and the National Coaching School for Women. Baxter ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in Vancouver Centre in the 1993 federal election, in a high-profile race against Prime Minister Kim Campbell, but was not elected. Electoral record Canadian federal election, 1993 References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Brendan Burke Brendan G. Burke (December 8, 1988 February 5, 2010) was an openly gay athlete and the younger son of Brian Burke, general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and of the US Olympic hockey team . In November, 2009, he made international headlines for coming out, advocating for tolerance and speaking out against homophobia in professional sports. He was viewed as a "pioneer in a sport that has never had an out athlete." Early life Burke was born on December 8, 1988, in Vancouver, BC and was the younger son and third of four children of his father's first marriage. His par...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lgbt Sportspeople from Canada: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert McCall, Sandy Parker. To get started finding Lgbt Sportspeople from Canada: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert McCall, Sandy Parker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
70
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155214129
Lgbt Sportspeople from Canada: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert McCall, Sandy Parker
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert Mccall, Sandy Parker, David Wilson, Sarah Vaillancourt, Michelle Dumaresq, Brian Pockar, Matthew Hall, Betty Baxter, Mark Leduc, Greg Duhaime. Excerpt: Betty Baxter (born 1952) is a Canadian athlete, activist and politician. She was a member of the women's national volleyball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and was later named the team's head coach in 1979. However, she was fired from that role in 1982, despite having been named the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union 's coach of the year, after the media began to report rumours that she was lesbian . Baxter was not actually out as lesbian at the time, but subsequently came out and served as a board member of the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver . She also cofounded the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and the National Coaching School for Women. Baxter ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in Vancouver Centre in the 1993 federal election, in a high-profile race against Prime Minister Kim Campbell, but was not elected. Electoral record Canadian federal election, 1993 References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Brendan Burke Brendan G. Burke (December 8, 1988 February 5, 2010) was an openly gay athlete and the younger son of Brian Burke, general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and of the US Olympic hockey team . In November, 2009, he made international headlines for coming out, advocating for tolerance and speaking out against homophobia in professional sports. He was viewed as a "pioneer in a sport that has never had an out athlete." Early life Burke was born on December 8, 1988, in Vancouver, BC and was the younger son and third of four children of his father's first marriage. His par...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lgbt Sportspeople from Canada: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert McCall, Sandy Parker. To get started finding Lgbt Sportspeople from Canada: Pat Patterson, Brendan Burke, Brian Orser, Mark Tewksbury, Toller Cranston, Robert McCall, Sandy Parker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.