Gay Games

Performing 'community' out from the closet of the locker room

Bibliographic Data

ID3977660
AuthorsGordon Waitt (0000-0003-1123-1288, University of Wollongong, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume4
Issue2
Pages167-183
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649360309067
OpenAlexW2084034978
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited34

Matters of community, performativity, bodies, space, belonging, oppression, resistance and their relationship to culture are explored in this paper within the context of Sydney's 2002 Gay Games. I begin the paper considering how the everyday meaning and practices of sports produce spaces that are oppressive to many gay men. I then introduce the Gay Games as a site of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, and intersex resistance, established to rupture stereotypes of heteronormativity in sports. Drawing upon my own research of Sydney's Gay Games I next explore how willingness to participate amongst self-identifying gay men depends upon how they understood their performance within the context of the event. I conclude the paper by arguing that willingness to participate in Sydney's Gay Games illustrates fundamental issues about the connectedness of bodies and space through the discursive body as space and the material body in space. Keywords: SportsPerformanceCommunityBodiesGayGay GamesSydney

Aesthetics · Art · Closet · Context (archaeology · Heteronormativity · Lesbian · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Queer · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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