The LGBT Athletes and Moments That Changed the Sports World Forever
Cyd Zeigler
Thursday, 16 Oct 2014 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cyd Zeigler is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT sports issues, a cofounder of Outsports.com, and coauthor of The Outsports Revolution: Truth & Myth in the World of Gay Sports. He has written extensively on athletes coming out at all levels of sports and the impact homophobia has on closeted athletes. Most recently he was on the team that developed and helped execute the strategy for Michael Sam's coming out before the NFL draft. An award-winning journalist, Ziegler is credited with breaking various national stories, including the coming out of former professional athletes John Amaechi and Wade Davis, the groundbreaking interview with straight ally and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, and the first openly transgender college basketball player, Kye Allums.As the cofounder of the Nike LGBT Sports Coalition, Cyd Ziegler has his finger on the pulse of the LGBT sports movement. He serves on the Advisory Board for both GLSEN's Changing the Game and GO! Athletes. Ziegler has appeared on national television on ESPN, CNN, ABC, NBC and TruTV. He has been profiled by the New York Times and has been quoted as an LGBT sports expert in such media outlets as Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, NPR and the BBC. In addition to Outsports.com, he also writes for the Huffington Post and SB Nation. He has an undergraduate degree in communications from Stanford University.
Cosponsored By:
- Athletics
- Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
- Human Development & Family Studies
- Kinesiology
- LGBT Student Services
- LGBTA Alliance
- Margaret Sloss Women's Center
- Recreations Services
- Sociology
- Vice President for Student Affairs Office
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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