About the Editors
About the Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Shifting Research Accounts on Sexual and Gender Minority Athletes, Eric Anderson and Joaquín Piedra
Part I: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Chapter 2 LGBT sport clubs: Origin and historical changes in Spain and Latin America, by Joan Miró & Joaquín Piedra
Chapter 3 Coming Out of the Closet: A Description of LGBT Research on Sports in Brazil, by Vinnicius Laurindo & Mariana Zuaneti Martins
Chapter 4 Homohysteria, cultural change, and 'pseudo-inclusivity': An analysis of attitudes toward sexual diversity, by Joaquín Piedra, Rafael Garcia-Perez, & Alex Channon
Part II: Sexual Orientation and Sports
Chapter 5 Conceptualising Sexuality through the Mexican Martial Art of Xilam, by George Jennings
Chapter 6 Discrimination, feeling of discomfort and prejudice in Mexican sport, according to sex and sexual orientation, by Oswaldo Ceballos, Jeanette M. López-Walle, Rosa E. Medina-Rodríguez, José L. Tristán-Rodríguez, & Luis T. Ródenas-Cuenca
Chapter 7 More than a man: Richarlyson, ambiguous and non-orthodox masculinities in South American football, by Jorge Knijnik
Chapter 8 Policy and practice of LGBT persons' sport participation in Colombia, by Angélica Sáenz-Macana, Javier Gil-Quintana, Sofía Pereira-García, & José Devís-Devís
Part III: Transgender Issues and Sports
Chapter 9 Trans masculinities on the Sport courts of Brazil, "the country of football" by Julian Pegoraro Silvestrin & Alexandre Fernandez Vaz
Chapter 10 Educational trajectories and participation of transgender women in sports in Argentina, by Magalí Perez-Riedel & Pablo A. Scharagrodsky