Talk:Homosexuality in sports

Is this worldwide?

Is homosexuality only confined to US citizens ? Dvergne 07:47, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

definition of 'Homosexuality'?

Do transgender people count? I have a kickboxer to add, but while they were born male, and are attracted to males, I believe that they would self-identify as a straight female. What's the policy? I checked the Homosexuality article, but it was totally useless, there was like a one-sentence definition, and then the rest was devoted to criticisms. Cmurphynz 06:53, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

Also, perhaps we should rethink the sentence about full-contact sports? in the list we have a boxer, two rugby players, two people who play 'football' (I presume this means American Football?) and, if I add Nong Thoom, one kickboxer. Considering how short the total list is, that is not a negligible proportion. Cmurphynz 06:59, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

I'm assuming trannies and bi people do count as homosexuals. Dvergne 07:48, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

yeah, i think I'll go with that.Cmurphynz 08:20, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

recent additions.

I had a look at the recent additions, and there doesn't seem to be much evidence for Adrian Sutil being gay. I found a lot of speculation, but no proof. For Nelson piquet, I found a lot of evidence for his girlfriends (including in a fairly serious paper[1]) but the sources for him being gay were a bit scarcer on the ground. He could of course be bisexual, but I'm not totally certain. Could someone that knows more about this than i do track down some better sources? thanks. Cmurphynz 08:19, 18 October 2012 (EDT)