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‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union Open

Richard Pringle, Erik Denison · 2025

Research concerning masculinities and homosexuality reveals contradictory findings, with inclusive masculinity theorists uniquely declaring the declining significance of homophobia in sports. To examine these contested findings, we intervi…

Effectiveness of an educational intervention targeting homophobic language use by young male athletes: a cluster randomised controlled trial Open

Erik Denison, Nicholas Faulkner, Kerry O’Brien, Ruth Jeanes, Mitch Canning · 2023

Objective Homophobic language is common in male sport and associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes for all sport participants, but particularly for gay or bisexual youth populations. Evidence-based interventions are nee…

PrePrint: Effectiveness of an educational intervention targeting homophobic language by young male athletes: a cluster randomised controlled trial Open

Erik Denison, Nicholas Faulkner, Kerry O’Brien, Ruth Jeanes · 2022

Background: Homophobic language is common in male sport and associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes for athletes. Evidence-based interventions are needed to reduce such language, and foster safer sport settings. Purpos…

Correction to: The Relationship Between ‘Coming Out’ as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual and Experiences of Homophobic Behaviour in Youth Team Sports Open

Erik Denison, Ruth Jeanes, Nick Faulkner, Kerry O’Brien · 2021

Reviewing evidence of LGBTQ+ discrimination and exclusion in sport Open

Erik Denison, Nadia Bevan, Ruth Jeanes · 2020

Sport organisations continue to place a low priority on addressing the exclusion and discrimination experienced by LGBTQ+ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning/queer, and sexual/gender diverse). It was previously thought this …

Relationships between attitudes and norms with homophobic language use in male team sports Open

Erik Denison, Nick Faulkner, Ruth Jeanes, Daniel Toole · 2020

Homophobic language use was related to norms, rather than homophobic attitudes. Interventions targeting changes to these norms could be an effective method to change this behaviour. This finding contributes to a growing body of evidence th…

The Relationship Between ‘Coming Out’ as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual and Experiences of Homophobic Behaviour in Youth Team Sports Open

Erik Denison, Ruth Jeanes, Nick Faulkner, Kerry O’Brien · 2020

Introduction Homophobia appears to be greater in sport settings than in others. However, little is known about whether lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) young people experience discriminatory behaviour in team sports because of their sexualit…

Out on the fields: The first international study on homophobia in sport (2015). Nielsen Sport, Bingham Cup 2014, Sydney Convicts, Sport Australia. Open

Erik Denison, Alistair Kitchen · 2020

Out on the Fields is the largest (N = 9494) and the first international study (six countries) conducted into homophobia in sport. It was released in May, 2015. The research was led by Erik Denison and Alistair Kitchen with data coll…

Evaluating LGBTI+ Inclusion within Sport and the Pride Cup Initiative Open

Ruth Jeanes, Karen Lambert, Justen O’Connor, Nadia Bevan, Erik Denison · 2020

In July 2019, VicHealth commissioned researchers from the Faculty of Education, Monash University to undertake an evaluation to measure the impact of the Pride Cup program and resources. Existing research highlights the lower participation…

Do LGBT Pride Games Stop Homophobic Language in Sport? Open

Erik Denison, Daniel Toole · 2020

Ice hockey, as a sport, has received praise for its efforts to promote the inclusion of gay and bisexual men, and more recently, lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people (Heraux 2019). The sport also pioneered the ‘pride game’ con…

"Understanding homophobic behaviour" for the National Rugby League's Respectful Relationships, Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling report Open

Erik Denison · 2020

This chapter reviewed the body of research that has sought to understand why homophobic language is used by male athletes in order to contextualise the findings from the National Rugby Leagues internal audit of player behaviour.

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