Helen Carroll
(? - living) U.S.A.
Athletic diversity specialist, basketball
Helen joined the National Center for Lesbian Rights in August 2001 to lead the Homophobia in Sport Project. She is well known in the sports world as an acclaimed national Championship Basketball Coach from the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Helen has been a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Athletic Director for 12 years, and now devotes all her efforts to fight homophobia in sport.
Helen is blunt: "If we didn't have lesbians in sports, we wouldn't have women sports," she said, adding that straight and gay women need to team up to fight a bigger battle: sexism in sports. She is currently the Coordinator for the Homophobia in Sport Project for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) representing athletes, coaches, administrators and sport professionals who have been discriminated against in sport. Heln participated to the Gay Olympics.
Website: http://www.nclrights.org.
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