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Despite Olympic industry rhetoric extolling fair play, equality and the apolitical nature of sport, the Olympic Games have long served as a showcase for heteronormative sporting masculinities and femininities. Non-conforming women and members of sexual minorities are marginalized, and LGBT invisibility is the norm in Olympic and professional sport. Russia’s anti-gay legislation of June 2013 prompted world leaders and Olympic officials to express their concerns, even though the resurgence of traditional conservatism and homophobia for more than a decade under Putin’s presidency had passed largely unnoticed in Olympic industry circles.
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Lenskyj, H.J. (2014). Sex, Gender, Sport, Politics: Russia and the West. In: Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399762_3
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