Hello All,
    So thankful that I have finished my annotative bibliography. But on the bright side, while printing out the articles that I planned on using I found two of the most helpful tools. I found an amazing book called Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sports. I suggest that if anyone is truly interested in my research to read this book. A few articles that I have read about my research mention this book,so I read an overview of this book and it is a must have for my research. I am actually working on locating it in a library. Also, I found another amazing website, with a similar interest in what I plan on doing for my research project. It gave me copious amount more articles and books to look at.
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/resources/bibliographies/homophobia.html
Thank you to the University of Minnesota for such a fantastic website. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Bests!

Updates

Proposals were due and I still have a bit to fix before it gets approved. I continue with my every day research and am still thinking about who I want to interview. Student athletes are the most important to interview, but I also want to interview students who are always around the student athletes as well. I also want to talk to coaches.

Hialeah- The Second Cuba

Jane Doe Interview of Hialeah

                When I asked Jane Doe about the actually meaning of Hialeah which was given the Seminoles, she did know the actually meaning. The Seminole interpretation of Hialeah was the High Prairie. As I have heard and read that some parts of Hialeah are not safe, I was quite interested. Asking Jane she tells me that it depends where you live. The city is kind of divided into two parts; the east and west side. The west side is where all the crime is and the east being the more peaceful side. If you ever need to find a cop Jane says that they are always driving around or sitting in Dunkin Donuts. So they are somewhat visible at all times.  When driving through Hialeah I have noticed that most people have gates with extremely pointy tops. It seems that they are for safety measures to keep unwanted people out. Since Hialeah holds the rank of Florida’s fifth largest city, transit, schools, and hospitals come into question. Is there enough schools, transportation, and hospitals to accommodate all the people that live there? She believes that there is because only the old people use the buses and each house has at least one car. In my opinion for all the people that live there, I truly believe that there should be more hospitals available because even in cities that are less populated hospitals are always an issue. Looking at polls it seems that people live together more then they live alone and Jane said it had to do with the Cuban heritage, which Hialeah was like the second Cuba.  My most interesting finding was the Hialeah was home to a Santeria Church. To me that is quite interesting because I never have known about a city having a Santeria church and people being okay with it in their neighborhood. Jane also said that it is a necessity to speak Spanish in Hialeah because you will find very few people that will understand exactly what you are saying. In conducting this interview I have found out numerous new facts about Hialeah and I greatly appreciate Jane for taking time out and sitting down for this interview.

Joan Arc Interview

Spark notes and websites that give you a summary and take away the tremendous detail that you would receive when actually reading the book was a curious interest to me. When asked Joan says that it depends how you use it, it does not necessarily take away from reading the actual book. Reading the book and using spark notes to refresh your memory seems to be okay. In my opinion when reading the spark notes compared to reading the book, many details are left out and the reader may miss out on something amazing. She does speak three different languages which was extremely interesting; English everywhere, Spanish to her mother, and Portuguese to her father.  She enjoys writing and reading both equally and loves to write short stories. Reading she says gives views into people’s lives whether they are real or make believe characters. She enjoys reading romance books because she gets wrapped up into different worlds. I feel like in this section we are quite alike because when reading romance you get drawn into the book and sometimes it is impossible to just put the book down.  She does not have a favorite part about High school English because she did not read that much and it seems to me that she loves to read and she was quite disappointed. Joan did not really teach reading or writing to other students, until she reached the college level as she is now a tutor in the Writing Center. However, she has no remembrance when she started reading, but that is okay because most people do not. She was very enthusiastic about answering all my questions and was very open. I greatly appreciate the time that she gave me to ask these questions and they will be helpful to my project in the future.

Research

As I continue the research of my project I am getting extremely excited about my project. All the information that I have found seems to be very helpful. I also have casually talked to athletes about my project and numerous of them said they would be happy to help. Below are some very interesting links, that I would find helpful to my project. The first one from EBSCO host was super interesting to me. They now have books and articles on how to help your child with the issue of homosexuality especially if they have teammates.

EBSCOhost:

Epperson, D., & Selleck, G. (2000). How to help your children respond to issues of homosexuality in the sports world. In Epperson, D.C. (ed.), Beyond the bleachers: the art of parenting today's athletes, Sugar Land, Tex., Alliance Publications, c2000, p.163-166 United States: Retrieved from SPORTDiscus database.

Pronger, B. (2000). Homosexuality and sport: who's winning?. In McKay, J. (ed.), Masculinities, gender relations, and sport, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications, c2000, p.222-244 United States: Retrieved from SPORTDiscus database.

ProQuest:

Roper, E., & Halloran, E.. (2007). Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbians Among Heterosexual Male and Female Student-Athletes. Sex Roles, 57(11-12), 919-928.  Retrieved September 10, 2010, from Research Library. (Document ID: 1394705821).

WorldCat:

Mosbacher, D., Griffin, P., & Woman Vision Productions. (1994). Out for a change: Addressing homophobia in women's sports. San Francisco, CA: Woman Vision Productions.

GALE:

LOPEZ, K. J. (Oct 14, 2002). Leagues of Their Own: The delicate question of lesbians and softball.  National Review, 54, 19. p.NA. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from General Reference Center Gold via Gale:
http://find.galegroup.com/gtx/start.do?prodId=GRGM&userGroupName=stu_main

The beginning

My thought process of ideas for my research project

 -Homosexuality in women sports
          - biological, environmental.....
- Why is there more homosexuals in softball than other sports
           - women sports specifically (college)
- Why- different personality traits
- Can a coach be an influence in homosexuality
- Why does it seem that heterosexual girls change paths our of no where?
                 - Why does it happen?
                 - Is it environmental, pressure to be accepted.....
-Do stereotypes draw people away?
- Homosexuality: from an athlete's perspective vs. a non athlete perspective.
***NO REAL NAMES WILL BE USED IN THIS PROJECT
- Why are athletes more open to homosexuality then non-athletes?
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Interview Ideas
- Softball players
- Psychology Proffesors
- Athletes
- Non- Athletes
-Coaches perspective