AN EVENING WITH PAT GRIFFIN AN EVENING WITH PAT GRIFFINDr. Pat Griffin is a professor in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research and writing interests focus on heterosexism/homophobia in education, lesbian and gay teachers and students, and heterosexism/homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in women's sports. Dr. Griffin is the author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports (Human Kinetics, 1998) and the co-editor of Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers (Routledge, 1997). She has had short stories and first-person accounts selected for publication in Sportdykes: Stories from on and Off the Field, Tomboys: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do, A Whole Other Ball Game: Women's Literature on Women's Sport, and Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sports.
She leads classes and workshops on sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism/homophobia, and other forms of social injustice in education. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Griffin has led seminars on heterosexism/homophobia in sport at numerous colleges and universities as well as at coaches and athletic administrators' association meetings around the United States and Canada.
She has served as an expert consultant on homophobia and heterosexism in sport for the Women's Sports Foundation, Out For a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women's Sports (an educational video), the Gay, Lesbian, Education Network, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and for numerous articles in the press, on television, and in periodical publications.
Dr. Griffin played basketball at the University of Maryland and coached high school basketball and field hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also coached swimming at the University of Massachusetts. She was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey squad in 1971. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV in 1994 and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998.
She has worked with sport organizations such as the Women's Sports Foundation, National Softball Coaches Association, and National Association for Girls and Women in Sport and serves on the Women's Sports Foundation Homophobia Task Force.
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