Sexual Diversity in the Eyes of Sports Managers: Are We Building Inclusive Physical Activity and Sport Contexts?

Abstract

The present essay presents information relative to the LGBTQ community in Gipuzkoa with the aim to analyse sport managers’ meanings related to their work-place equity practices. Public sport managers, who work in public sport organisa-tions, take responsibility for promoting physical activity and sport (PAS) policies in their municipality. The research project Gipuzkoa EquitActive (EkitAktiboa), a neologism created by Aldaz etal. (2018), merges the concepts of equity and activity. The Department of Sports of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa consid-ers these two concepts fundamental to promote PAS policies. Gipuzkoa EquitAc-tive is based on a request made by aforementioned institution, which focuses on understanding the state of equity within sports policies on a local level. The study addressed different aspects of equity.Gipuzkoa is a small province in the north of the Spanish state and part of the Autonomous Community of Euskadi. It is made up of 88 municipalities, where diversity ranges from the cosmopolitan capital of Donostia/San Sebastian to a variety of rural municipalities in the interior of Gipuzkoa. It is within this diverse context that the Department of Sports of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa per-forms its political activities within the framework of competencies concerning the promotion of PAS