Women and sports is a recurrent topic in the sport studies literature, and consequently in this journal’s review columns. Usually it’s about the classic women’s question, that is, the all too common discrimination against women in sport that has many facets, and most of them displaying the ugly mug of the patriarchy. But there are other problems, which are treated less often, and one is about female homosexuality in sport, heterosexism and homophobia. Nowadays this discussion comes up more often, also outside the gay sports community, but the issue remains extremely sensitive and for some of the sport’s stakeholders downright troublesome. There is a limited body of literature on this subject matter, which is why this editor secured a review copy of a 13 year old book from Human Kinetics, Strong Women, Deep Closet: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport by the American educator and currently Professor Emerita Pat Griffin, School of Education, University of Massachusetts @ Amherst. Griffin’s own sporting career includes several years as an active college athlete in basketball and field hockey, and then as a coach in these sports as well as in swimming. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998, the year her book was published. Julia Rönnbäck has read Griffin’s book, and appreciates the personal tone and the rich empirical data, which more than compensates for the lack of theoretical depth.