The Hoton Oilers Had Two (Mostly) Openly Gay Players In 1993

Contents:

• EDMONTON OILERS CELEBRATE PRI NIGHT BY HONORG OPENLY GAY PLAYER LE PROKOP
• GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP GETS TRAD TO HIS HOMETOWN
• REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS
• PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
• THE HOTON OILERS HAD TWO (MOSTLY) OPENLY GAY PLAYERS IN 1993
• AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

EDMONTON OILERS CELEBRATE PRI NIGHT BY HONORG OPENLY GAY PLAYER LE PROKOP

But the Oilers’ celebratn had a twist — they were able to honor an active player who is gay, Le Prokop. Prokop, 19, plays for the Edmonton Oil Kgs, the Oilers’ Wtern Hockey League anchise, and he me out as gay July.

If Prokop mak onto an NHL roster, he will be the first openly gay player league history. After g out, Prokop did not keep quiet about beg gay like some other pro athlet.

Gay NHL prospect Le Prokop was trad Wednday om the Nashville Predators anizatn to a mor league team operated by the same group that owns the Edmonton Oilers.

GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP GETS TRAD TO HIS HOMETOWN

Prokop, 19, beme the first out gay player signed to an NHL ntract when he publicly me out July.

REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS

One of the most tellg quot surroundg Prokop’s g out me om Predators fenseman Mark Borowiecki, who said he didn’t thk there uld’ve been an out gay player the NHL when he was growg up. Prokop said he didn’t hear any gay slurs om teammat when he attend the Predators’ 2021 Developmental Camp. Soccer midfielr Robbie Rogers g out as homosexual, reports revealed Friday that the Natnal Hockey League has fact had hundreds of openly gay athlet throughout s Texas Law Requir Schools To Display Image Of God Hung Like A Horse In Every ClassroomOffEnglishSourc nfirmed that gay players have actually been credibly mon the NHL for s, and the league is only now beg creded wh layg the groundwork for the growg acceptance of homosexualy profsnal sports.

PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY

“It’s obvly a watershed moment when a player om the NBA announc he’s gay, but most people fet about Montreal Canadiens wger Steve Shutt, who me out back 1972, ” said hockey historian Hank Crerand, notg that Shutt was the first of many gay NHL players to reveal their homosexualy. “Even though gay athlet still rry a stigma today, ’s nothg pared to the ’70s. ”“The issue of gay athlet has now reached a major turng pot, and ’s only a matter of time before someone the NFL or MLB out, ” Crerand ntued.

THE HOTON OILERS HAD TWO (MOSTLY) OPENLY GAY PLAYERS IN 1993

”Sce s origal ceptn 1917 through to the “Origal 6” era of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, the NHL has reportedly had a long history of gay players and was far ahead of s time batg prejudice and tolerance toward homosexualy wh locker rooms and stadiums. “Thgs really started to take a turn for the better when Mike Ezne beme the first openly gay pta of an Olympic hockey team to w a gold medal, leadg the U. ”“That kiss really changed a lot of attus wh the hockey muny, ” Crerand Probert, who played 16 seasons for the Detro Red Wgs and Chigo Blackhawks, reportedly had a huge impact on the league as hockey’s “Homo Enforcer, ” timidatg the petn and pummelg opponents wh vic punch.

Crerand told reporters that Probert was the “most feared queer” the NHL and transformed the perceptn that a homosexual hockey player uldn’t be a gay goon.

Crerand strsed, however, that no athlete was more fluential to the gay rights movement than Wayne Gretzky, wily regard as the greatt gay player NHL history. “Number 99 pletely changed the landspe for gay athlet the NHL, pecially mercially, and no one had a greater impact on young gay hockey players around the world.

AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

And that is, of urse, why the gay muny nicknamed him ‘The Great One.