Hockey has a loyal fan base wh New York’s gay muny, but several fans scribe the atmosphere durg Rangers gam as homophobic.
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WHEN TRADN AND TNTS COLLI: GAY HOCKEY FANS CRICIZE GARN
Related: A mighty morphg marriage proposal for the gay Power Rangers. A clip om the episo shows the other characters fdg out that their fellow Ranger is gay when she walks off holdg her girliend’s hand.
Consirg how well attend most Pri Nights are, mt take astonishg levels of homophobia to make a baseball executive say no to the ncept of higher profs. As an openly gay man I choose to believe this room is much, much smaller than that lively, oversized dance hall wh the rabow tape and the Pri shirts, but that’s not why we’re here.
GAY RANGERS
While other pregame ftivi ntributed to a celebratn of Pri Night — NYC Pri -chair André Thomas took part the ceremonial puck drop and openly gay Broadway star Michael Jam Stt performed the natnal anthem — the players’ Pri shirts and rabow tape remaed Rangers haven’t explaed exactly what happened, other than to release a statement that n be fold neatly to two parts:— “Our anizatn rpects the LGBTQ+ muny and we are proud to brg attentn to important lol muny anizatns as part of another great Pri Night. If you’re openly gay Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop, currently playg wh the Wtern Hockey League’s Seattle Thunrbirds, you need to know that thgs have taken a step or two backward sce you were drafted you’re a closeted player anywhere the mors, or junrs, or llege, or high school, you need to know that events the world are forcg you eper to the closet, and possibly eper to your own world of spair and self-doubt. To this day I se when I rell the story about how members of the Burke fay referred to Brendan’s g-out announcement as “Big Gay Christmas.
”Everybody loved this kid, this kid who was gog to make a his ath, the entire Burke fay has worked to erase homophobia sports, om Papa Burke participatg Pri paras to the fay-n “You Can Play” don’t tell me Brendan Burke should have kept his sexual orientatn to don’t tell me the Burke fay shouldn’t be so out ont about their sire to make sports a safe place for LGBTQ+ yet here we are, 13 years later, and we n’t get a bunch of hockey players to skate around for 10 or 15 mut while wearg Pri are always bellowg that we should leave polics out of sports. ” The chant is one example of what several gay hockey fans scribe as a toxic atmosphere durg Rangers gam and that Madison Square Garn, which owns the team, is not dog nearly enough to addrs their Jenngs, a Rangers fan who is gay, said he stopped attendg home gam for about a month this season bee he felt so unfortable wh the homophobic ephets that are shouted to the players. Ray Stank, 50, of Baysi, Queens, said he nceled season tickets he had had for 25 years part bee of the antigay environment.