Bayne Pettger, NHL's first openly gay hockey player agent, says the league's recent cisn to ban teams om donng Pri jerseys uld alienate the queer muny and disurage their participatn and support the game.
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- TORONTO GAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATN
- CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
- GOLD-WNG CANADIAN WOMEN'S HOCKEY TEAM SR A VICTORY FOR GAY ATHLET
TORONTO GAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATN
Collectively, the Toronto and Montreal Gay Hockey Associatns host a unique LGBTQ+ and ally-iendly ice hockey tournament, Coupe Canada Cup (prevly lled the Eastern Canada Cup), which rotat annually between the two tuned for 2023 tournament tails!
CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
Open this photo gallery:From left to right, Matthew Dalimonte, Aaron Dphee, Jeff O'Dell, Jordi Díez, and Jamie Smythe are pictured at the Mattamy Athletic Centre Toronto at a prev Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn event September.
”In the late 1980s, members of the gay muny Toronto who felt unwele or even at risk playg hockey mastream amatr leagu – all that toxic masculy and so-lled “locker room talk” – set out to build alternativ. Begng wh outdoor pickup gam advertised the gay muny newspaper Xtra, they slowly amassed a rps of like-md players who jt wanted an environment ee of 1993, they ved a team om a burgeong gay hockey league Montreal to e to Toronto for a iendly match on Thanksgivg weekend.
“There were people who weren’t wele back home wh their fai, bee they were gay, ” said Matt Hicks, the tournaments director for the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, which grew out of those early efforts.
GOLD-WNG CANADIAN WOMEN'S HOCKEY TEAM SR A VICTORY FOR GAY ATHLET
”As the gay hockey scene both ci expand, the match beme a full-blown tournament that alternated each year between Toronto and Montreal, sometim drawg teams om around the world.