Report: NHL Actually Has Had Hundreds Of Openly Gay Players For Years

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TRAILBLAZG GAY FIELD HOCKEY PLAYER DAVIS ATK JT GOT NAMED TO ATRALIA’S SENR NATNAL TEAM

Le Prokop said feels much longer than a year sce he beme the first player unr ntract to an NHL team to e out as gay. * gay field hockey players *

Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so. I'm a footballer and I'm gay.

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay! Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out.

"I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.

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NEW YORK—In the wake of NBA center Jason Colls and U.S. 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 history. * gay field hockey players *

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.

Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone. Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher.

He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U.

PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY

Davis Atk, the first Atralian pro field hockey player to publicly e out as gay, is movg up his sport.

“I thk ’s a very important role to have someone like me beg the gay muny that’s now at an ternatnal level, ’s not very mon, ” he said.

This will be the send time the two gay partners will pete together equtrian for the Netherlands pursu of Olympic gold. “Growg up the hockey world, I was around a lot of gay women, ” said Wilkson, via Team GB’s webse. Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay via a heartfelt statement to fans Monday, sayg he hoped would improve gay visibily wh the hockey muny.

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

“I hope that sharg who I am I n help other people see that gay people are wele the hockey muny, as we work to make sure that hockey is tly for everyone,” he wrote. Prokop hasn’t played an NHL game yet, but if he do, he’ll jo que a small club: There have only been two openly gay active players the four largt US sports leagu – Carl Nassib of the NFL’s Las Vegas Rairs, who me out last month, and Jason Colls, an NBA veteran who me out 2013 and retired the followg season.

Homophobic language is often ed among ach and players on youth sports teams. This n evolve to lastg homophobic attus or e gay players to hi their sexualy om their teammat, said Erik Denison, a behavral scientist and lead rearcher on the Sport Incln Project at Monash Universy Atralia, a June terview wh CNN. Sports aren’t exactly known for beg clive to gay people.

Support the partnership, they say, and are ready to help the sports world move beyond discrimatn agast gay people. In fact, the You Can Play project was found a large part bee of a gay hockey player. Isn’t the only place wh a policy agast discrimatn agast gay people.

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It would make him the first openly gay athlete to play a major Amerin team sport. Sports are still grapplg wh not jt homophobic players, but ach and owners as well. Last year, when a Ravens player spoke favor of gay marriage, a Maryland polician sent a note to the team’s owner chastisg him for allowg the player to speak up, promotg this now notor rponse om Vikgs punter Chris Kluwe.

Troy Vcent, a former player who is now the league’s executive charged wh player engagement, and Anna Isaacson, the league’s muny relatns director, have been signated to cull ias om gay advocy groups and to build relatnships wh the groups that the N. Player who’s now out of the closet is on You Can Play’s advisory board spoke recently about some of the challeng of gag LGBT acceptance the locker room, beyond the mon homophobia the ris the Uned Stat.

Hop to foc on that mentaly, one that pots out that gay players are not any different on the ice (or field) than straight on. That has been You Can Play’s philosophy all along, that gay or straight, if you n play, you n play. The Uned Stat Isn’t the Only Country Askg the Gay Marriage Qutn.

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