NHL Prospect Le Prokop Mak History As League's First Gay Player : NPR

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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.

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LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY

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Le Prokop, a prospect for the Nashville Predators, me out as gay on Monday.

PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY

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Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop has e out as gay, beg the first active player unr ntract to an NHL team to do so. High-level female hockey players, such as Olympic gold medalist Meghan Duggan, have prevly e out as gay, acrdg to the league. Prokop's announcement ls than a month after Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

The play-by-play broadster for Uti, the New Jersey Devils' Amerin Hockey League affiliate, publicly me out as gay October 2021, fluenced by Prokop's cisn. "I want to be the first openly gay player to play the NHL, " he said.

Hockey is so much more aggrsive—and, to Bty, dangero—than ice skatg, and he don’t know whether he “fs” as a gay man on the team. Do he give up on the first unndnal love of his life, or do he e out as gay?

GAY MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE G OUT DROV, AND CHANGG THE SPORT’S CULTURE

A slew of players me out, and wh each announcement, showed gay people belong on the ice.

Gay former hockey player Brock McGillis spoke to Outsports multiple tim this year about the prevalence of homophobia locker rooms. Durg the quiet of the sprgtime sports shutdowns, two well-known NHL players, Stanley Cup champn Dt Penner and wger Brendan Leipsic, were ught postg horribly homophobic and misogynistic msag on social media.

When I go speak, I humanize beg a gay man and playg hockey at high levels.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Thomas Aquas College Upstate New York, Fkle often heard other players e anti-gay slurs. Fkle told the goalie he was gay, and that language was unacceptable to e on the ice — or anywhere, ankly.

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