John Eppg says was hard at first to let people know he was gay, but he hop speakg out will make easier for others thkg of followg his lead
Contents:
- MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
- CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE
- CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
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13, 2016VANCOUVER, Brish Columbia — It happens all the time: Young gay people leave their small towns and head to the big cy, where they n fd love, acceptance and, Canada at least, a curlg league to ll their own. “When I walked down the street, I was the entire gay pri para, ” said Mr. Enan, a movg to Vanuver, he joed the gay Pacific Rim Curlg League, which this year marched the Vanuver gay pri para, rryg brooms and wearg shirts that proclaimed, “I swept wh your hband.
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CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE
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The untry’s olst gay curlg league, Rotators, was started Toronto 1962 and went publicly gay six years later.
CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS
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“They were the flight attendants of the railway, ” said Murray Leang, the print of Rotators and Riverdale, the natn’s largt gay curlg league, prisg 56 has 12 gay curlg leagu wh hundreds of four-member teams. ) Tta for The New York TimMark Trowell, 51, a human rourc manager, who was on the wng team at this year’s Canadian Gay Curlg Champnships, said the sport’s civily had sometim creased as the petn had bee fiercer.
Until a few years ago, the leagu relied on sponsors that provid nsirably ls lucrative priz, like flashlights, hand blenrs or ’s gay curlg leagu wele players of any sexualy or genr.
Heather Kisbee, 57, an executive assistant, joed the Pacific Rim league five years ago wh a few female iends, though she failed to tell them that most of the participants were gay until one of the women remarked excedly on the large number of good-lookg men. ”Inclivens go both ways, said Jack Holm, 53, a theater facili manager whose team of gay players has twice won mastream league tournaments. “The men get really ser, particularly if they’re playg , bee we’re openly gay, ” he said.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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Holm add, rellg a rogatory ment ma a locker room eight years many enthiasts, gay curlg tly h the mastream 2010 when Mr. T attend the first bonspiel held by the gay curlg league Halifax, Nova Stia.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Canada’s Gay Curlg Teams Take Pri on Ice.
Toronto’s gay curlg leagu provi people of all orientatns wh a unique and iendly way to beat the wter blu. Sce 1962, gay curlers have been enjoyg the sport growg numbers.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Whether you’re a novice or an tablished curler, the gay curlg leagu wele you. But as the only openly gay star male athlete major North Amerin sports, he feels a rponsibily to talk about his sexualy — and hop his example will empower others.
In major North Amerin sports — and certaly Canada, curlg is among them — Eppg stands alone as an openly gay, star male athlete. No player NHL history has ever e out; Jason Colls did jt before he played his fal NBA season 2013–14; a uple MLB players have e out after their reers end; and NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he was gay after his llege football reer was over. Coll Mart played three MLS gam last season after g out 2018, five years after fellow pro soccer player Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay man to pete a top North Amerin sports league.