The longtime Blackhawks forward says he’s learned a lot sce sayg a gay slur an NHL playoff game.
Contents:
- PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
- OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
- NHL PLAYER ANDREW SHAW TAILS HIS EVOLUTN ON LGBTQ ISSU SCE GAY SLUR CINT
- GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE
- NHL PLAYER'S BOYTT OF TEAM'S PRI NIGHT TRIBUTE 'DISRPECTFUL' TO GAY MUNY: AGENT
- BRAD MARCHAND SAYS GAY TEAMMATE WOULD BE ACCEPTED
- LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
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. * nhl player gay comments *
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. 20-year-old Prokop, the first openly gay player wh a ntract unr the NHL, penned a thoughtful msage about players the league who have opposed wearg pri jerseys or g rabow stick tape durg their teams' annual pri events.
Prokop me out as gay 2021, one year after beg selected by the Nashville team the 2020 NHL Draft.
"Today I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay.
OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
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Former Chigo Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw said one of the most vile anti-gay slurs on natnal TV the middle of an NHL playoff game. Today, Shaw says he’s mted to eraditg the sual homophobia that pervas locker rooms.
NHL PLAYER ANDREW SHAW TAILS HIS EVOLUTN ON LGBTQ ISSU SCE GAY SLUR CINT
The first openly gay profsnal hockey player says Leipsic will be nothg more than a fall guy if the NHL don’t beg to more serly te players on the power of their speech. * nhl player gay comments *
Lazes wrote an tertg feature story on the evolvg culture of the NHL, which overt homophobia is ls wispread than ed to be, players and ach say. A veteran Eastern Conference player told Lazes gay slurs are still heard on the ice, albe ls equently. The AHL recently spend a player eight gam for homophobic language.
But to Brock McGillis, the first openly gay male profsnal hockey player North Ameri, merely ncelg Leipsic is futile.
“Every player I’ve been around has ed this type of language: racist, sexist or homophobic language, ” McGillis told Outsports.
GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE
Last month, McGillis spoke wh Outsports about the importance of llg out hate-speech hockey, explag why he chose to highlight two-time Stanley Cup champn Dt Penner’s vile nspiracy-filled homophobic Twter timele.
NHL PLAYER'S BOYTT OF TEAM'S PRI NIGHT TRIBUTE 'DISRPECTFUL' TO GAY MUNY: AGENT
As the first openly gay pro hockey player, McGillis has plenty of first-hand experienc wh the evils of bigotry.
Former NHL biser Brandon Pst recently went on a Twter tira about “reverse racism” and star Bs forward David Pastrnak was ught g “you’re gay” as an sult on his Twch stream, though he did tch himself and apologize. When I go speak, I humanize beg a gay man and playg hockey at high levels.
Provorov’s polarizg cisn is remiscent of Tampa Bay Rays pchers who were labeled "bigots" for clg to wear gay pri patch durg an LGBTQ celebratn June. He poted out that the NHL has never had a sgle openly gay player history.
BRAD MARCHAND SAYS GAY TEAMMATE WOULD BE ACCEPTED
Canadian sports pund Sid Seixeiro lled on the NHL to fe the Flyers "$1 ln, " NHL Network senr reporter EJ Hrak suggted the Rsia-born Flyer player should go back to his homeland and jo the fight agast Ukrae if participatg Pri events is "that problematic for him, " ESPN senr NHL wrer Greg Wyshynski lled out Provorov for prevly participatg the Flyers' ary appreciatn event and a plethora of other high-profile punds have nounced him as, who is gay, feels the pivot om simply tryg to make the game more clive to force-feedg activism on athlet has a negative impact. Casey Flor, a gay Republin activist, believ attempts to embrace the LGBTQ muny are often "exclnary" bee voic of relig mori aren’t nsired.
LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
"I'm really disappoted, as a gay man wh that, bee we all have to get along. "What the left miss is that this is the greatt untry the world and this is the greatt untry the world to be gay . We n marry, we n adopt, and we nnot be fired for beg gay, and I don't know what more they want, " Flor ntued.
"'Wearg Pri lours shows rpect': You Can Play rponds to Provorov boytt of Flyers' tributeBayne Pettger, a Toronto-based NHLPA certified player agent who me out as gay 2020, said he was disappoted by Provorov's cisn to e his platform for "sentially a prott" that sends a msage to hockey fans and his teammat who did take part the warmup.