The Maple Leafs cisn to have openly gay Olympian Mehan Duggan talk about cln was a powerful moment.
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NHL: LEAFS' RIELLY DIDN'T UTTER ANTI-GAY SLUR
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The Maple Leafs players also heard about the power of clivens om a gay Olympic hockey gold medalist. The most-impactful part of eher Pri celebratn was the cisn by the Leafs to have Meghan Duggan — openly gay, a former U. The only holdout was Rsian-born goalie Ilya Samsonov, who ced Rsia’s punive anti-gay laws.
As a bon to make the Pri Night even more gay Toronto, “a live drag show set to Canadian mic in Shania Twa’s song ‘Man! Last year, Outsports profiled an array of gay male hockey players who are g out drov and changg the sport’s sular culture. One of them, llege hockey player Brock Wton, wrote about nstantly hearg gay slurs at the rk.
Toronto Maple Leafs fenceman Man Rielly didn’t e an anti-gay slur agast an official durg Monday night’s game agast the Tampa Bay Lightng, the NHL announced today. * leafs gay pride *
The moral of the story is out gay male athlet ually have ntral or posive experienc wh their teammat, as our Out Sports study shows.
"You always thk of there's a lot of bullyg sports and people are shamed if they e out as gay, but this shows how everyone n be accepted when you have a proment figure, pecially someone we're close wh, showg that we accept you and show that you are weled here and you're safe. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports The Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Blue Jackets last night for Pri nights are credibly important bee they specifilly make the pot that a margalized group of people who has been historilly exclud om the game (hockey’s past is EXTREMELY homophobic as anyone who was a drsg room before the year 2000 n tell you) are wele to be volved the game of shouldn’t be ntroversial anyway, but as you probably know, the age of ter anonymy, hateful people love to have their say. ” Rsia’s anti-gay laws were amend December; per The New York Tim, the laws make “illegal to spread ‘propaganda’ about ‘nontradnal sexual relatns’ all media, cludg social, advertisg and movi.
In addn, all NHL Pri merchandise will be available for purchase at Real Sports Apparel, wh 20 percent of the sal gog to the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, a not-for-prof anizatn that facilat a non-ntact league for gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer and heterosexual people over 19. “LGBT muny members Allentown are big fans of Kurtis Gabriel bee he is so clear that hockey is for everyone and that he will bash homophobia whenever he se , ” Shanker says.