NHL players refg to participate Pri nights around the league shows hockey still isn't safe for a number of LGBTQ people, says one of the first male profsnal players to publicly e out as gay.
Contents:
- PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
- NHL PLAYER'S BOYTT OF TEAM'S PRI NIGHT TRIBUTE 'DISRPECTFUL' TO GAY MUNY: AGENT
- CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
- OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
- LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
- NEW YORK CY GAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATN CELEBRATG PRI MONTH
- HOW BY IS AMSTERDAM DURG THE AUGT GAY PRI EVENT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
- CATEGORY:AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
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 hockey player gay pride *
"Don't say gay was a huge thg, " he said.
"Jocks were never [openly] gay, you know. "It's about havg teams and athlet who unrstand misogyny, unrstand homophobia, who unrstand discrimatn and unrstand eply.
" ❤️ <a href="></a>—@FlaPanthersLast week, on the same day the San Jose Sharks' Manoba-born goaltenr Jam Reimer cled to wear a jersey durg the team's Pri Night warm up, the team posted a strg of tweets about LGBTQ rights and of the tweets said that 73 per cent of rponnts to a survey about homophobia sport "believe youth team sport is not safe for gay people.
NHL PLAYER'S BOYTT OF TEAM'S PRI NIGHT TRIBUTE 'DISRPECTFUL' TO GAY MUNY: AGENT
Bayne Pettger, NHL's first openly gay hockey player agent, says the league's recent cisn to ban teams om donng Pri jerseys uld alienate the queer muny and disurage their participatn and support the game. * nhl hockey player gay pride *
" 73% of rponnts believe youth team sport is not safe for gay people. Also, 81% of gay men and 74% of lbians are pletely or partially " the closet” while playg youth sports.
The donatn was ma honour of Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop who me out 2021 and is the only openly gay player unr NHL ntract.
Calgary Pneers was the first gay hockey team Calgary, formg 2015. 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.
CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
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"I want to be the first openly gay player to play the NHL, " he said. On Wednday, Chigo cid agast havg players wear Pri-themed warmup jerseys for their upg Pri night, cg an anti-gay law Staal brothers and San Jose's Jam Reimer — who are Canadian — and Philalphia's Ivan Provorov, who is Rsian, all poted to their relig beliefs for refg to take part warmups.
It’s igned a bate over clivy and personal eedom 's vasn of Ukrae and the anti-gay law signed by Print Vladimir Put December have bed to pose some problems for the NHL and s 32 North Amerin profsnal sports league has as many Rsian players as the NHL. "Relign and rpect are not nflict wh each other, and we are certaly disappoted when relign is ed as a reason to not support our muny, " the anizatn ' Jam Reimer cl to wear Pri-themed jerseyNashville Predators prospect Le Prokop, who 2021 ma history as the first player signed to an NHL ntract to e out as gay, lled the Pri night cints a "step back" for hockey. 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.
OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
New York Cy Gay Hockey Associatn players aren't on the ice and won't be marchg a massive annual Pri para this month due to rk closur and event ncelatns related to the ronavis. * nhl hockey player gay pride *
He poted out that the NHL has never had a sgle openly gay player history. 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. "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.
LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
"'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. "I found selfish and ankly disrpectful towards the gay muny.
NEW YORK CY GAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATN CELEBRATG PRI MONTH
"He says the NHL has ma great stris when to makg the sport more clive — the league's Hockey is for Everyone iative enurag teams to celebrate the diversy that exists their rpective markets — but Provorov's actns signal somethg prospect Le Prokop announc he's gay"I get asked all the time, 'When is an NHL player gog to e out?
The power of visibily shows young LGBTQ athlet ’s possible to thrive as their te selv, spe the prevalence of sual homophobia and other anti-gay attus some rners of the sports world. Gat wr about how hearg “faggot” on the ice was a mon occurrence growg up, and that “llg someone gay was as much a part of youth hockey as parents yellg about a missed penalty.
HOW BY IS AMSTERDAM DURG THE AUGT GAY PRI EVENT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
But that msage is unrcut when players don’t buy , and teams pulate to their homophobia. Dpe his profsnal succs, however, the 36-year-old says he feared he uldn't be accepted as a gay man the sport.
CATEGORY:AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
"There was always this fear that I uldn't live my te life — to be accepted as a gay man — and also be a succsful young executive the game. The first openly gay NHL agent, Bayne Pettger, dropped by the CBC Victoria stud to share his NHL has always had this stereotype of beg an old boys club, not beg able to grow. Wnipeg LGBTQ advot disappoted followg NHL's cisn to ban themed jerseysYou are the first openly gay NHL agent, and I know you work wh many players, but you're also iends wh many players this league.
Jt keepg foced on the posive, bee we n go down that rabb hole of five players of 700 … that's not a player's boytt of team's Pri night tribute 'disrpectful' to gay muny: agentCan you take back three years ago to what that was like for you on a personal level, given the role you play a huge league like the NHL, to e out? I had a massive fear that I uldn't be succsful hockey and be gay, bee I didn't see anyone before me dog that.
Unwele spotlight falls on NHL team Pri night eventsMy biggt fear was that I uldn't work hockey and be succsful and be gay, but fact 's been que the oppose.