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Contents:

• ADVOT SAY HOCKEY PLAYER G OUT AS GAY MT LEAD TO MEANGFUL CHANGE GAME
• GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE
• GAY OTTAWA
• AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
• OTTAWA’S GAY HOCKEY TEAM IS RECG
• OTTAWA GAY SNAS
• 'NHL IS READY FOR GAY PLAYER,' SAYS PATRICK BURKE

ADVOT SAY HOCKEY PLAYER G OUT AS GAY MT LEAD TO MEANGFUL CHANGE GAME

Advot say a young hockey player’s cisn to e out as gay last week, jt as he is on the cp of a possible Natnal Hockey League reer, needs to be a talyst for meangful cultural change the game beyond Pri nights and rabow tape. Based Toronto, McGillis has bee a voice for LGBTQ issu hockey wh the aim of creatg safe spac the sular world of drsg rooms and MORE: Le Prokop, Alberta-born NHL prospect, out as gay Twter statement He has worked on cln wh dividual teams at high levels, but said he has been stymied brgg leaguewi chang. “You n do all the PR stuff you want, but what are you dog to make that drsg room more of a safe space stead of a space that is filled wh homophobic language and where people don’t feel fortable?

GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE

A fenceman, he was picked 73rd overall by the NHL’s Nashville Predators last year, will go to mp this fall and uld bee the first openly gay player the NHL. Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib me out last month as the first openly gay player the Natnal Football MORE: Las Vegas Rairs’ Carl Nassib out as NFL’s first openly gay active player Kristopher Wells, an advote and rearcher, says ’s cril to have LGBTQ role mols sport. ”Wells said te change starts wh a supportive group the locker room or a pta tellg a teammate that homophobic slurs won’t be tolerated.

GAY OTTAWA

Cheryl MacDonald is a sports soclogist who has rearched and wrten extensively on homophobia hockey. “Le’s story is evince that is beg safer to be an openly gay man men’s petive profsnal hockey, but sce he’s the only one right now, that shows we have work to do, ” said MacDonald wh Sat Mary’s Universy Halifax. “Until we change this ia that you n’t jt be yourself and be taken where you’re at, ’s gog to be practilly impossible to be a gay man this game.

But to Brock McGillis, the first openly gay male profsnal hockey player North Ameri, merely ncelg Leipsic is futile.

AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

“Every player I’ve been around has ed this type of language: racist, sexist or homophobic language, ” McGillis told Outsports. 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.

OTTAWA’S GAY HOCKEY TEAM IS RECG

As the first openly gay pro hockey player, McGillis has plenty of first-hand experienc wh the evils of bigotry.

OTTAWA GAY SNAS

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. "I'm not surprised, " Brock McGillis, an LGBTQIA2S+ advote and the first openly gay men's profsnal hockey player, told CTV News Channel on Thursday.

'NHL IS READY FOR GAY PLAYER,' SAYS PATRICK BURKE

The Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, otherwise known as the "TGHA, " is a non-ntact ice hockey league for gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer, and heterosexual people over neteen.

Wh an imprsive 14 teams and more than 210 playg members, the TGHA is one of the largt gay hockey leagu the world!