Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
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GAY PRI CALENDAR
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Broadway star Michael Jam Stt, who is gay, sang a goosebump-cg rendn of the natnal anthem. Provorov’s statement is evince of latent homophobia the NHL and the hockey muny as a whole. In 2016, the NHL spend and fed Chigo Blackhawks player Andrew Shaw for g a homophobic slur.
In 2022, a fan reported a homophobic attack, which was later vtigated as a hate crime, after an NHL game Denver. Two weeks ago, the East Coast Hockey League released Louie Rowe after he ma homophobic ments on Twter.
The You Can Play Project, an anizatn created to fight homophobia profsnal sports also released a statement followg the game, which has sce been leted. The msage is clear: Gay fans are wele to spend their hard-earned money at the arena like everybody else.
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Players Atralia’s top pro basketball league, the NBL, didn’t wear Pri jerseys durg the league’s first-ever Pri Round, eher, spe one of their own, forward Isaac Humphri, publicly g out as gay earlier this season. Ten years ago, Jason Colls beme the first active NBA player to publicly e out as gay, and enjoyed wispread support om the league’s biggt stars.
Much like the Flyers, who also issued an empty statement about the Provorov cint, the Rangers say they support cln, while simultaneoly affirmg unnamed players’ homophobia. But that don’t change the fact that providg ver for anti-gay players on Pri Night turns the event to a sham.
Siarly, Steve Buckley, a lumnist for The Athletic, has lled on the NHL to do more to ensure that openly gay or closeted young hockey players know there’s room for them the league.
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”The Rangers' cisn predictably drew nsirable cricism om hockey fans fact the New York Rangers pletely abandoned their plans to wear pre-game Pri jerseys shows how entrenched homophobia and transphobia is hockey, and the NHL’s plicy to excln— Ian Kennedy (@IanKennedyCK) January 28, 2023You aren’t showg you “support everyone’s dividual right to rpectfully exprs their beliefs” by removg the jerseys (which you told the muny you’d wear) as an optn altogether. Adam Prote (@Protetype) January 28, 2023You Can Play, a social activism mpaign dited to the eraditn of homophobia sports and an official partner of the NHL, released a statement on Sunday mandg some clary on the Rangers' cisn. As an openly gay man I choose to believe this room is much, much smaller than that lively, oversized dance hall wh the rabow tape and the Pri shirts, but that’s not why we’re here.
While other pregame ftivi ntributed to a celebratn of Pri Night — NYC Pri -chair André Thomas took part the ceremonial puck drop and openly gay Broadway star Michael Jam Stt performed the natnal anthem — the players’ Pri shirts and rabow tape remaed Rangers haven’t explaed exactly what happened, other than to release a statement that n be fold neatly to two parts:— “Our anizatn rpects the LGBTQ+ muny and we are proud to brg attentn to important lol muny anizatns as part of another great Pri Night. If you’re openly gay Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop, currently playg wh the Wtern Hockey League’s Seattle Thunrbirds, you need to know that thgs have taken a step or two backward sce you were drafted you’re a closeted player anywhere the mors, or junrs, or llege, or high school, you need to know that events the world are forcg you eper to the closet, and possibly eper to your own world of spair and self-doubt. To this day I se when I rell the story about how members of the Burke fay referred to Brendan’s g-out announcement as “Big Gay Christmas.