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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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.
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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.