The World's Most Unexpected Straight Advote For Gay Rights?
Contents:
- RANGERS NEWS & RUMORS: FOX WS NORRIS, EICHEL, NYC GAY HOCKEY & MORE
- SEAN AVERY, FORMER NEW YORK RANGER, ON BEG GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE
RANGERS NEWS & RUMORS: FOX WS NORRIS, EICHEL, NYC GAY HOCKEY & MORE
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.
SEAN AVERY, FORMER NEW YORK RANGER, ON BEG GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE
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. ”Everybody loved this kid, this kid who was gog to make a his ath, the entire Burke fay has worked to erase homophobia sports, om Papa Burke participatg Pri paras to the fay-n “You Can Play” don’t tell me Brendan Burke should have kept his sexual orientatn to don’t tell me the Burke fay shouldn’t be so out ont about their sire to make sports a safe place for LGBTQ+ yet here we are, 13 years later, and we n’t get a bunch of hockey players to skate around for 10 or 15 mut while wearg Pri are always bellowg that we should leave polics out of sports. The msage is clear: Gay fans are wele to spend their hard-earned money at the arena like everybody else.
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.