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.
Contents:
- PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
- OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
- NHL PLAYER GETS SEVERE BACKLASH FOR HIS RPONSE TO TEAM’S GAY PRI ACTIVI
PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
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. "I want to be the first openly gay player to play the NHL, " he said. "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.
OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
" ❤️ <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. " 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.
20-year-old Prokop, the first openly gay player wh a ntract unr the NHL, penned a thoughtful msage about players the league who have opposed wearg pri jerseys or g rabow stick tape durg their teams' annual pri events. Prokop me out as gay 2021, one year after beg selected by the Nashville team the 2020 NHL Draft.
NHL PLAYER GETS SEVERE BACKLASH FOR HIS RPONSE TO TEAM’S GAY PRI ACTIVI
"Today I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay. TEAM TRANS MEMBERS OPENING DOORSSet to take on Madison Gay Hockey Associatn weekend Friendship Seri. PROKOP GETS CALL OF SUPPORT FROM ELTON JOHNHears om Rock and Roll Hall of Famer day after g out as gay.
AHL ANNOUNCER COMES OUT AS GAY, HOPES TO HELP OTHERSSays he 'felt a real sense of duty' to make announcement. 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. But that msage is unrcut when players don’t buy , and teams pulate to their homophobia. I’m so angered and trated that they nsistently refe to change, so they endorse a homophobic player and his ach fendg him — DeBksMethod? (@BksMethod) January 18, 2023.