The Danvers High School hockey team allegedly enforced "Gay Tudays," where players were orred to get naked and touch each other.
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THE 'GAY' SI OF HAZG
Homophobic and racist hazg ruals such as “Gay Tudays” and “Hard R Fridays” were part of life on a Massachetts high school hockey team, acrdg to one former player who says he was victimized. “School officials and police have yet to rm the muny about the alleged vlent racist and homophobic locker room behavr or tails of the vilent group text msag, ” wr the Globe’s Bob Hohler and Brandon Chase. On “Gay Tudays, ” he says players would strip naked wh the lights off and touch each other — and then gus who groped them.
More than half of the 2019-20 team allegedly participated a vile group chat as well, where anti-Semic, anti-gay and racist ephets were digally thrown around wh impuny. Jt two weeks ago, former Chigo Blackhawks fenseman Kyle Beach said teammat pelted him wh anti-gay tnts after they learned of his sexual asslt allegatn agast the club’s former vio ach 2010. Has such homoerotic ary ruals.
For one, the ary is an tensely homoerotic place. Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latr and changg areas; the pent-up horns and need for sexual exprsn all make the ary a place that awakens same-sex sire. Th, homoerotic iatn ruals allow servicemembers to flict the ab they’ve endured and also tt new members’ willgns to subm to tradn and group-thk whout succumbg to emotn or “stctive” homosexual sir.