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- SIDNEY CROSBY AGAST ANTI-GAY LAW
- REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS
- SIDNEY CROSBY AMONG NHL PLAYERS EMBRACG GAY HOCKEY PLAYERS, AGAST NEW RSIAN LAWS
- SIDNEY CROSBY ON GAY RIGHTS: 'I THK EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO PLAY'
SIDNEY CROSBY AGAST ANTI-GAY LAW
The NHL's top player didn't shy away Sunday when asked about Rsia's anti-gay law beg adopted for the Olympics Febary. * sid crosby gay *
13 years at The Canadian Prs natnal news agencyCALGARY, Alberta -- The NHL's top player didn't shy away Sunday when asked about Rsia's anti-gay law beg adopted for the Olympics Canada superstar Sidney Crosby isn't on board wh the Rsian ernment's stance, unrlg his support of gay athlet and their right to play. Soccer midfielr Robbie Rogers g out as homosexual, reports revealed Friday that the Natnal Hockey League has fact had hundreds of openly gay athlet throughout s history. Feral Rerve Calls For More PovertyOffEnglishSourc nfirmed that gay players have actually been credibly mon the NHL for s, and the league is only now beg creded wh layg the groundwork for the growg acceptance of homosexualy profsnal sports.
“It’s obvly a watershed moment when a player om the NBA announc he’s gay, but most people fet about Montreal Canadiens wger Steve Shutt, who me out back 1972, ” said hockey historian Hank Crerand, notg that Shutt was the first of many gay NHL players to reveal their homosexualy.
“Even though gay athlet still rry a stigma today, ’s nothg pared to the ’70s. ”“The issue of gay athlet has now reached a major turng pot, and ’s only a matter of time before someone the NFL or MLB out, ” Crerand ntued. ”Sce s origal ceptn 1917 through to the “Origal 6” era of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, the NHL has reportedly had a long history of gay players and was far ahead of s time batg prejudice and tolerance toward homosexualy wh locker rooms and stadiums.
REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS
NEW YORK—In the wake of NBA center Jason Colls and U.S. soccer midfielr Robbie Rogers g out as homosexual, reports revealed Friday that the Natnal Hockey League has fact had hundreds of openly gay athlet throughout s history. * sid crosby gay *
“Thgs really started to take a turn for the better when Mike Ezne beme the first openly gay pta of an Olympic hockey team to w a gold medal, leadg the U.
”“That kiss really changed a lot of attus wh the hockey muny, ” Crerand Probert, who played 16 seasons for the Detro Red Wgs and Chigo Blackhawks, reportedly had a huge impact on the league as hockey’s “Homo Enforcer, ” timidatg the petn and pummelg opponents wh vic punch. Crerand told reporters that Probert was the “most feared queer” the NHL and transformed the perceptn that a homosexual hockey player uldn’t be a gay goon. Crerand strsed, however, that no athlete was more fluential to the gay rights movement than Wayne Gretzky, wily regard as the greatt gay player NHL history.
“Number 99 pletely changed the landspe for gay athlet the NHL, pecially mercially, and no one had a greater impact on young gay hockey players around the world.
SIDNEY CROSBY AMONG NHL PLAYERS EMBRACG GAY HOCKEY PLAYERS, AGAST NEW RSIAN LAWS
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And that is, of urse, why the gay muny nicknamed him ‘The Great One.
SIDNEY CROSBY ON GAY RIGHTS: 'I THK EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO PLAY'
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Acrdg to experts, the league’s progrsive stance toward homosexualy also paved the way for the 2013 Philalphia Flyers, the only profsnal sports roster history to be prised entirely of gay players.
“It’s nice to see the rt of the sports world begng to tch up to the NHL when to gay tolerance, ” said ESPN hockey analyst Barry Melrose, himself openly gay sce the early 1990s. “A lot of cred also has to go to Gary Bettman, still the only openly homosexual missner of a North Amerin sports league.