Pl, 2019 Pan Am Gam gold medallist Tomas Gonzalez out as gay and a look back at Team France on the uneven bars at Athens 2004
Contents:
- GAY MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE G OUT DROV, AND CHANGG THE SPORT’S CULTURE
- CALGARY’S FIRST GAY HOCKEY TEAM, THE PNEERS, CHANGG CULTURE AROUND CANADA’S GAME
- SO FIELD HOCKEY IS VERY GAY; HOCKEY TEAM GB OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL WNERS 'TO MARRY'SO FIELD HOCKEY IS VERY GAY; HOCKEY TEAM GB OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL WNERS 'TO MARRY'
- WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
GAY MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE G OUT DROV, AND CHANGG THE SPORT’S CULTURE
Many gay male hockey players and officials me out on Outsports this year. Together, they’re makg the sport’s culture more clive. * london gay hockey team *
Another team who has ma the Olympic Park venue ’s home is one of the youngt clubs the UK – the London London Royals is the UK’s first and largt Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) hockey club, although as a spokperson pots out:“We are pletely open to those of all sexual orientatns. The boys went to Miami last year and we’re all gog to Paris – ’s the big Gay Gam this year.
We’ve got Pk Hockey – a world-wi feratn of Gay and Lbian hockey players.
I never ed to hang out wh a lot of gay men bee ’s not somethg that happens naturally.
CALGARY’S FIRST GAY HOCKEY TEAM, THE PNEERS, CHANGG CULTURE AROUND CANADA’S GAME
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Joanie om Hackney Women’s Football Club and The Feratn of Gay Gam. Ann om Gay Gooners. A slew of players me out, and wh each announcement, showed gay people belong on the ice.
Gay former hockey player Brock McGillis spoke to Outsports multiple tim this year about the prevalence of homophobia locker rooms. Durg the quiet of the sprgtime sports shutdowns, two well-known NHL players, Stanley Cup champn Dt Penner and wger Brendan Leipsic, were ught postg horribly homophobic and misogynistic msag on social media.
SO FIELD HOCKEY IS VERY GAY; HOCKEY TEAM GB OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL WNERS 'TO MARRY'SO FIELD HOCKEY IS VERY GAY; HOCKEY TEAM GB OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL WNERS 'TO MARRY'
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When I go speak, I humanize beg a gay man and playg hockey at high levels. Thomas Aquas College Upstate New York, Fkle often heard other players e anti-gay slurs. Fkle told the goalie he was gay, and that language was unacceptable to e on the ice — or anywhere, ankly.
There are more openly gay figur all around the world of men’s hockey. This year alone, longtime NCAA Divisn 1 ref Brian Hicks announced he was gay; player and referee Gordie Mchard me out; pro announcer Jonathan Kliment penned his g-out story. After a lifetime of hearg gay sults the rk — opponents were always lled “cksuckers” or “fuckg fags” — Wton cid to e out to his teammat a heartfelt speech.
Over the last , an creasg number of gay female Olympic hockey players have e out. He was playg an ele youth league, but years of homophobia and self-hatred drove him away om the sport. And if someone asks if you are gay, jt look at them olly and say, ‘Yeah, so what?
WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’
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Open this photo gallery:From left to right, Matthew Dalimonte, Aaron Dphee, Jeff O'Dell, Jordi Díez, and Jamie Smythe are pictured at the Mattamy Athletic Centre Toronto at a prev Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn event September. ”In the late 1980s, members of the gay muny Toronto who felt unwele or even at risk playg hockey mastream amatr leagu – all that toxic masculy and so-lled “locker room talk” – set out to build alternativ.
Begng wh outdoor pickup gam advertised the gay muny newspaper Xtra, they slowly amassed a rps of like-md players who jt wanted an environment ee of 1993, they ved a team om a burgeong gay hockey league Montreal to e to Toronto for a iendly match on Thanksgivg weekend. “There were people who weren’t wele back home wh their fai, bee they were gay, ” said Matt Hicks, the tournaments director for the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, which grew out of those early efforts. ”As the gay hockey scene both ci expand, the match beme a full-blown tournament that alternated each year between Toronto and Montreal, sometim drawg teams om around the world.