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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.

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.

CALGARY’S FIRST GAY HOCKEY TEAM, THE PNEERS, CHANGG CULTURE AROUND CANADA’S GAME

The rk n often be an pe for recreatnal hockey players - a place to unwd while breakg a sweat wh your buddi. But for Calgarian Mike Bell, beme a place he no longer felt wele after his new team learned he was gay. * london gay hockey team *

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.

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.

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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?

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.

WORLD’S FIRST GAY GBY CLUB TURNS 20: ‘NO-ONE HAD SEEN PLAYERS LIKE BEFORE’

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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. “We didn’t really want to start a league that was jt gay-only, ” said Robert Thompson, a -founr of the TGHA, who still plays the league.

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