NHL Player Gets Severe Backlash for His Rponse to Team's Gay Pri Activi

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Bayne Pettger, NHL's first openly gay hockey player agent, says the league's recent cisn to ban teams om donng Pri jerseys uld alienate the queer muny and disurage their participatn and support the game.

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PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY

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. * nhl player gay pride *

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.

OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT

"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.

" ❤️ <a href="></a>&mdash;@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.

NHL PLAYER GETS SEVERE BACKLASH FOR HIS RPONSE TO TEAM’S GAY PRI ACTIVI

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. Provorov’s polarizg cisn is remiscent of Tampa Bay Rays pchers who were labeled "bigots" for clg to wear gay pri patch durg an LGBTQ celebratn June.

NHL PLAYER'S BOYTT OF TEAM'S PRI NIGHT TRIBUTE 'DISRPECTFUL' TO GAY MUNY: AGENT

He poted out that the NHL has never had a sgle openly gay player history. Canadian sports pund Sid Seixeiro lled on the NHL to fe the Flyers "$1 ln, " NHL Network senr reporter EJ Hrak suggted the Rsia-born Flyer player should go back to his homeland and jo the fight agast Ukrae if participatg Pri events is "that problematic for him, " ESPN senr NHL wrer Greg Wyshynski lled out Provorov for prevly participatg the Flyers' ary appreciatn event and a plethora of other high-profile punds have nounced him as, who is gay, feels the pivot om simply tryg to make the game more clive to force-feedg activism on athlet has a negative impact. Casey Flor, a gay Republin activist, believ attempts to embrace the LGBTQ muny are often "exclnary" bee voic of relig mori aren’t nsired.

"I'm really disappoted, as a gay man wh that, bee we all have to get along.

"What the left miss is that this is the greatt untry the world and this is the greatt untry the world to be gay . We n marry, we n adopt, and we nnot be fired for beg gay, and I don't know what more they want, " Flor ntued. 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.

CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT

Prokop me out as gay 2021, one year after beg selected by the Nashville team the 2020 NHL Draft. "Today I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay. The NHL has never had an openly gay active player.

(Tim Nwachwu/Getty Imag)The NHL and s players first partnered wh You Can Play April 2013 on activi fightg homophobia sports, along wh removg stereotyp related to genr, ethnicy and You Can Play mpaign was born 2012 followg a 2010 r accint that took the life of 21-year-old Brendan Burke, the youngt son of Brian Burke, currently print of hockey operatns wh the Ptsburgh Pengus.

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