Gay hockey players are changg the sport’s atavistic culture - Outsports

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• LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
• PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY
• NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
• GAY MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE G OUT DROV, AND CHANGG THE SPORT’S CULTURE
• NASHVILLE PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP LIVG 'THENTIC LIFE' HELPS NHL REER
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: HOT HOCKEY PLAYERSGAY HOCKEY PLAYERS LIST: COLLEGE AND PRO ATHLET
• REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS
• PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP BE FIRST PLAYER ON ACTIVE NHL NTRACT TO E OUT AS GAY
• I'M GAY. LEAVE IVAN PROVOROV ALONE | OPN
• THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.
• OPENLY GAY NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP CALLS OUT LACK OF 'INCLN' AFTER PLAYERS BOYTT PRI NIGHT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FOR GAY HOCKEY PLAYER LE PROKOP, THE NHL EXPERIENCE BEGS
• AN N.H.L. PROSPECT IS THE FIRST SUCH PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE’S GAY
• GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE
• NHL STAR LE PROKOP BE LEAGUE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO IMPROVE CHANC OF ‘FULFILLG MY DREAMS’
• LE PROKOP MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY WHL PLAYER
• PREDATORS’ PROSPECT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST GAY PLAYER UNR CONTRACT
• AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
• PREDATORS PROSPECT PROKOP OUT AS GAY, MAK NHL HISTORY
• NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
• HOCKEY PROSPECT LE PROKOP: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NHL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
• ‘IT’S NOT ENOUGH’: OPENLY GAY EX-HOCKEY PLAYER LLS ON THE SPORT TO EVOLVE
• ADVOT SAY HOCKEY PLAYER G OUT AS GAY MT LEAD TO MEANGFUL CHANGE GAME
• GAY HOCKEY PLAYER ‘DISAPPOTED’ OTHER PLAYERS’ LACK OF SUPPORT
• ‘I’M GAY’: COLLEGE HOCKEY PLAYER ME OUT TO TWO TEAMS WH A SIMPLE STATEMENT

LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY

Prokop hasn’t played an NHL game yet, but if he do, he’ll jo que a small club: There have only been two openly gay active players the four largt US sports leagu – Carl Nassib of the NFL’s Las Vegas Rairs, who me out last month, and Jason Colls, an NBA veteran who me out 2013 and retired the followg season. This n evolve to lastg homophobic attus or e gay players to hi their sexualy om their teammat, said Erik Denison, a behavral scientist and lead rearcher on the Sport Incln Project at Monash Universy Atralia, a June terview wh CNN. 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.

PROKOP REFLECTS ON YEAR SCE G OUT AS GAY

Apparently, he planned to e out when he was playg profsnally but the anti-gay jok he heard the locker room and worri about his job secury as a hockey player prompted him not ’s what he says about his g out: “It would be ial if I didn’t have to talk about this. Cotsonika as “the clost person to the NHL ever to e out publicly and say that he is gay” g out 2009 created que a stir the hockey world as his father, Brian Burke, is the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and of the US Olympic hockey team. Brendan, on the left, wh kid brother Patrick Burke who now heads the NHL Department of Player Safety and -founr of the You Can Play Project which seeks to elimate “homophobic culture found some rners of hockey” McGillis, who once played for the Ontar Hockey League, me out as gay a November 2016 article on Yahoo Sports.

Ntendo Unveils New Controller Digned To Be Chucked Across A RoomOffEnglishSourc 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.

NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE

“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. ”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.

”“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.

GAY MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE G OUT DROV, AND CHANGG THE SPORT’S CULTURE

Louis, Rick Nash, Ryan Miller, Patrik Elias, Stephen Gnta, Clarke MacArthur, Patrick Dwyer, Mike Rupp, Carey Price, Dt Brown, Zbynek Michalek, Brad Richards, Derek Dorsett, Brian Boyle, David Krejci, Shea Weber, Derick Brassard, Sergei Gonchar, Bran Holtby, Brandon Dubsky, Stephane Robidas, Col Greeng, Jam Reimer, Kev Poul, Brandon Pst, Travis Hamonic, Mart Brour, Joakim Anrsson, Vcent Levalier, Josh Green, Daniel Aledsson, Joe Thornton, Arron Asham, Alexanr Steen, Michael Del Zotto, Patrice Bergeron, Matt Duchene, Teddy Purcell, Michael Ryr, Tomas Fleischmann, Lars Eller, Daniel Wnik, Jyri Niemi, Mikhail Grigorenko, Evanr Kane, David Back, Jiri Tlty, Sam Gagner, David Dharnais, Cody Franson, Steve Ott, Dt Byfuglien, Casey Cizikas, Daniel Sed, Brian Campbell, Ilya Kovalch, Chris Neil, Patrick Sharp, Jaromir Jagr, Hal Gill, Mark Grdano, Marc-Andre Flry, Ray Whney, Mike Cammalleri, Lee Stempniak, Jam van Riemsdyk, Mart Hanzal, David Clarkson, Vny Prospal, Taylor Hall, Ryan Getzlaf, Andrew Ladd, Alexanr Sem, Max Pacretty, Brenn Dillon, Jonathan Toews, Jordan Eberle, Marian Hossa, Frans Nielsen, Alex Galcheny, Bobby Ryan, Manny Malhotra, Mike Fisher, Bryan Ltle, Nail Yakupov, Patrick Marle, Jonathan Huber, Tyler Ennis, Craig Anrson, Saku Koivu, Shane Doan, Ryan Whe, Blake Wheeler, Evgeni Nabokov, Mark Fraser, Jeff Carter, Nicklas Backstrom, Michael Grabner, Brendan Gallagher, Tomas Plekanec, John Tavar, Taylor Pyatt, Alex Burrows, Rene Bourque, Jason Chimera, Jofey Lupul, Corey Perry, Brad Stuart, Jt Williams, Matt Cullen, Marian Gaborik, Patrik Berglund, Brian Elltt, Josh Hardg, Daniel Cleary, Roberto Luongo, Nazem Kadri, Zach Parise, Eric Staal, Jordan Staal, Marc Staal, Jared Staal, Steven Stamkos, and Ryan Kler all g out as gay recent years. 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.

”“But whout a doubt, none of this would have been possible whout the unbelievable altism and open-mdns of the NHL fan base, ” add Melrose, “It’s far easier for players to be tly fortable their own sk knowg so many fans are gay too.

(Marissa Baecker/Getty Imag)Prokop told ESPN's Ey Kaplan he cid to e out publicly after stgglg last season bee he thought would ease his md to play ele-level the hockey season end early April bee of COVID-19, he returned to Edmonton and began tellg people he was gay, begng wh his olr sister, Alanna, his mother, Nile. "There has never been an openly gay player the NHL and Prokop uld be the first when he mak an NHL start the g McGillis beme the first openly gay male pro hockey player 2016, g out 10 years after his playg reer end.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP SAYS HE IS GAY, HOP LIVG 'THENTIC LIFE' HELPS NHL REER

Those around hockey have e out as gay recent years, such as NHL player agent Bayne Pettger last 's announcement on the heels of Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly as gay when he announced om Yahoo Sports:Falns kicker asks for cleats to be returned om stolen JeepFan who threw ball at Alex Verdugo receiv lifetime MLB banCo Gff out of the Olympics due to posive COVID ttWetzel: Olympics already at risk as U.

The 12U hockey ach yellg at me om the bench durg a tournament I was officiatg was referrg to a small pri sticker I put on my helmet after seeg one on the helmet of my favore official, Dre Barone, an out gay AHL (at the time ECHL) official. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.

The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone.

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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. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

This year will be pecially profound for the NFL and NHL, wh Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Rairs anticipated to take the gridiron this fall, and bee the first gay NFL player to play a regular season game. ’”I had the opportuny to speak to Prokop between the Predators’ practice ssns on Wednday, and I asked him if he enuntered homophobic slurs durg his reer, and if that might have been one of the reasons for him to e out? "Acrdg to ESPN, the Edmonton, Alberta native (who signed a three-year entry-level ntract wh the Nashville Predators back December and who prevly played for the Calgary Hmen) is the first active player signed unr an NHL ntract to e out as gay, a cisn he ma back April.

REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS

“The rise of social media, pecially Instagram, has given athlet a fom where they n live their liv openly and intify directly wh their followers, ” Outsports wrote last said he hoped his claratn would show others that gay players are wele hockey. Last month, McGillis spoke wh Outsports about the importance of llg out hate-speech hockey, explag why he chose to highlight two-time Stanley Cup champn Dt Penner’s vile nspiracy-filled homophobic Twter timele.

Former NHL biser Brandon Pst recently went on a Twter tira about “reverse racism” and star Bs forward David Pastrnak was ught g “you’re gay” as an sult on his Twch stream, though he did tch himself and apologize.

If and when that happens, believe me, that person will have the full support of the missner’s office” (om “Gary Bettman says NHL is ready for s first openly gay player, ” The Chigo Tribune, 29/06/2016) Commissner Gary Bettman (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Today, hockey mt reflect the changg valu of s fan base.

PREDATORS PROSPECT LE PROKOP BE FIRST PLAYER ON ACTIVE NHL NTRACT TO E OUT AS GAY

That means that, over the years, there have probably been several hundred gay NHLers, all of whom prumably kept their sexual orientatn hidn om the still sist that, notwhstandg the odds, there are simply no gay men playg the NHL.

I'M GAY. LEAVE IVAN PROVOROV ALONE | OPN

Mark Tewksbury, an Olympic gold medalist swimmg at the 1992 Olympic gam, a former chef missn of Canada’s 2012 Summer Olympic team and a proment gay activist sports for many years, sffs at that ia. One of whom was Glenn Burke, who me out while he was playg for the Oakland Athletics back 1977, and who said, “They n’t ever say now that a gay man n’t play the majors, bee I’m a gay man and I ma .

Speakg of the absence of openly gay players the NHL, Tampa Bay Lightng goaltenr Anrs Nilsson, a proment supporter of the LGBT+ muny, said, “When people say there are three to four gay players on each [NHL] team, I say no, absolutely not. ” He further explaed that if he had been gay, playg as a teen, he would have qu bee of the homophobic slurs on the ice, the drsg rooms and the stands – all over the hockey Nilsson as an Ottawa Senator (Js Starr/The Hockey Wrers)So, what’s up wh the NHL?

THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.

He explaed, “There’s this ia that to be a hockey player, you have to be macho, hyper-mascule, a ‘bro’ tough guy…And the language and attus and actns wh the sport almost give the ia that if you’re gay, you’re ls than the thgs.

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

You’re weak, you’re soft, you’re effemate” (om “Culture of Hockey: Q&A wh Brock McGillis, the first openly gay pro hockey player, ” The Hockey News, 04/12/2019) slurs are mon hockey om midget hoe leagu to major junr and llege. (om “Hockey and Homophobia: We are All Complic, ” The Globe and Mail, 21/04/2016)McGillis poted to Mark Crawford’s one-month spensn 2019 as an example of the anti-gay culture that still permeat the league.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Sce 2016, they’ve been an official partner of You Can Play, -found by Patrick Burke, a sut for the Philalphia Flyers and son of renowned hockey executive, broadster and gay rights activist Brian Burke, now vice print of hockey operatns for the Ptsburgh Pengus.

; he died a r accint You Can Play OrganizatnThe NHL also tablished the “Hockey is for Everyone” iative that the sport – and the league’s global fluence – to provi a posive environment for players, fai and fans of every race, lour, relign, natnal orig, genr, age, sexual orientatn, soc-enomic stat and for those wh players are also proment the effort to bat homophobia hockey. It’s a Different Culture That Stops Gay Players From Comg OutWhile would be hard to argue that the NHL has rid self entirely of homophobia, there n be no doubt that the blatant variety is no longer tolerated the league. In 2019, a 17-year-old Yanic Duplsis was drafted by the Dmmondville Voltigrs to bee the first openly gay player to be drafted to the Quebec Major Junr Hockey League (QMJHL) – a key steppg stone to the NHL.

Not only is the right thg to do, but the game will suffer if those bridg aren’t Nilsson summed up bt by sayg, “What happens is that we will lose gay players, who might otherwise have been the next Sidney Crosby or Connor McDavid or Wayne Gretzky.

FOR GAY HOCKEY PLAYER LE PROKOP, THE NHL EXPERIENCE BEGS

And some fai wh strong feelgs about thgs might feel that, regardls if their son is straight or gay, he shouldn’t play hockey bee they don’t want him that harsh culture where ach and players ll each other all sorts of thgs. '"I had the opportuny to speak to Prokop between the Predators' practice ssns on Wednday, and I asked him if he enuntered homophobic slurs durg his reer, and if that might have been one of the reasons for him to e out? The six-foot-five fenceman was drafted the third round by the Nashville Predators the 2020 NHL Entry Draft and signed a pro ntract wh the anchise | Nashville Predators draft pick Le Prokop announc he is gay:NHL prospect Le Prokop out as gayLe Prokop, 19, a draft pick for the Nashville Predators, has bee the first player unr an NHL ntract to e out as Predators praised Prokop's urage on Monday and said they will "support him unequivolly the days, weeks, and years to e as he ntu to velop as a prospect.

AN N.H.L. PROSPECT IS THE FIRST SUCH PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE’S GAY

"Prokop's announcement was -ordated wh an article published on The Athletic's webse about his difficult a 'laggard' on homophobia sports, studi showWhile both gay male and female athlet have wrtled wh difficult cisns over the years, men's profsnal sports leagu have generally been void of active, open gay players. STRIDING TOWARDS EQUALITYBrock McGillis is a former OHL and profsnal hockey player, and is the first openly gay men’s profsnal hockey player and a leadg activist the LGBTQ+ ntuo work to shift the nversatn around sports and the LGBTQ+ muny earned him regnn as one of The Hockey News 100 most fluential people hockey for 2022.

GAY HOCKEY PLAYER: NHL HYPOCRIL TO NMN BRENDAN LEIPSIC WHOUT CHANGG CULTURE

It’s my belief that if you need to humanize the issu wh the hockey culture, and by that I mean you need people who have lived the experienc wh men’s hockey culture to humanize racism, sexism, homophobia, abe and mental illns. Yeah, and then the league-wi polls e out where ’s like everyone says they wouldn’t md havg a gay teammate, and that’s great, but ’s not enough to make somebody actually e out while beg an active NHL n say you don’t md havg a gay teammate, but when people are still sayg (var slurs), or g homonegative and sexist language the locker room, and they’ve been g sce they were a kid, no one is gog to e out. Advot say a young hockey player’s cisn to e out as gay last week, jt as he is on the cp of a possible Natnal Hockey League reer, needs to be a talyst for meangful cultural change the game beyond Pri nights and rabow tape.

Based Toronto, McGillis has bee a voice for LGBTQ issu hockey wh the aim of creatg safe spac the sular world of drsg rooms and MORE: Le Prokop, Alberta-born NHL prospect, out as gay Twter statement He has worked on cln wh dividual teams at high levels, but said he has been stymied brgg leaguewi chang. “You n do all the PR stuff you want, but what are you dog to make that drsg room more of a safe space stead of a space that is filled wh homophobic language and where people don’t feel fortable? Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib me out last month as the first openly gay player the Natnal Football MORE: Las Vegas Rairs’ Carl Nassib out as NFL’s first openly gay active player Kristopher Wells, an advote and rearcher, says ’s cril to have LGBTQ role mols sport.

“Le’s story is evince that is beg safer to be an openly gay man men’s petive profsnal hockey, but sce he’s the only one right now, that shows we have work to do, ” said MacDonald wh Sat Mary’s Universy Halifax. He played the 2020-21 season wh the Calgary Hmen of the Wtern Hockey League, where he was an alternate released a statement on his Twter page sayg he was "proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay.

NHL STAR LE PROKOP BE LEAGUE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER TO IMPROVE CHANC OF ‘FULFILLG MY DREAMS’

“While there’s still progrs to be ma before hockey is for everyone, I’m optimistic about the change we n achieve and am mted to beg a part of , ” he me out as gay 2021, and though the then-19-year-old was spired by NFL player Carl Nassib’s public announcement that he too was gay, he said that wasn’t the reason for his year, NHL Pri Night events have met wh some ntroversy among players, pecially those om Rsia, where LGBTQ+ rights are fenseman Ivan Provorov ma headl when he cid not to participate warm-ups when the team celebrated s Pri Night January 17. As sure as our Third Rock From The Sun is a spng, round orb, like a blue 10-p bowlg ball, gay men wh wi gaps their teeth and ill manners have skated, blocked pucks and bare-knuckled one another the pla's premier puck mune. Whereas players om each of the other major men's pro sports enterpris North Ameri have stepped forward to jo the gay/bisexual roll ll—the majory dog so post-reer—not a soul among the thoands of men listed on NHL rosters more than 100 years has outed himself as part of the LGBT(etc.

LE PROKOP MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY WHL PLAYER

Not even Vegas sports books uld provi a morng le on such an improbable circumstance, bee the notn that there's never been a gay/bisexual NHL player is as believable as the Tooth Fairy leavg a dollar bill unr the Easter Bunny's pillow. No surprise, therefore, to learn that Kyle Beach was the target of homophobic tntg and ridicule by members of the Chigo Blackhawks at trag mp 2010, snt months after rmg club officials that he stood before them as a victim of sexual asslt, the culpr beg then-vio ach Brad Aldrich.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

PREDATORS’ PROSPECT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST GAY PLAYER UNR CONTRACT

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Lil Nas X, a gay Black artist, was booted om the untry charts when his song “Old Town Road” went viral; he was only allowed back when he rerd a remix of the song wh untry artist Billy Ray Cys.

AN INCLIVE NHL AWAS S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

PREDATORS PROSPECT PROKOP OUT AS GAY, MAK NHL HISTORY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. After exprsg admiratn for Kg’s learship women’s sports and gay rights, Arnone’s rellectn of her Zoom meetgs and her support of the women’s tour engagg wh Sdi Arabia left him feelg “today looks like she’s jt an average n of the l palist.

NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

HOCKEY PROSPECT LE PROKOP: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NHL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

‘IT’S NOT ENOUGH’: OPENLY GAY EX-HOCKEY PLAYER LLS ON THE SPORT TO EVOLVE

ADVOT SAY HOCKEY PLAYER G OUT AS GAY MT LEAD TO MEANGFUL CHANGE GAME

GAY HOCKEY PLAYER ‘DISAPPOTED’ OTHER PLAYERS’ LACK OF SUPPORT

‘I’M GAY’: COLLEGE HOCKEY PLAYER ME OUT TO TWO TEAMS WH A SIMPLE STATEMENT