Let’s talk about a harrowing truth, writes BuckinBoston. After the Rangers' retreat on Pride Night, life just got a whole lot more complicated if you happen to be a young, closeted hockey player with dreams of being out and proud in the NHL.
To bang down gavels of shame, then, is simplistic and naive. Blame pies are for talk shows. Here in the real world, the act of wrapping up a hockey stick in rainbow-colored tape becomes a geopolitical issue. So much for getting out of the house for the night and unwinding at a Rangers game.Nashville Predators
If you’re a closeted player anywhere in the minors, or juniors, or college, or high school, you need to know that events in the world are forcing you deeper into the closet, and possibly deeper into your own world of despair and self-doubt. Sorry if that sounds dark; the closet can be that way. It will be 13 years ago next week that Brendan Burke, the 19-year-old son of longtime NHL executive Brian Burke, was killed in a car crash. Brendan, a student manager of the Miami University hockey team, had come out to his family, classmates and members of the team over Christmas. To this day I smile when I recall the story about how members of the Burke family referred to Brendan’s coming-out announcement as “Big Gay Christmas.
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