Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 1993: “The Last Closet,” the CBC Radio’s hourlong special on gays in sports was groundbreaking, exploring a subject that was little talked about in the media. They took the title from something I said in the interview about sports being [...]
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Moment #72: Sean Avery garners attention for his pro-gay marriage stance
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 2011: Sean Avery was not the first pro athlete to come out for gay marriage (NFL players Scott Fujita and Brendan Ayanbadejo beat him to it), but his announcement this spring made bigger news. Avery made a video to support [...]
Sean Avery wants NHL to embrace gay equality
Sean Avery is quickly becoming one of the fiercest advocates for gay equality in sports. After successfully lobbying the New York State Senate to vote positively on same-sex marriage, he is now turning his attention to the NHL. In a fantastic interview with the New York Post, Avery says it’s time for the League to [...]
Andrew Brunette fires Todd Reynolds, says it’s not because of anti-gay Tweet
Various Web sites reported yesterday that Todd Reynolds, the hockey agent who recently Tweeted that marriage is only between a man and a woman, has lost a client because of said Tweet. The Minnesota Wild’s Andrew Brunette allegedly fired Reynolds specifically because of his homophobic Tweet and anti-marriage-equality position. However, a report today by the Pioneer [...]
Vancouver fans riot after Canucks lose
Canadian fans can act as idiotic as fans anywhere and Canucks fan are especially bad losers. From the New York Times: Rioting hockey fans overturned vehicles and set them ablaze, broke store and hotel windows and set several small fires in downtown areas here moments after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley [...]
Sean Avery in Albany lobbying senators for gay marriage support
As the marriage battle heats up in New York, hockey badboy Sean Avery visited state senators in Albany to push them for a vote in favor of marriage equality. He was teamed up with actress Cynthia Nixon for the tour of the state capital. Check out the video after the jump. Hat tip to Towleroad. [...]
Stanley Cup, game 7: It doesn’t get any better
There are few moments in sports with the excitement of a game 7 in hockey. With hard hits and goals at such a premium, every pass, every check takes on such importance that tension in the arena is hard to match anywhere else. When you add in suspensions, illegal season-ending hits, biting, and six games [...]
NHL suspends Aaron Rome for the rest of Stanley Cup Finals for hit on Nathan Horton
The NHL needed to do something about the increasing violence in hockey, and they started with suspending Vancouver’s thug Aaron Rome (right) for the rest of the Stanley Cup Finals for his vicious hit on Boston’s Nathan Horton. The video is after the jump, but if you haven’t seen it, Rome illegally and violently sailed [...]
NBA: Heat vs. Mavericks; NHL: Canucks vs. Bruins: Do you care who wins?
The NBA Finals (Dallas vs. Miami) tips off Tuesday, followed the next day by Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals (Vancouver vs. Boston). Both series look intriguing with some fresh faces in the Finals. For Miami and Dallas, this is their second trip each to the Finals (they played in 2006), while Boston (1990) [...]
Canadian sportscaster Damian Goddard fired after supporting anti-gay marriage tweets
Damian Goddard, an anchor with Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto, decided to weigh into the gay marriage debate prompted by Sean Avery’s support for same-sex couples and his tweet got him fired. The tweet: “I completely and whole-heartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage,” Goddard wrote in a [...]
Sports agents issue messages of support for gays in response to Uptown Sports
Hockey professionals are speaking out quickly and clearly against anti-gay comments made by Uptown Sports management. Agent Scott Norton, who helped bring the Stanley Cup to last year’s gay pride in Chicago, told Outsports: I think they are very small minded comments. The world has changed, and people need to change also. Everyone in the [...]
Uptown sports management tweets against Sean Avery and gay marriage
Uptown Sports is a Canada-based sports management company representing various professional hockey players. Their motto is: “Commitment. Dedication. Integrity. The Way We do Business.” On Twitter today they decided to lash out against New York Ranger Sean Avery and equality for gay people: Share on Facebook
Video: Sean Avery supports gay marriage
New York Ranger enforcer Sean Avery has cut a new video in support of marriage equality for New York’s gay couples. I treat everyone the way I expect to be treated, and that applies to marriage. … Committed couples should be able to marry the person they love. Join me in supporting marriage equality. We’ve [...]
Successful discussion of gay issues at American Hockey Coaches Association convention
GForce hockey and Patrick Burke held a panel discussion at the American Hockey Coaches Association convention last weekend. The discussion was attended by coaches at all levels of hockey. A full press release on the convention and the group’s push to further discussions of gay athletes in hockey is after the jump. Share on [...]
Worse to lose in 4…or lose like the Blackhawks?
After the Blackhawks-Canucks game, I started wondering what’s a worse way to get knocked out of the playoffs: 1) Lose four straight games or…2) lose three, then come back from the dead to win three, then lose Game 7…in overtime? You gotta feel badly for the defending Stanley Cup champs. Chicago came back from the brink [...]