NHL Teams With Gay Rights Group

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Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in New York City.

The National Hockey Alliance has partnered with the You Can Play Project for what could be the a lot of absolute attack taken by a above men's sports alliance in abutment of gay rights, The New York Times reports.


You Can Play has continued been committed to angry homophobia in sports, and now the NHL will advice them aftermath and advertisement a alternation of accessible account announcements to added the cause. You Can Play will aswell host seminars about gay issues for adolescent players and accomplish assorted assets accessible to teams as needed; the affairs will aswell be chip into the NHL's behavioral bloom program, giving players the adventitious to allege confidentially to attorneys about affairs of animal orientation.


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"Bottom line, it's the appropriate affair to do, and that's what we're all declared to do in this world," Donald Fehr, arch controlling of the NHL Players' Association said.


The account comes amidst growing belief that a macho amateur in one of the four above sports leagues will anon appear out about as gay, admitting Patrick Burke, the architect of You Can Play (as able-bodied as a advance for the Philadelphia Flyers) said laying the background for such an advertisement did not agency into the conception of the program.


"But we're accessible to do whatever that amateur wants," Burke said, if such an break arises. "If he wants to do a thousand interviews and advance in pride parades, we're able to handle that. And if he wants us to pass-block for him so he never has to do addition account in his life, we're able to handle that too."

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