#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

The NWHL is partnering with You Can Play!!

(although Rylan saying that "the hockey community can proudly say we are the most inclusive professional sport in the world" ...... I hope that's a platitude that she hopes, by saying it publicly, will help make it more true, not something she's un-self-aware enough to actually believe :/)

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Exciting news! I have to admit to being really skeptical about the NHL YCP videos, but it feels different with the NWHL, where there are out players who will probably be speaking in some of the videos. I know the CWHL has an existing partnership with them (though I have to admit some difficulty in following them as an organization), so I assume it'll follow much of the same format.

(And haha, yeah, that is an incredibly laughable thing to say and I sure hope she doesn't mean it.)

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Considering Ashley Johnson's proposal video is public on youtube, I hope they can find a few players to speak out!

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Nice to see a few LGBT players be appointed as ambassadors rather than it being all straight people for once. Hope this doesn't turn out like the CWHL's partnership, where iirc they had trouble getting LGBT players and even allies on record to make a video.

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have more info regarding the CWHL's partnership? Was there ever word for why people didn't want to make videos?

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

The article is down now, but: http://speakslow13.tumblr.com/post/39654316774/

It was more or less implied by several people that they had a hard time not only getting LGBT players to go on record, but also straight allies, which is all pretty much corroborated by the fact that the CWHL never put out a league-wide YCP video. Montreal ended up having to make their own.

I like to be cautiously optimistic in thinking it might be a difference scene now with lots of league players out on some level and some of the major national teamers toeing that line, but who knows for now.

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

SA, posted mid-train of thought. The CWHL YCP partnership was also before anyone 'major' had come out, iirc. Since then both Labonte and Hefford have, to varying levels of fanfare/publicity, which I do really think helps things along. We'll see, but like I said, I'm cautiously optimistic that some of the 'big name' LGBT players in the NWHL will speak up for YCP video, regardless of whether they actually come out in doing so.

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Thanks for the info! It's interesting/strange that things have changed so fast - 2013 wasn't so long ago, but having some "major" people out definitely changes things to a certain extent. I'm not sure that's enough to combat the pressure to be "feminine" enough in women's pro sports, especially wrt sexuality, but I guess we'll see how this project develops.

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think having a handful of people be out creates a big sea change; it happened with women's soccer - it was huge news when Megan Rapinoe came out in 2012, and now it's like 'grass is green, sky is blue, you're gay, moving on' in a good way. I'd like to think the same thing can happen for hockey, but it'll take a big name player coming out mid-career. So far we've only had league players being out, or players at the ends of their careers (Hefford, Labonte, Cahow).