@musette96 replied to your post “I just got home and I’m so fucking angry. We were out tonight with a...”
Is this guy a coach? I feel so bad for those young kids to be around someone like that? Hockey development isn't just about developing hockey skills it's also about personal development and some kids won't get it because of a guy like that
I don’t think he was an actual coach, more like an all-around guy, working with the equipment and so on. But I also don’t think that it’s just about this one guy, it’s the whole culture around it. Where they like to pretend that there are no gays around anyway and at least none of the great players are gay, so better not to think about it. He was really baffled when I asked him if he wanted the next superstar quit playing hockey just because he was gay. In his mind it just wasn’t even a possibility, something that could happen.
On a lighter note I went reading again some articles about LGBT people in hockey in Finland and read again one article where they interviewed the captains of the Liiga teams. Most of them said that they knew gay or bi players, that even though they weren’t publicly out, it wasn’t a secret within the team and it didn’t really matter. And that the young players thought about these things so differently already that they believed the culture was already changing, it just wasn’t such a big deal anymore and someone would or could come out any day now. (AFAIK no one still hasn’t.) (It’s here, in Finnish.)
Some of the captains of course also said that there are no gay hockey players, or not at least on their teams :P