I once identified with Reimer as a fellow quiet underdog. But his decision to reject the LGBTQ community, which includes...
This may surprise some people, but I really only started closely following hockey in 2011.
Of course, I was getting into a Leafs team that was in pretty bad shape at the time. They were well outside of a playoff spot and didn’t have their first-round pick for the upcoming draft. The future was bleak. But, suddenly they started winning games and making a playoff push, largely due to a young goalie coming out of nowhere by the name of James Reimer.
I also made more and more friends through the sport, especially through Twitter, and started to see how diverse the fanbase was. While it was still predominately white, straight, and male, there were fans all over the place of different genders, nationalities, races, and orientations. Between being more integrated to different types of people in the hockey community and the typical self-discovery one goes through when living on their own in university, I realized that I wasn’t exactly straight.
I rooted for Reimer because, while I don’t know him personally, he always seemed like the nice, humble guy who always had to prove everyone wrong with his play. That was something I really related to as a kid, whether it was proving to people that I do know a lot about hockey without playing the game at a competitive level, or whether it was later in life as I discovered more about my sexuality that not everybody agreed with.
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