Sports leagues and teams often use Pride nights to raise the visibility and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people — as well as sell them tickets — and the NHL has been a leader.
They can include special jerseys designed by LGBTQ+ artists, performances, information tables, even drag performances. And they're largely a hit.
Pro sports has been here before. In June, five pitchers with the Tampa Bay Rays cited their Christian faith in refusing to wear Pride jerseys, and a U.S. women's national soccer player skipped an overseas trip in 2017 when the team wore Pride jerseys and also didn't play in an NWSL game last year for the same reason.
The changes come as Republican lawmakers across the U.S. pursue several hundred proposals this year to push back on LGBTQ+, and particularly transgender, rights. At the same time, international sports-governing bodies are instituting policies that effectively ban the vast majority of trans women from track and field and swimming events.
In the NHL, many Pride nights are more about selling tickets, Taylor said. But because the league has been such a leader among men's sports in how to do Pride nights well, he said, it's “conspicuous" to see players and teams "roll back the ways in which they have historically shown support for and given visibility to the LGBTQ community.”
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