Opinion: Thanks, Ivan Provorov, for showing us why we need to keep fighting. Hockey has gotten better on LGBTQ issues, but there are also those who still hate something they don’t understand. The fight for good things doesn’t stop. So keep fighting.
I, personally, think we should thank Ivan Provorov. You might disapprove of the Philadelphia Flyers defenceman today after he refused to wear a rainbow-coloured Pride Night jersey before Philly’s game Tuesday, and you might deplore that the Flyers played him nearly 23 minutes anyway. That’s fine.
Every player but Provorov wore the jersey in warm-ups, and it showed what can happen when professional athletes take an interest, humanize an issue, and use their platform to do something about it. All that was cool and should be appreciated. That’s what Provorov did. Of course he didn’t want to wear it — there is a huge homophobia problem in Russia, which has been aided and abetted by the state. Hiding bigotry in religion is literally one of the oldest tricks in the book, and it would be a surprise if Provorov lives his life in strict accordance with Russian Orthodox doctrine.
And that itself is a good reminder of how the NHL has recently rolled over to right-wing bullies, and will therefore do so again. They stuck with this year’s All-Star Game in Florida despite the state’s, and it got worse. Last week the NHL advertised a job fair in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that was focused on increasing diversity in one of the least diverse sports on earth, outside Toronto.
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