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"We're not shoving a Pride Rainbow in your face."
Oh no...
"We're celebrating the LGBTQ+ community who has normally been excluded from the sport we love."
Oh thank God.
It's actually really smart because the ones we know that will bitch and moan about the sentiment don't have the reading comprehension to understand the sentiment.
Yep, pretty simple let’s not exclude or alienate anybody based on who they are as a person…that way we can be constructive and united with our outrage and direct it towards Gary Bettman the way it should be.
That was sick man, I’m a jersey collector so whenever I’m in a state with a hockey team I go to home game and buy one of their jerseys for my collection now I gotta go hit an Avs game stat.
The Colorado Avalanche have a history of celebrating LGBTQ+ fans and fighting against homophobia, you may remember [this tweet going viral a couple years back:](https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1579981560446562304)
> This isn't about you. This is for our friends who historically don't feel safe ro welcomed in a hockey environment. And many who still don't.
> We weren't excluding anyone, why are you?
I love this team!
As a Panther fan I fucking hate the Bruins but that’s pretty good. Well played you sunovabich.
I’d like to point out that that the only two Panthers who had a problem with the pride jerseys are gone after only one season.
In Australia, a rugby league (NRL) club held a pride round where the team wore jerseys with rainbow stripes. Half the team boycotted the game. And it was an important game. Apparently it conflicted with their religious beliefs, despite wearing jerseys plastered with alcohol and gambling sponsors.
Kudos to the Avalanche
> religious beliefs,
The problem is that for decades the media has held being 'religious' with being 'virtuous'. Hopefully this is starting to shift, as it is just about using religion as excuse for bigotry. Going to hold up as well as when religious arguments were used to hold up slavery and segregation.
Kind of. They didn’t win a game for the rest of the season and the coach, who was a legendary figure at the club, got sacked.
They say it didn’t cause any infighting, but that’s just what they say. It cost them the season.
Look up Manly Sea Eagles Pride Jersey
And most of the dudes look like they need a hug from another dude (prob dad) really bad. I mean how fucked up emotionally do you have to be to think yeah these insane racist, bigoted, domestic terrorists are the only people who love me. Like wow bro what the fuck happened to you to make you join some stupid insurrection cosplayer crew?
>Proud Trump Supporter & MAGA Populist. MAGA means Make America Great Again. Nuclear energy advocate. #Karizona #Trump2024 #MAGA #Dilley300
Xitter profile of person who posted before the Avs roasted them to shreds.
I like shitter since X in Catalan, Basque, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and also in languages of indigenous American origin the X is pronounced like the English "sh”.
I get the feeling nuclear energy became quite popular with people like that person if only because it is contrarian to a portion of progressives/environmentalists.
That person is a fucking dipshit. You know they are too when they mention "lifestyle" and "choose to be gay" in the same paragraph. I wonder when this person "chose" to be straight and suppress those gay feelings they obviously have? I mean, it's a choice right?
Fuck no. I assure you, the vast majority of homophobes are straight. And with hundreds of millions of queer folks out there in the world I'm sure SOME of them are self-loathing, but that's like saying there are left-handed murderers. The two things aren't related.
That cheap pop psychology explanation of "gosh, what's HE compensating for" was basically just a snide playground joke fifty years ago and it's even less true now. A queer kid growing up today might not be safe coming out, but they've heard at least SOMEONE say that it's okay for them to be who they are, even if it's just on TV. That goes a *long* way towards curing any crippling self-hatred, and it's exactly the reason that real homophobes hate any kind of queer visibility—because it's so much easier if queer people bully and hide themselves.
tl;dr: homophobia comes 99.99% from people being ignorant bigoted assholes, not fear of their own gayness
> Fuck no. I assure you, the vast majority of homophobes are straight.
That's the thing, they think they *chose* to be straight. They don't understand that there are people out there who feel the same way about people of the same gender as they feel about people of the opposite gender. They think there are people out there who are *choosing* to be different just to pull some sort of political stunt, because that's what Fox News told them to believe.
People downplay that as a joke but it's more real than people think. It's not like they're all gay, either. Any kind of gender non-conformity, bi or pansexuality, something is always going on there.
Man, I wish the LGBTQ were a cool anti-family cult. However, they're just out there existing peacefully, trying to live their lives in peace and boring shit like that...
What a fucking twat
Also, the guy sees a *rainbow* and considers it "anti-family LGBTQ cult agenda." You know, I have a *slight hunch* that maybe this dude isn't particularly tolerant?
I think you're genuinely right. He's like, "We're not rounding them up and tossing them in jail, what more could you possibly ask of us?!"
People don't like to be told their actions or opinions are hateful, so they hold on to a narrative that what they're doing is fine because they're not actively gay-bashing.
Not perfect, but use nitter.net - replace the domain name part, but keep the rest the same.
So for this case: nitter.net/Avalanche/status/1750932680227639643?s=19
The tweet they replied to says that if they really wanted to advance gay rights, they’d hold Pride nights in Russia and the Middle East.
What does this guy expect them to do? Does he want the American hockey team to go host games in Russia and the Middle East for the purpose of holding pride nights? Braindead beyond belief.
“I got no problem with gays but why do they have to shove it in our faces?” asks the guy with a maga hat, Trump flags, ‘Muslim hunting permit’ bumper sticker, Punisher and Gadsden window stickers, and a confederate hood wrap on his truck on his way to a white supremacy rally.
“I’m just exercising my first amendment rights!”
I'm just hung up on trying to make sense of the original tweet. Dude is saying that because "Russia and the Middle East" don't have LGBTQ rights, that means no one cares about them? That's more leaps of logic and fact than I can even begin to fathom. It's also ironic that someone who asserts patriotic US flag iconography is using foreign countries' preferences as the exemplar for what is good and right.
I honestly don’t understand why people get so bent out of shape about this. Don’t like gay pride? Ok so what? Is it hurting you? No. Then get over it. Someone celebrating something I don’t care about has pretty much zero impact on me.
People go to their megachurch and make the pastors millionaires. I couldn’t care less.
Yeah I’ll second this. Hate you guys, but gotta give it up to the organization for this class act response to bigotry. Well done, Avs.
…now I think im gonna throw up
As a hockey fan who doesn’t live in Colorado but half of my college roommates do, I’m going to have to go visit one of my boys and catch a game, inclusivity is one of the things I love about the hockey sports community in particular and most sports communities in general.
Sounds like you need to be educated!
Jk. I don’t think they have. I went to a historically gay high school and don’t recall any of the guys participating in any sports, so I think they self-exclude. Similar to how straight men have been shamelessly excluded from cheerleading
I mean sport has all ways been ahead of the curve when it comes to getting underrepresented groups a place to thrive the same assholes bitching about LGBTQ+ and screaming “stop shoving the rainbow in my face” are the same assholes who back in the day would be screaming “stop shoving that black guy in our face” when Jackie was playing ball
Respectfully disagree — these are the people who were yelling slurs from the bleachers. It’s more socially unacceptable to do that now, so they play their bullshit off like this. Same people, same hate.
So they invite men in ridiculous outfits to wave massive straight pride flags around the rink? Or they just play hockey and people watch the game and have a normal night out
You mean a chance to cater to LGBTQ+ for 24 hours and earn some extra money by putting a rainbow on a few pieces of merchandise that they'll eat up and think you care?
And before anyone downvotes, I'm not anti LGBTQ+, far from it. But when corporate entities "recognize" anything for one night, it's always a profit motive.
that’s not really how it works from a corporate perspective. most companies have marketing people who recommend promotional activities to encourage fandom and attention from certain audiences, or, align themselves with cultural issues to show that as a corporation they support certain things. yes, of course they ultimately want to expand their audience, but it’s also a gesture from the company to show they are aligned with/support whichever cause.
Unfortunately for keyboard warriors is not as simple as “wE cAn mAkE nEw jeRseYs tO sELl fOr MonEy”
your response is eerily similar to a lot of the bud light criticism.
> that’s not really how it works from a corporate perspective. most companies have marketing people who recommend promotional activities to encourage fandom and attention from certain audiences,
You literally just explained exactly what I was saying and then pretended it was the opposite.
but do you understand the importance of public representation? both parties gain something.
capitalism makes money, and LGBTQ+ people become modernized in society, we have advanced a lot in the last 50 years thank to public displays like this.
its important that LGBTQ+ people remain humanized currently as religious fascism is rising within politics solely forces on dehumanizing them.
I understand a lot of the points made against "Rainbow Capitalism" and whatnot, but in this current political climate where LGBTQ+ folks have been demonized so much by conservatives, I believe that corporations and entities showing some kind of support does matter.
Lol this sport would take Saudi oil money in a second if one of them wanted to invest. They don’t care about you people. They just want to make more money
As they run Black Hitsory nights, military appreciation, etc.
Before I get down voted to hell. Neither one of them are an issued I support both. But saying they aren’t going to do theme night for certain groups while still doing it for some is absolutely folding to a specific loud outspoken group of bigotry.
Never understood how celebrating ANYONE is an issue.
Representation is everything and it’s classy as fuck for the Avs organization to stand up and make sure that the LGBT folks in their fan base feel seen.
I’ve been a Wild fan for over a decade and it pisses me off to this, but… GO AVS GO!!
Yeah, there was a big deal at the start of the season (maybe during last season too?) because the nhl was finding players for putting rainbow tape on their sticks.
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TIL I fuck with the Colorado Avalanche heavy.
I definitely had to read carefully after that first sentence, though.
Yup thought for a second we were about to read something real horrid.
"We're not shoving a Pride Rainbow in your face." Oh no... "We're celebrating the LGBTQ+ community who has normally been excluded from the sport we love." Oh thank God.
Got us in the first half, not gonna lie.
Then came the ball masher
Literally my exact thought. Double and triple take on that one
It's actually really smart because the ones we know that will bitch and moan about the sentiment don't have the reading comprehension to understand the sentiment.
Even as a Wings fan I agree with the AVs on this too.
Some things just unite us.
Yep, pretty simple let’s not exclude or alienate anybody based on who they are as a person…that way we can be constructive and united with our outrage and direct it towards Gary Bettman the way it should be.
Came here with the same thoughts. Did not expect to be an AVs fan today
SAAAAME LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
LGRW & LG-LGBTQ+ community!
I still hate the Colorado Avalanche but I fuck with their sentiment on Pride Night in hockey.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
I'm a colorado resident, and God I love their social media
Second only to the light show.
Tell me more about this light show, maybe I too am a fan of the Colorado Avalanche
https://youtu.be/WUZ0FrhwxcI?si=PCwQe7f5v8AphBVs They do a sort of holographic light show during games.
Sometimes I forget that we're living in the future. It's good to be reminded.
That was sick man, I’m a jersey collector so whenever I’m in a state with a hockey team I go to home game and buy one of their jerseys for my collection now I gotta go hit an Avs game stat.
if you like anything fun, hockey in Denver is for you. -A Wings Fan
I do be rooting for the Avalanche now
Aye. Good to see this from an NHL team.
It’s a shamed they’re owned by one of the Wal-Mart heirs and her husband.
And he can’t cut a deal so we watch games. Fucking disgraceful.
Damn, now as well.
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Yup sending this to my boy in Toronto right meow
This is the answer
What an absolutely ferocious burn
I saw "ferocious bum" at first because of context, and font size
The Colorado Avalanche have a history of celebrating LGBTQ+ fans and fighting against homophobia, you may remember [this tweet going viral a couple years back:](https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1579981560446562304) > This isn't about you. This is for our friends who historically don't feel safe ro welcomed in a hockey environment. And many who still don't. > We weren't excluding anyone, why are you? I love this team!
AFAIK, they also really swiftly banned the three Avalanche fans who homophobically attacked a visiting gay Bruins fan.
Wait wait wait. So that guy was a literal "Gay Bears fan?"
I picked my reddit username for the double meaning
I love it man, keep doing awesome shit.
As a Panther fan I fucking hate the Bruins but that’s pretty good. Well played you sunovabich. I’d like to point out that that the only two Panthers who had a problem with the pride jerseys are gone after only one season.
Get yourself a unicycle my bear friend
the leading players of the bruins are also known to be outspoken against homophobia
This pun just keeps on giving!
When they aren’t non-consensually licking other players.
Holy fuck that’s a boss move
Oh shit whaddup. I may need to start watching hockey now.
In Australia, a rugby league (NRL) club held a pride round where the team wore jerseys with rainbow stripes. Half the team boycotted the game. And it was an important game. Apparently it conflicted with their religious beliefs, despite wearing jerseys plastered with alcohol and gambling sponsors. Kudos to the Avalanche
I guess they boycott Sunday games, too?
I don’t roll on shabbot!
Bro shabbos brunch for us secular diaspora cats is straight titties.
This comment made me laugh so hard, thank you!
Glad I could be of service my dude!
You’d think that. But no
> religious beliefs, The problem is that for decades the media has held being 'religious' with being 'virtuous'. Hopefully this is starting to shift, as it is just about using religion as excuse for bigotry. Going to hold up as well as when religious arguments were used to hold up slavery and segregation.
Hey now supply side Jesus doesn’t like all this truth being told to his sheep.
Wonder if there was any infighting between players who were allies and homophobic players following this
Kind of. They didn’t win a game for the rest of the season and the coach, who was a legendary figure at the club, got sacked. They say it didn’t cause any infighting, but that’s just what they say. It cost them the season. Look up Manly Sea Eagles Pride Jersey
I know Manly is a place, but there is some hilarity in the "Manly Sea Eagles" having some homophobic players.
Like Proud Boys. They picked the gayest name for an anti gay group.
And most of the dudes look like they need a hug from another dude (prob dad) really bad. I mean how fucked up emotionally do you have to be to think yeah these insane racist, bigoted, domestic terrorists are the only people who love me. Like wow bro what the fuck happened to you to make you join some stupid insurrection cosplayer crew?
We need more people to stand up like they did here in America!
I wish twitter wasn't so enshittified that I can't see what they were reaponding to
probably for the best if you don’t lol
https://x.com/stellariannoah/status/1750906723924394374
>Proud Trump Supporter & MAGA Populist. MAGA means Make America Great Again. Nuclear energy advocate. #Karizona #Trump2024 #MAGA #Dilley300 Xitter profile of person who posted before the Avs roasted them to shreds.
Is ‘Xitter’ pronounced ‘Zitter’ or ‘Shitter’?
I default to shitter
I like shitter since X in Catalan, Basque, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and also in languages of indigenous American origin the X is pronounced like the English "sh”.
Probably more like zee-ter, tho I still haven’t come across this pronoun in the real world
It's not "ex-itter" which just rolls of the tongue. ?
All of those shit tags and *HE* is a nuclear energy advocate? Not what I expected to see today.
I get the feeling nuclear energy became quite popular with people like that person if only because it is contrarian to a portion of progressives/environmentalists.
Is it? Or do they just think that?
I can’t look into their heads, it’s just my interpretation of what I observe (on Reddit).
“I don’t hate gay people but I just get irrationally upset whenever someone acknowledges their existence”
That person is a fucking dipshit. You know they are too when they mention "lifestyle" and "choose to be gay" in the same paragraph. I wonder when this person "chose" to be straight and suppress those gay feelings they obviously have? I mean, it's a choice right?
No argument here.
Oh I know, I just loathe dumb dumbs.
It’s always projection. Every time.
Fuck no. I assure you, the vast majority of homophobes are straight. And with hundreds of millions of queer folks out there in the world I'm sure SOME of them are self-loathing, but that's like saying there are left-handed murderers. The two things aren't related. That cheap pop psychology explanation of "gosh, what's HE compensating for" was basically just a snide playground joke fifty years ago and it's even less true now. A queer kid growing up today might not be safe coming out, but they've heard at least SOMEONE say that it's okay for them to be who they are, even if it's just on TV. That goes a *long* way towards curing any crippling self-hatred, and it's exactly the reason that real homophobes hate any kind of queer visibility—because it's so much easier if queer people bully and hide themselves. tl;dr: homophobia comes 99.99% from people being ignorant bigoted assholes, not fear of their own gayness
> Fuck no. I assure you, the vast majority of homophobes are straight. That's the thing, they think they *chose* to be straight. They don't understand that there are people out there who feel the same way about people of the same gender as they feel about people of the opposite gender. They think there are people out there who are *choosing* to be different just to pull some sort of political stunt, because that's what Fox News told them to believe.
People downplay that as a joke but it's more real than people think. It's not like they're all gay, either. Any kind of gender non-conformity, bi or pansexuality, something is always going on there.
No, there actually _are_ cis straight homophobes.
Man, I wish the LGBTQ were a cool anti-family cult. However, they're just out there existing peacefully, trying to live their lives in peace and boring shit like that... What a fucking twat
>Some places are terrible for gay people, therefore everywhere should be terrible fot gay people.
Man they really tried hard to get every dog whistle in that post.
How does one be tolerant without accepting the “lifestyle”? Not kill them?
Also, the guy sees a *rainbow* and considers it "anti-family LGBTQ cult agenda." You know, I have a *slight hunch* that maybe this dude isn't particularly tolerant? I think you're genuinely right. He's like, "We're not rounding them up and tossing them in jail, what more could you possibly ask of us?!"
Guy probably stopped listening to Pink Floyd for getting political when he saw their album cover.
People don't like to be told their actions or opinions are hateful, so they hold on to a narrative that what they're doing is fine because they're not actively gay-bashing.
Also, who the fuck are they to assume they have any authority over whether or not someone’s lifestyle is acceptable or not
Don't look for logical consistency with bigots.
Reads like a mad libs for bigots
Not perfect, but use nitter.net - replace the domain name part, but keep the rest the same. So for this case: nitter.net/Avalanche/status/1750932680227639643?s=19
There's a browser extension which redirects you automatically too
And alternative servers in case nitter itself is rate limited. Very usefully, nitter shows a link to where you can find em when that happens
Great use of enshittification
It's good they're pro gay considering the assblasting they gave the Kings tonight
The tweet they replied to says that if they really wanted to advance gay rights, they’d hold Pride nights in Russia and the Middle East. What does this guy expect them to do? Does he want the American hockey team to go host games in Russia and the Middle East for the purpose of holding pride nights? Braindead beyond belief.
“I got no problem with gays but why do they have to shove it in our faces?” asks the guy with a maga hat, Trump flags, ‘Muslim hunting permit’ bumper sticker, Punisher and Gadsden window stickers, and a confederate hood wrap on his truck on his way to a white supremacy rally. “I’m just exercising my first amendment rights!”
[Reminds me of this webcomic](https://i.redd.it/h41ynczu3w571.jpg)
Why’d they have to make him cute?
Don’t think the artist can do non-cute lol
I'm just hung up on trying to make sense of the original tweet. Dude is saying that because "Russia and the Middle East" don't have LGBTQ rights, that means no one cares about them? That's more leaps of logic and fact than I can even begin to fathom. It's also ironic that someone who asserts patriotic US flag iconography is using foreign countries' preferences as the exemplar for what is good and right.
Bigots afraid they gonna suck a dick if they see a rainbow.
TIL I’m a Colorado Avalanche fan
Stan the lightning. Going to see them play on away game. Guess gone be an Avalanche fan
Fuck yeah, Avs. That’s a message I can get behind.
As a lifelong wings fan, I just now stopped hated the Avalanche.
i'm a devils fan who, ray borque aside, is still bitter about 2001, but i can be an avs fan for this.
Red Wings fan here. Still hate them. But...props for not being a shitty moral franchise.
I swore I’d never forgive them for the ‘95-‘96 cup sweep, but this is pretty chill of them.
Shouldn’t have thrown those rats at Roy.
I will forever be bitter with you on this one!
Didn’t Tanguay score 2 goals in that game,
Well, the Devils were the original Colorado NHL team.
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Avs my western cheat team growing up, sakic forsberg.....valeri fucking kamisky
How bout ya boy Patrick Roy
NHL 94 legend
I still hate the Avs, but I'll 100% back em for this
Hell yeah
They’re probably responding to my dumbass brother
that’s a great way to put it.
[more info](https://www.npr.org/2023/10/12/1205476006/nhl-bans-pride-tape-backlash)
Well shit. Gotta get me a jersey.
I'll support any team that so publicly dunks on MAGAt choads.
I honestly don’t understand why people get so bent out of shape about this. Don’t like gay pride? Ok so what? Is it hurting you? No. Then get over it. Someone celebrating something I don’t care about has pretty much zero impact on me. People go to their megachurch and make the pastors millionaires. I couldn’t care less.
Red wings fan, hate the avs with every fiber of my being. But I respect this 1000%
Yeah I’ll second this. Hate you guys, but gotta give it up to the organization for this class act response to bigotry. Well done, Avs. …now I think im gonna throw up
This avs fan acknowledges your respect and pays it back to you with the same enthusiasm 🤜
THAT is how you celebrate pride night! Way to go Avs
And just like that, I'm a Colorado Avalanche fan.
Yes tell them
As a hockey fan who doesn’t live in Colorado but half of my college roommates do, I’m going to have to go visit one of my boys and catch a game, inclusivity is one of the things I love about the hockey sports community in particular and most sports communities in general.
Well done, Avs. Don’t let the worst amongst us define sports.
The loud minority. Fuck em
The Avs are now my team 2. And I say this as a Devils fan who wishes Patrick Roy wasn’t so goooood
You had Brodeur. The man responsible for the trapezoid.
Grew up a Redwings fan, this is the only time I will ever like the Aves. Good on ya!
How were they excluded?
They used gaydar at the gate, if it went off then they kicked you out
Huge VGK fan here but Let’s go Avs! Great stuff
How have LGBT people been excluded from ice hockey in the past?
Sounds like you need to be educated! Jk. I don’t think they have. I went to a historically gay high school and don’t recall any of the guys participating in any sports, so I think they self-exclude. Similar to how straight men have been shamelessly excluded from cheerleading
This is fantastic. Great example to set.
Huh? Since when was one’s sexual preference a determining factor if one could waste one’s own money attending a professional sports event?
I mean sport has all ways been ahead of the curve when it comes to getting underrepresented groups a place to thrive the same assholes bitching about LGBTQ+ and screaming “stop shoving the rainbow in my face” are the same assholes who back in the day would be screaming “stop shoving that black guy in our face” when Jackie was playing ball
Respectfully disagree — these are the people who were yelling slurs from the bleachers. It’s more socially unacceptable to do that now, so they play their bullshit off like this. Same people, same hate.
The people unironically asking when "straight white male night" is going to be, not realizing every other night is "straight white male night".
So they invite men in ridiculous outfits to wave massive straight pride flags around the rink? Or they just play hockey and people watch the game and have a normal night out
Hell yeah. Go Ass! Hail Satan!
Hello from Central division rival Nashville. I just can’t stay mad at you guys! You’re too freaking fun and cool. Go Av’s (until we meet again)
I choose to believe this comment was intended to say Go Avs, but autocorrect made it even more appropriate.
"Go Ass? Hail Satan" is a local Denver reddit cheer for the Avs
Go ahead and google what I typed. It's an Avs meme.
You mean a chance to cater to LGBTQ+ for 24 hours and earn some extra money by putting a rainbow on a few pieces of merchandise that they'll eat up and think you care? And before anyone downvotes, I'm not anti LGBTQ+, far from it. But when corporate entities "recognize" anything for one night, it's always a profit motive.
that’s not really how it works from a corporate perspective. most companies have marketing people who recommend promotional activities to encourage fandom and attention from certain audiences, or, align themselves with cultural issues to show that as a corporation they support certain things. yes, of course they ultimately want to expand their audience, but it’s also a gesture from the company to show they are aligned with/support whichever cause. Unfortunately for keyboard warriors is not as simple as “wE cAn mAkE nEw jeRseYs tO sELl fOr MonEy” your response is eerily similar to a lot of the bud light criticism.
> that’s not really how it works from a corporate perspective. most companies have marketing people who recommend promotional activities to encourage fandom and attention from certain audiences, You literally just explained exactly what I was saying and then pretended it was the opposite.
but do you understand the importance of public representation? both parties gain something. capitalism makes money, and LGBTQ+ people become modernized in society, we have advanced a lot in the last 50 years thank to public displays like this. its important that LGBTQ+ people remain humanized currently as religious fascism is rising within politics solely forces on dehumanizing them.
I understand a lot of the points made against "Rainbow Capitalism" and whatnot, but in this current political climate where LGBTQ+ folks have been demonized so much by conservatives, I believe that corporations and entities showing some kind of support does matter.
Lol this sport would take Saudi oil money in a second if one of them wanted to invest. They don’t care about you people. They just want to make more money
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Fuck yes!! 💪
My kid learned how to skate from a gay hockey player. I will always welcome LGBTQ+ to the table.
Hell yeah Lemmy!
apparently some folks are upset that my child was around a gay person and learned from them. DO I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR THEM
Was this in response to something specific or just towards republicans?
Based Alert
How has the LGBTQ community been excluded from sports?
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Good for them
Fuck yes. Fuck the NHL for bending to bigots.
Isn't the NHL's position to not run themed "nights" with political stuff, but teams can still if they want?
As they run Black Hitsory nights, military appreciation, etc. Before I get down voted to hell. Neither one of them are an issued I support both. But saying they aren’t going to do theme night for certain groups while still doing it for some is absolutely folding to a specific loud outspoken group of bigotry. Never understood how celebrating ANYONE is an issue.
Sounds like something a gay would say - my Uncle. Fr tho, we should never have an issue with inclusion.
Thought your uncle was the gay and was gonna three cheers because my uncs were my first gay exposure! And they were always straight up.
He's not. But he's come a long way. It was more of an inside joke only I got haha.
Only bigots have an issue with inclusion
Hell yes say it again
This life-long Red Wings fan just looked at buying some Avs merch. Edit: Lemieux can still get fucked, tho
Based
YEAH!!!
I knew there was a reason I kinda liked the Avs
One thing that anti rainbow crowd loves is doing research.
They have just gained a new fan.
What kind of asshole wouldn’t celebrate Pride night! Good for the Avalanche calling them out!
Plenty of posts below that'll answer your question. In short: dickheads.
🌈 ❄️ x 1,000,000,000,000 Edit: Does the rainbow avalanche offend your narrow minds so much?
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That’s my mf team !!!!!!!
Childhood team = unfathomably based
This is bad ass
Cool that my home team is based as hell.
Representation is everything and it’s classy as fuck for the Avs organization to stand up and make sure that the LGBT folks in their fan base feel seen. I’ve been a Wild fan for over a decade and it pisses me off to this, but… GO AVS GO!!
I don't really follow hockey so I'm sure this has been done already, but rainbow tape on a hockey stick would work really well.
Yeah, there was a big deal at the start of the season (maybe during last season too?) because the nhl was finding players for putting rainbow tape on their sticks.