Emotional gala at the Hockey Hall of Fame marked start of event bringing big names together to share hard truths, build trust and advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the sport
Black and white. Indigenous. Men and women. Gay and straight. Blind and otherly abled. They gathered in Toronto over the weekend, nearly 500 in all, to foster change in hockey and more actively advocate for it.
Trevor Georgie, the president and general manager of the Sea Dogs, said the club was the first in the QMJHL to establish a Pride Night and that, the first professional hockey player to come out as gay, has skated with the team and addressed its players three times. He considers himself a beneficiary of civil-rights activists Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and described the Carnegie Summit as a venue for difficult conversations.
“In the last week I have seen so many people stand up against hatred expressed toward the LGBTQ community,” McGillis said. “I think it is under attack and it breaks my heart.” “The culture needs to and will be changed. It may be small bits at a time but it is far more than symbolic for me. I am optimistic that 10 years from now we will look at the progress we have seen and not believe it. We know that trust will not be built easily but we are committed that it will happen.”
“It is the life I have lived,” he said as he drew comparisons with the relatively low number of players of colour in organized hockey. “We’d have a meeting of a conference of Black judges and you could put it in a very small room. There was just a handful of us.” “When I joined I never thought this change was going to be revolutionary,” she said. “I thought it was going to be evolutionary. We all have to keep leaning in.”
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