props to the maple leafs

I found this piece on drudge and it made the mighty obob happy.
Movie features gay Leaf, NHL, Leafs give flick full support

The appearance of the first gay Toronto Maple Leaf will be groundbreaking, even if it is only in celluloid.
Actor Tom Cavanaugh plays a gay ex-Leaf in a comedy film Breakfast With Scot currently being shot in the GTA and Hamilton. He's one-half of a homosexual couple — his partner is the team lawyer — whose lives are turned upside down after becoming guardians of Scot, "a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy," according to the storyline.

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"Sports is almost like the last bastion for that hurdle to be cleared in many ways," said Cavanaugh. "It's kind of an unwritten rule in sports circles that it's just not talked about, it's just not as accepted as it is in normal society. It's a strange thing. Hockey is no different.
"One of the most interesting questions to me is how is the media going to handle it if not just a hockey name but a pre-eminent hockey name comes out and says, `I was gay.' A couple of NFL linemen have come out post-career and said, `Yeah, I was gay,' but they didn't make that disclosure during their career because in their words it would have been `suicide.'"

This is a cold fact of life. In most professional sports, homosexuality will get you outted in a different way. I can;t say I agree with them, odds are some of the most homophobic spend to much time in the shower and walk with a towel covering thier chub a little to often. Allegedly.

Darryl Sittler and Mats Sundin, past and current Leaf captains, are in favour of the project, which is due in theatres next Christmas.
"Obviously, it's the real world we live in and I have no issues with it at all," said Sittler. "To me, those things have come a long way and they should."

But props to the NHL and Maple Leas for being accepting and adult enough to allow the trademark use of their name and product. As well as all facilites possible.
But a quote struck me funny

"I never in a million years thought when we finally went to shooting we'd be donning Leaf sweaters," Cavanaugh said yesterday. "I thought it'd be that thing where it's the Toronto Razorbacks or whatever. There's something instant to the viewer when you put on a Leafs jersey or any Original Six jersey.

And I then thought, who are the Original Six?
Boston Bruins

Chicago Blackhawks

Detroit Red Wings

Montreal Canadiens

New York Rangers

Toronto Maple Leafs

The whole purpose of this post was not to preach tolerance, but to educate us on who the Original Six of teh NHL were. That also makes obob giggle.