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[olivermoss]

* This is an unlisted youtube video that is Canadian news special from 2010 about the Legacy of Brendan Burke. In it, a then current NHL player confirms that there are gay players, their teams know, and other details. Also, it mentions a 'cancelled press conference' that was going to be about a player coming out.

Weird thing is, I swear to you I remember hearing about that press conference thing way back then. I wasn't into hockey then, but I knew people on LJ who were and also people who just were hype for queer news.

* Anyway, I am making references posts for myself of links to things like that. I also need to start one for some HR media about things Jacob Tierny and others have said, because they said cool thing... but if I ever quote them I want sources. There has just been so much media... so many good statements, François Arnaud pushing back against bullshit criticisms of the show, etc. I need to make like a personal reference index... eventually.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

The cancelled press conference thing sound familiar to me, too. Though same: I definitely wasn't even adjacent to hockey fan spaces at the time. It may have come up via broader queer news stuff. For me, it's possible I'm just thinking of that bit being repeated years later on tumblr, where great swaths of my fandom connections morphed into hockey RPF blogs.

[olivermoss]

I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure I remember it blowing up right when it happened, and a few details I remember seem to line up. I don't know if I can confirm any other details, but the news report confirms that it was going to happen, and then didn't for some reason.

[princessofgeeks]

I will love to see that list if you get around to it.

[olivermoss]

I will post it once it's in some sort of shape!

[rekishi]

I remember very dimly that we had heard about this press conference as a rumour that no one could ever confirm...

[olivermoss]

The news report has a pretty good source for it being real at least, which is interesting. I wish I had a source that was more citable than a pirated news report, tho

[rekishi]

oh yes but like...2010 internet and fandom was still a very different thing, sort of. but I agree, yes.