The
Washington Capitals
took a break from their regular hockey-related
Twitter
content to discuss
preferred pronouns
at length on Tuesday ahead of the team’s Pride night, which it holds to build “a community that welcomes and celebrates authenticity and the love of hockey.”
A string of tweets promoting the event included a slideshow presentation on LGBT terminology with the caption, “Education is celebration.”
Giant Food is also featured as a sponsor of the event. One photo shared by the team explained that “pronouns are used to refer to someone in a way that accurately reflects their identity.” Subsequent slides went on to define gay, lesbian, transgender, cisgender, and queer.
The NHL team’s Twitter even broke down the meaning of the pride progress flag, explaining that red symbolizes life, orange healing, yellow sunlight, green nature, blue serenity, and purple spirit, with black and brown representing people of color, and the pink, light blue, and white representing transgender people.
SPORTS MEDIA THROW A TANTRUM OVER HOCKEY PLAYER’S PRIDE NIGHT SLIGHT
Education is celebration.#Pride | @GiantFood pic.twitter.com/Grqtg03x1L
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) January 17, 2023
This comes two days after Philadelphia Flyers defender Ivan Provorov
refused to take part in the team’s warmup for “LGBTQ+ Pride Night,”
with the rest of the team wearing Pride-themed warmup jerseys and wrapping rainbow tape around their hockey sticks.
Provorov said he opted not to participate “to stay true to myself and my religion.” Coach John Tortorella still had Provorov play in the game.
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The NHL’s Twitter account has also broken from traditional hockey content to pronounce its allyship to the LGBT community. A
tweet from the league in November
announced to its followers that “trans women are women.” This was part of an initiative on the league’s part titled “Hockey is for Everyone.”
