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Originally Posted by BoLevi
I prefer the term moral panic.
At any rate, let's unpack this. Women's suffrage was about the right to vote. All members of the LGBTQ+ community have the right to vote. Your comparison is invalid and such hyperbole deserves criticism.
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Being gay in Canada was actually criminal behaviour during the lives of many people who are on this board. Same sex marriage wasn’t legal until 2005. Gay spaces were targets of police activity as recently as the early 2000s. Legal equality for gay people is still relatively new. Trans people are even further behind in protections and are under real threat.
Pride night isn’t about legal equality. It’s about showing LGBTQ fans that the players give a #### about them. It’s about showing queer hockey players that they are welcome to be themselves within the hockey world. The fact that some players can’t even do that, shows that pride night and other queer community supporting events are still very necessary.