Episode 19 features Gordie Mitchard, a former club hockey player and referee. He talks about his experiences in a sport he loves, but a sport that also made him feel unwelcome as well as:
8:40: How did he keep playing hockey even with the culture around him?
14:30: Hearing hockey's language differently as an official versus a player
20:40: his coming out story
30:00: The importance of having out LGBTQ people stay in the sport despite its problems
41:30: Seeing how Hockey dealt with Yanic Duplessis' coming out
55:00: advice to people who want to come out in hockey
Come for the talk about hockey culture, stay for the jokes about Iowa football. Enjoy!
Intro and outro music is "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere, from his album "Music for Podcasts 5": freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rose…For_Podcasts_5
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