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Openly Gay Players, Coaches Find Refuge in Lacrosse
Openly Gay Players, Coaches Find Refuge in Lacrosse
May 23, 2016
Editor's Note:
This article originally appeared in the March 2016 edition of Lacrosse Magazine. The second-annual Courage Game supporting the LGBT community is Sunday at Penn Park in Philadelphia and will feature teams boys' and girls' lacrosse teams aged U7 through adult coached by pro players and coaches and NCAA coaches.
Sign up at CourageGame.org.
Openly Gay Players, Coaches Find Refuge in Lacrosse
by Justin Feil | LaxMagazine.com | Twitter
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A changing culture could help open opportunities. In June 2015, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. The You Can Play Project — co-sponsor of the Courage Game with Lacrosse All Stars — and Athlete Ally are two organizations dedicated to making sports inclusive for all sexual orientations and gender identities.
"These kids that play in this game aren't going to say things like 'fag' and, 'That's so gay,' as much as they would have because they played in this game," {Andrew Goldstein, who was out as a goalie at Dartmouth many years ago} said. "They'll remember for the rest of their lives that they stood up for a gay kid, and they don't want to make other people to feel bad like that. If you do want to change the culture, it's not by waiting for the pros to come out and then supporting them, it's by raising awareness of the kids, by letting them know they're playing alongside for the next 10 years, kids who are gay, straight, maybe transgender. We should be careful of the things we say and we should respect everybody as long as we play sports."
ESPN wasn't filming when {Princeton's Hall of Fame women's lacrosse coach Chris Sailer} flipped the script on her Princeton bio, but she has become to {Penn assistant coach Liz Kittelman Jackson} what Goldstein is to {13-year-old Braeden Lange}. ... "You can never have enough good role models," Jackson said. ... "That was kind of a defining moment," Sailer said, "sitting in that room, hearing [Jackson] make that comment, knowing there's a double standard and that I should do something about it."
They stand with each other. They stand with you.
May 23, 2016
Editor's Note:
This article originally appeared in the March 2016 edition of Lacrosse Magazine. The second-annual Courage Game supporting the LGBT community is Sunday at Penn Park in Philadelphia and will feature teams boys' and girls' lacrosse teams aged U7 through adult coached by pro players and coaches and NCAA coaches.
Sign up at CourageGame.org.
Openly Gay Players, Coaches Find Refuge in Lacrosse
by Justin Feil | LaxMagazine.com | Twitter
....
A changing culture could help open opportunities. In June 2015, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. The You Can Play Project — co-sponsor of the Courage Game with Lacrosse All Stars — and Athlete Ally are two organizations dedicated to making sports inclusive for all sexual orientations and gender identities.
"These kids that play in this game aren't going to say things like 'fag' and, 'That's so gay,' as much as they would have because they played in this game," {Andrew Goldstein, who was out as a goalie at Dartmouth many years ago} said. "They'll remember for the rest of their lives that they stood up for a gay kid, and they don't want to make other people to feel bad like that. If you do want to change the culture, it's not by waiting for the pros to come out and then supporting them, it's by raising awareness of the kids, by letting them know they're playing alongside for the next 10 years, kids who are gay, straight, maybe transgender. We should be careful of the things we say and we should respect everybody as long as we play sports."
ESPN wasn't filming when {Princeton's Hall of Fame women's lacrosse coach Chris Sailer} flipped the script on her Princeton bio, but she has become to {Penn assistant coach Liz Kittelman Jackson} what Goldstein is to {13-year-old Braeden Lange}. ... "You can never have enough good role models," Jackson said. ... "That was kind of a defining moment," Sailer said, "sitting in that room, hearing [Jackson] make that comment, knowing there's a double standard and that I should do something about it."
They stand with each other. They stand with you.
