Posted on 06/28/2010 2:28:47 PM PDT by raptor22
An eclectic mix of stars — The Stanley Cup with Blackhawks defenseman Brent Sopel, The Cubs’ Ernie Banks and country singer Chely Wright — basked in the celebration of an estimated 400,000 who attended the 41st Annual Pride Parade in the Lakeview neighborhood. The parade started at noon.
Wright, who recently came out as a lesbian, is the parade’s Grand Marshal. Wright said her decision to publicly declare her sexual orientation has been “a dynamic experience.”
Sopel, who stood on the float of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association, said he participated in the parade to honor the memory of the gay son of his former general manager.
Brendan Burke had come out as a gay man when he was 21 and working for the hockey team at Miami University of Ohio. He was killed in February in a car accident on a snowy and icy road in Indiana. Burke is the son of Brian Burke, the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. The elder Burke was Sopel’s general manager while he played with the Vancouver Canucks.
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Chicago is more dangerous than Baghdad!
I always thought there was something a little ‘off’ about the Cubs.
SnakeDoc
Well I wouldn’t have been surprised by the White Sox, but the Cubs? Who would have thought. Methinks Chicago is pretty gay.
I’m sick of these teams getting involved in political issues.
The Tigers played the Los Mets in NY last week.
Everyone has a stick and they puck around in bathhouses
What on earth is gay hockey?????
I think you may be opening a can of worms....
Nudes on ice, perhaps?
What is gay pride????
You can't be serious. What would possibly make you think that? (Not anything close to resembling reality).
Highsticking is desirable in homohockey.
And they say soccer is gay.
A poke check? :)
The Cubs suck ... REALLY!
Hockey ping to the pingmaster.
They’re called “figure skaters”
And maybe a bunch of minor penalties for checking from behind (Rule 44) and holding the stick (Rule 54), too.
This is what happenswhen things are controlled from the top down.
Big, big teams on big, big television, the players paid at the multi-million dollar level.
things are more easily taken over when power and prestige is all at the top.
So stop watching! Play on a local team yourself. Return Big Sports to the neighborhood.
I can’t stand televised sports myself but then I’m a chick. And I don’t have a damned television.
They are pushing their lifestyle down our throats whether we like it or not. I fear it’s another lost battle in fight for morals.
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