“The outside is evolving quicker than the inside,” McGillis says.
When Brock McGillis received one of seven trailblazer awards at the Carnegie Initiative Summit on Friday, it wasn’t because his work as an activist to bring cultural change to the sport ofBut the 39-year-old Toronto resident feels there has been progress in the push for acceptance for all in the sport, something that has been both well-received and met with hate.
“When we talk about hockey, there’s people on the inside of the locker room and there’s people on the outside, and the outside is evolving quicker than the inside,” McGillis said. “Until we can change that, it’s going to be difficult for a lot of minority people to feel comfortable and safe in the space, and even straight white kids who feel they don’t fit in. If you don’t feel you can conform to the culture, you’re going to have a difficult time in the sport.
“There’s teachers on staff where in hockey we have coaches who come in who volunteer, and I’m sure they’re great people but their language and behaviours may not always be … what they learned in the culture versus where we are as a society. That gets projected on the kids and it’s a cycle of language, attitudes and behaviours, and it continues to infiltrate generation after generation, and it becomes a vicious cycle.
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