You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf.

My shoulder hurts. If you missed the top of last week's show, I tore my rotator cuff.

My doctor swears he can rebuild me. He has the technology. I will be better than I was before.

Better, stronger, faster. But the surgery to rebuild my shoulder was postponed. So instead of

getting to enjoy me this week post surgery and on powerful pain killers, which could have been fun,

you get to enjoy me this week in pain, sleep deprived and very, very grumpy.

And it's probably why I'm going to say what I'm about to say, because in addition to my

shoulder being impaired, maybe my judgment is impaired, but I'm just going to say it.

Can we stop trying to cram hockey players into pride jerseys? Please.

I don't know how many hockey fans are also Savage Love cast listeners. Maybe there's some overlap.

I'm guessing not a lot. So you're probably not following hockey player pride jersey gator,

jersey gauze or whatever we're calling it. But it goes like this. Hockey teams, like so many sports

teams have for years now are hosting pride nights, which is fine. I guess pride used to be a day,

then it was a weekend, then it was a month, and now just like it's always happy hour somewhere,

it's always pride somewhere, including hockey arenas. Now I love pride. I also love Christmas,

and one of the things I love about Christmas is that it doesn't last all year. Anyway, entire hockey

teams keeping asked to wear pride jerseys on pride nights, and some hockey players don't want to.

And why not? Well, I hope you're sitting down, and if you're listening while driving,

you might want to pull over for a second. Some hockey players are homophobes, and some hockey

players are religious. And so these religious homophobic hockey players are refusing to wear pride

jerseys and instantly becoming heroes to right wing homophobes everywhere. It's not a good look

for us. I mean, for queers, it's not a good look for us. But before we get to why,

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