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For many years, Brock McGillis lived a lie — “a life of denial, because I am gay.” Growing up in a culture of hockey, the former OHL, CIS and semi-professional hockey player felt there was no way his peers would ever accept his sexuality. “Hockey,” he writes in a personal story for Yahoo! Sports, “has always been homophobic.” I can’t count the amount of times I heard phrases like: That’s gay or what a homo in the dressing room over the course of...

Former Ontario Hockey League player Brock McGillis came out as gay in a first person piece for Yahoo! Canada and he's speaking out on the outpouring of support he's received since doing so. He tells Yahoo!: “I didn’t expect this,” McGillis said from his hometown of Sudbury, Ont. “This was on a whole different level. On Thursday the amount of messages I received – text messages, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram – I would say was almost in the 10,000 range.” People he hasn’t...