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“I’ve achieved everything in hockey there is to achieve, and I just want to be happy in every part of my life.”
“By contrast, Heated Rivalry as queer cultural hockey content blows away everything that came before it.”
“Heated Rivalry is the story of two NHL players who carry on a torrid gay love affair from the closet.”
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“Rachel Reid, a Halifax-based writer and lifelong hockey fan, invented a whole new subgenre of romance fiction: the gay hockey romance.”
“After selling like gangbusters, it was only a matter of time before one of those books got optioned, and it was Reid’s good fortune that independent creator Jacob Tierney, the openly gay producer of Letterkenny (twelve seasons, ending in 2023) and its spinoff, Shoresy (four seasons, beginning in 2022, with a fifth confirmed as of this writing), was a fan.”
““Look,” the agent says, grabbing his client’s arm.”
“Let’s do this.” The two men walk down the hall of the NHL rink the player has called home for half a decade, stopping outside the media room.”
“Well, I have a partner too—he’s right there at the back of the room, I’ll introduce you afterward—and I just thought, life is too short.”
“Their families, friends, teammates, and the rest of the hockey world, including their fans, don’t suspect a thing because both are masculine presenting and date women, and they are presumed to hate each other as rivals (which they do when they first hook up).”
“But the overwhelming success of the Crave series, a Canadian production whose US rights were picked up by HBO and caught on like wildfire internationally at the end of 2025, has reignited the conversation about homosexuality in the last major professional sports league in North America without an openly gay player.”
“For obvious legal reasons, the league is never actually named, and team names and logos are changed.”