Breakfast With Scot puts gay athlete(s) in the spotlight

Gay hockey family comedy Breakfast With Scot opened recently in Canada to a warm reception and some coverage in the mainstream press focusing squarely on the "gay hockey" angle.

Amidst a lot of speculation about whether or not a hockey player will ever come out of the closet, we do learn one thing: there is apparently one gay athlete in the whole of Canada, former Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury.

Tewksbury is featured in both segments discussing the film, leading one to imagine that his his publicist is thanking the Canadian gods right now that this film has come along and made his client the go-to for all gay Canadian sports-related inquiries.

On the whole, the coverage is pretty gay-friendly in that casual "well, it's so not about being gay because that would imply that being gay was something to be 'about' in the first place" kind of way, and the Entertainment Tonight Canada segment is comforting in that it suggests that even though ET may have made its way over the border, Mary Hart is still safely contained somewhere in the Hollywood Hills.

Check out two clips here and here, and thanks to RJ for the tip!