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Two Canucks fans wearing pink T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Hockey Luvin Homo" were removed from a Vancouver Canucks hockey game Thursday night.
The two men were also wearing bright blue wigs, red lipstick, cat's-eye glasses and large pearl costume necklaces -one sported an electric-blue boa -and were drinking beer out of fluted, rose-coloured glasses.
They were sitting in the first row, right behind the Canucks bench.
Initially their T-shirts appeared to read "Hockey Luvin," but when a TV camera panned over, the two young men removed duct tape from their shirts to unveil the word "homo."
The back of their shirts read "Henrietta" and "Daniella."
They apparently call themselves the Sedin sisters.
The Vancouver Canucks issued a statement Friday saying the young men were removed from the arena after they were asked -but refused -to cover the derogatory term for gays.
"Canucks Sports & Entertainment is committed to providing a safe and enjoyable atmosphere for all guests who enter into Rogers Arena," said the statement.
"The public use of any derogatory terms targeted at a specific group of people, whether based on ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is strictly prohibited."
But the two men told the NHL blog Puck Daddy on Friday that they were both gay and "ardent Canucks fans for many longsuffering years."
"We have made appearances at gay sports bars in Vancouver as the sisters Henrietta and Daniella with great hilarity and support," said the man who calls himself Henrietta -he didn't want his real name used -in an email to Puck Daddy.
"This was not a stunt or done to be rude or offensive. We were there to show our and the Vancouver gay community's total and absolute support of our Canucks as they took the Presidents [Trophy] and begin their journey to the Stanley Cup."
Canucks chief operating officer Victor de Bonis said Friday the organization has never encountered the issue before.
"I think it's unfortunate," he said. "This issue's never come up before."
But, de Bonis said, he has a lot of confidence in the staff who made the call to evict the pair, saying, "The staff are doing their best."
He said he didn't know if the staff were told by the men that they were gay.
The fact that the two men had used tape to initially conceal the word deemed offensive by staff "seemed like indirectly they're acknowledging the issue," de Bonis said.
He also pointed out that the men had not phoned the Canucks to complain.
"Usually if a fan is unhappy, you hear about it the next day," de Bonis said.Read more: 'Hockey Luvin Homos' evicted from Canucks game
