It's so fucking sad that Shane has never had a really good experience coming out. Like Rose, for all loving intent behind it, essentially confronted him about it, Ilya initially laughed at him, he was forced to come out to his parents because they were walked in on, as a fandom I think we mostly agree that his coming out to Montreal went fairly poorly despite what rr says, and fucking Brad.
Like.
Reid. What the fuck.
I want Shane to have an experience where he gets in a cab in some place where hockey isn't very big, and the cabbie, making small talk, asks him if he has a wife, and Shane blurts out "I'm gay, I have a husband", and the cabbie is just like "Oh, cool man, good for you", and leaves it at that. It's such a small thing, but I think that sort of chill, casual acceptance, even from a stranger would be healing
