Nancy Drolet
(August 2, 1973 - living) Canada
Ice hockey player
 Born in Drummondville, Quebec. Six-time world champion hockey player and Olympic silver medalist. She scored overtime game-winning goals in the 1997 and 2000 world championships and led Team Canada in scoring in 2001. Nancy is captain of the Vancouver Griffins of the National Women's Hockey League.
She came out publicly in 2002. According the Xtra Magazine in Toronto: Drolet, a six-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist, "married" her long-time partner Nathalie Allaire in a civil union ceremony at the couple's cottage in the Laurentians in Quebec in August. Drolet says it was a private affair for family and friends, but when a reporter from a local weekly newspaper showed up, she talked.
She says her union to Allaire, who helps run Drolet's women's hockey school in her hometown of Drummondville, Quebec, helped rejuvenate her emotionally. Quebec's civil union law, passed in June 2002, gives gay and lesbian couples in that province many of the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. According to Drolet's agent Bernard Hogue, reaction to the union has been positive.
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