With a hat tip to the wildly popular streamer Heated Rivalry, a gay hockey player is sharing his coming out story with the world. Jesse Korteum, who’s been on the ice since childhood, posted to social this week, “I realized it is finally time to share a journey I have kept close to the vest for a long time.”

Hockey player Jesse Kortuem, who played as a defenseman and center in several leagues before walking away from the sport, has publicly come out as gay, crediting “Heated Rivalry” as partially inspirin...