Pro baseball player Bryan Ruby out as gay - Outsports

Contents:

• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY
• BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PROFSNAL BASEBALL PLAYER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• LGBTQ MAVERICK: RUBY BE LONE ACTIVE OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

Yet 's Ruby's hidn part of his inty that he now believ n have the biggt impact, partially bee 's so foreign to the worlds of baseball and untry is a gay man, the only active profsnal baseball player at any level to be publicly out. " FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salari and payrolls for every major league teamHis g out follows a summer which Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib and Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop also me out as gay.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

“As a untry mic songwrer, at first I thought beg gay was a huge weakns, ” said Ruby, who will be showsed the upg documentary, "Out Nashville. Love songs don’t need to be gay or straight.

PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY

”Ruby told his fay and close iends he was gay four years ago, then his teammat this summer. I've been a baseball player sce I was seven or eight, way before I knew I was gay.

BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

"When Bryan told me he was gay I was shocked actually, " Lren Ruby said of the revelatn when Bryan was 21. And the male sports world n be very homophobic wh gradg banter. "I grew up a culture where homosexualy was taboo, " Jon, a baseball ach at Friends' Central High School Philalphia, said.

"I had an unual look to that culture, though, bee my brother's gay. All of the sudn, the (gay) slurs that I was hearg ronated much differently. Gabriel Cotto, the Volno' tcher, said he never would've pictured Ruby as gay.

BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PROFSNAL BASEBALL PLAYER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But Cotto immediately embraced Ruby once he told him bee his own father is gay.

"But I ed to get bullied and fights growg up bee my pops is gay.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY

Bean played the major leagu as an outfielr for nearly a and me out as gay himself after his retirement the 1990s.

"A steppg stone that uld have a domo effect for other gay profsnal athlet. "It's not all super rosy, " Ruby ach om past generatns have been subtly homophobic, urgg him to keep his sexual orientatn a secret or to be wh a woman to keep up a ont. Teammat over the years have slipped out gay slurs.

Gehrig Richs, the Volno' assistant ach, said he imag teammat beg protective of Ruby if gay slurs were to persist once he's out publicly. " But there is part of the paradox of beg closeted: Homophobic language begets fear. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

LGBTQ MAVERICK: RUBY BE LONE ACTIVE OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

I'm a footballer and I'm gay. "He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay!

Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out. "I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media.

The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.