Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’
- BY THE WAY, MIKE PIAZZA STILL ISN'T GAY
- MIKE 'I'M NOT GAY' PIAZZA TO WRE TOBGRAPHY
- SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS
- MIKE PIAZZA SAYS HE SERV HOF, TALKS PEDS, GAY MORS BOOK
- MIKE PIAZZA IS NOT GAY
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’
And 2002, Piazza held a news nference to clare, “I’m not gay.
BY THE WAY, MIKE PIAZZA STILL ISN'T GAY
” In dog so, he ma many thk he is, fact, gay. In the June/July 2002 issue of Details magaze, then-New York Mets manager Bobby Valente said he believed baseball was ready for an openly gay player.
MIKE 'I'M NOT GAY' PIAZZA TO WRE TOBGRAPHY
There is a persistent mor around town that one Mets star who spends a lot of time wh pretty mols clubs is actually gay and has started to thk about clarg his sexual orientatn.
Amidst swirlg mors that the gay player is him, the next day New York Met tcher Mike Piazza held a prs nference to clare, “I’m not gay.
SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS
” And dog so ma many thk he is fact gay. He agreed wh Valente that baseball players, ne years ago, would accept a gay teammate:. Yet many people, particularly gay people, took offense.
MIKE PIAZZA SAYS HE SERV HOF, TALKS PEDS, GAY MORS BOOK
Whether Piazza’s ments were supportive or not, the implitn to many was that beg lled gay was emed so bad that you had to clear up the mor. “He plays for the Mets” quickly beme shorthand for “he’s gay.
” And the Piazza-gay mors only tensified after the prs nference.
MIKE PIAZZA IS NOT GAY
To this day, many thk Piazza is gay based exclively on that prs nference; One mastream sports Web se said 2004: “When we thk of gay athlet, the first one who to md is Mike Piazza, then there is Olympic gold medalist diver, Greg Louganis. “If I was gay, I’d be gay all the way.
Back 2002, New York Mets legend Mike Piazza had to ll a prs nference to clare that he wasn't a homosexual and that the media were wrong to assume his sexualy. The prs nference end up makg more people believe that he was gay and didn't que work the favor of the Mets dugout.
A New York Post article om May 20th, 2002, started a mour that one of the members of the Mets dugout was gay and ready to e out to the public. Their belief was that when manager Bobby Valente remarked that baseball was then ready for gay players, he was referrg to one of his own players. "There is a persistent mor around town that one Mets star who spends a lot of time wh pretty mols clubs is actually gay and has started to thk about clarg his sexual orientatn.