In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so.
Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
CHICAGO (AP) — When to baseball and LGBTQ+ clivy, Billy Bean often flash back to his playg his reer whout tellg his parents about his life as a closeted gay ballplayer. And Lat Ameri where many view homosexualy as a s. Almost 80 years after Jackie Robson broke the majors’ lor barrier a landmark moment for the Amerin Civil Rights Movement, the duelg exprsns of LGBTQ+ support and pop-up opposn relled the qutn of when MLB might wele s first active openly gay player — a barrier already cleared by the NBA and NFL.
“If somebody here lled a meetg and me out as gay, I thk everybody would embrace that, have their back and lerally jt move on and foc on wng the gam, which is really the important thg and what matters, ” Milwkee Brewers outfielr and 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich said. Anrson Comás, a mor league pcher the Whe Sox anizatn, announced that he was gay an Instagram post Febary. “A gay man baseball?
9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
No way, ″ he told the, 59, said he don’t thk the absence of an openly gay player is the right way to evaluate clivy the major leagu, jt like he don’t thk the sport should be evaluated by a ment that might not be to the timg for the majors’ first active openly gay petor, Bean said he unrstands why a player would want to foc on his reer stead of alg wh the challeng that go along wh breakg that barrier.
Consirg how well attend most Pri Nights are, mt take astonishg levels of homophobia to make a baseball executive say no to the ncept of higher profs.
As a gay baseball fan, I n’t beg to tell you how overjoyed I was to hear this. “The gay muny is unr attack, ” says Bob, a 60-year-old baseball fan om Rton, Virgia, who asked that his last name not be ed. In 2022, thoands poured through a 1 ½-e route, the exuberance matched only by rporatns hopg to goose their credibily wh a, he se a landspe where a “Don’t Say Gay” law n closet youth Florida and Texas Gov.