Gay baseball pro Bryan Ruby addrs Rays Pri patch ntroversy

Contents:

• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER’S TEAMMAT ASK ABOUT HIS BOYIEND, ‘WEDDG’ ADVICE
• BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• BRYAN RUBY, THE ONLY CURRENT GAY MAN PROFSNAL BASEBALL, SANG NATNAL ANTHEM AT DODGERS GAME
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY WENT TO 6 PRI NIGHTS THIS SEASON. THIS IS WHAT HE SAW

'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.

GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH

" 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. “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.

”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. "When Bryan told me he was gay I was shocked actually, " Lren Ruby said of the revelatn when Bryan was 21.

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9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

"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.

PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY

Gabriel Cotto, the Volno' tcher, said he never would've pictured Ruby as gay.

GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER’S TEAMMAT ASK ABOUT HIS BOYIEND, ‘WEDDG’ ADVICE

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.

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

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

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BRYAN RUBY, THE ONLY CURRENT GAY MAN PROFSNAL BASEBALL, SANG NATNAL ANTHEM AT DODGERS GAME

"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.

GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY WENT TO 6 PRI NIGHTS THIS SEASON. THIS IS WHAT HE SAW

Teammat over the years have slipped out gay slurs.