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Contents:

• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT
• MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAYSHARHARE-SQUARE-442887MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO PLAYER, SEAN CONROY, GETS SHUTOUT HISTORIC START
• BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PROFSNAL BASEBALL PLAYER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
• BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY
• GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
• BRYAN RUBY, THE ONLY CURRENT GAY MAN PROFSNAL BASEBALL, SANG NATNAL ANTHEM AT DODGERS GAME
• 'SAD AND FURIATG:' OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ON RAYS PLAYERS' STANCE

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

The prsure toward acceptg pri players baseball may be why homosexual players who e out as gay before or after retirement have a short reer.

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

Later, terviewg wh SB natn outsports, he mentns hearg anti-gay slurs by teammat the locker room or gam felt like havg a knife the heart.

Sce 2016, no homophobic slur has been chanted for the first time, and looks like MLB is dog s bt to change the perspective toward homosexual players.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E 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. “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. "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.

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.

HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT

Today, as the Los Angel Dodgers prepare to play the World Seri agast the Tampa Bay Rays, -founr Jim Buzski remds that the Dodgers anchise is a part of LGBTQ sports history as havg the only two MLB players who ever were public about beg gay. Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team. ” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers — tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married.

MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAYSHARHARE-SQUARE-442887MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAY

The Dodgers and their manager, Tom Lasorda, prented a versn of themselv as a clean-cut, All-Amerin team and a flamboyantly gay player uld not be tolerated, pecially one who hung out wh Lasorda’s gay son. While baseball is still wag for s first openly gay active MLB player, Bean’s elevatn to a posn of thory the missner’s office is a sign that thgs have changed sce the days when Glenn Burke was lled a faggot by his manager.

An outfielr for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland A's between 1976 and 1979, Glenn Burke beme the first Major League Baseball player to e out as gay to teammat and owners while still active, though the team asked that he keep his sexualy secret om the public and he plied. @billybeanballThe only livg Major League Baseball veteran who has e out as gay, outfielr Billy Bean played for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padr over a reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995. He me out four years after retirg om the field, and wrote his 2003 book Gog the Other Way: Lsons From a Life and Out of Major League Baseball that the bullyg and homophobic world of baseball led him to walk away om pro ball.

@_DavidD_41A first baseman for the Helena Brewers, rhe Milwkee Brewers' rookie affiliate team Montana, David Denson 2015 beme the first player affiliated wh Major League Baseball to e out as gay.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO PLAYER, SEAN CONROY, GETS SHUTOUT HISTORIC START

@DunngtonTylerA pcher for rookie and Class A teams affiliated wh the Cardals 2014, Dunngton told Outsports he left pro ball bee of homophobia. "I experienced both ach and players make remarks on killg gay people durg my time baseball, and each ment felt like a knife to my heart, " he said.

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

Durg an 11-year mor league reer, John Dillger would vis bear gathergs on the road but kept his gay sexualy secret up until his retirement 2005. @tampaMarkJWhen Mark Johnson and teammat won a champnship for the Universy of Tampa 1998, he still was nial about his gay sexualy, he told Outsports, but he beme more nfint over his adult life.

When Tyson Lk, director of baseball operatns at the Universy of South Carola, cid on Natnal Comg Out Day 2016 to publicly reveal he was gay, he beme the first person Divisn I llege baseball to ever e out as LGBT.

An umpire for Major League Baseball most notable for a rather famo row wh Pete Rose, Dave Pallone would eventually be ducted to the first class of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame. As the MLB ntu embracg the LGBTQ muny, the players have also taken steps towards clivens wh Chigo Whe Sox pcher, Anrson Comás, g out as openly gay. Although Anrson Comás is only the send openly gay MLB player to e out while actively wh an anizatn, the Chigo Whe Sox, he is far om the first openly gay player to play profsnal baseball.

FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY

The former Detro Tigers outfielr me out as gay 1999, beg the send former MLB player to do so, followg the footsteps of Glenn Burke. "Former Player of The Day - Billy Bean - Outfielr, #Padr #Tigers #Dodgers #PlayerOfTheDay" - @GayBaseballFanIt has been a long road, but thanks to pneers such as Glenn Burke, Billy Bean, David Denson, and Anrson Comás, baseball is beg a more welg place for everyone.

Former Brav closer John Rocker’s homophobic and racist rant about the New York Cy 7 tra is one of the most famo diatrib sports history. The day after Bean’s appearance, Red Sox ticket sal executive David Baggs was moved to wre to team ownership and tell them he was gay.

Miñoso’s son Charlie is gay and on the one-year anniversary of Mnie’s ath, he penned a movg tribute revealg the heartfelt fatherly love he received after g out. When Colorado signed the lamentable Daniel Murphy 2019, a group of Rocki fans started an iative lled “Bas For Pri” which raised donatns for LGBTQ chari based on the homophobic first baseman’s offensive performance.

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

An important baseball barrier was broken the Brewers anizatn 2015 when David Denson beme the first mor leaguer to e out as gay while still an active player.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

After the New York Post prted a mor than an anonymo Mets star was gay, Piazza felt the need to ll an hont-to-god prs nference to announce “I’m not gay. Glenn Burke fished his reer wh a troubled tenure Oakland, as his last two seasons wh the A’s were marred by fights wh hecklers and anti-gay slurs om homophobic and profoundly overrated manager Billy Mart. It’s unfortunately mon for a team to announce a Pri Night on social media followed by the dregs of the ter postg homophobic vrl rponse.

Then after Yunel Esbar’s and Kev Pillar’s anti-gay slurs embarrassed the anizatn, Toronto partnered wh You Can Play to brg back Pri 2018 and did right. Augt 10th, 2022SAN DIEGO -- Former Giants Mor League pcher Solomon Bat me out publicly as gay an Instagram post on Tuday, also announcg that he had been released by the anizatn. ”Bat is the send Mor League player to e out as gay, jog former Brewers farmhand David Denson, who beme the first openly gay player affiliated baseball 2015.

No active Major League player has e out as gay, though Billy Bean, who now works as MLB’s senr vice print for diversy, equy and cln, and Glenn Burke both me out after their playg reers end.

PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY

Let’s add the followg to our list of gay baseballers:Jason Burch, pcher for mor league teams (Johnson Cy Cardals, Peoria Chiefs, GCL Orl, New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and more): He me out this year an terview wh .Here’s what he says about playg the mor leagu: “Anyone who has played wh me and has been the bullpen wh me knows I’m not aaid to talk about sex or gay rights or femism or anythg that some people might nsir amic. I was terted seeg how they handled and what they thought about .”He adds: “Lookg back, I wish I had told the whole world that I’m gay om day one. That feelg of beg relied upon, that people mt turn to you as a closer to make thgs right, to have that role – and to have people have that feelg about me that role – as a gay man, I thk that would have been a powerful msage.”John Dillger, pcher the mor league for teams such as the GCL Pirat, Lynchburg Hillts, Syrace SkyChiefs, and Elmira Pneers.

Want more gay male athlet?John tells more about beg a gay baseballer and has some words of advice to about g out to athlet who are planng to (via ): “Playg 162 gam a year, you spend a lot of time wh your teammat. That’s a really gay photo we published our origal post below but let’s talk about gay profsnal baseball players, shall we?First let’s start wh gay baseball player mors like this one om the New York Daily News: “Athlete is a Swch Hter: Which baseball heartthrob may be playg for the other team? By some, we mean actually jt two of them: William Daro “Billy” Bean who played for the Detro Tigers, the Los Angel Dodgers, and the San Diego Padr durg a major league reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995 and Glenn Burke who played for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics.Burke has earned the distctn as the first, and so far the only, baseball star (and maybe the only one team sports) to acknowledge his homosexualy while still playg actively.He is reported to have ma this awome statement which every gay man sports should take to heart: “They n’t ever say now that a gay man n’t play the majors, bee I’m a gay man and I ma .”If you want to know more about Glenn Burke, you should check out his tobgraphy, Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Story.Billy Bean is the send Major League Baseball athlete to have e out as a gay man.

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

His g out story 1999 or four years after he retired om baseball ma to the ont page of The New York Tim.Like Burke, Billy also wrote a book about his life as a gay ball player entled Gog the Other Way: Lsons om a life and out of Major League Baseball.What is he dog now?

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

An old photo of baseball stars Derek “Boner” Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Alex Gonzalez, Rey Ordonez, and Edgar Renteria lookg like they’re a gay bathhoe or somethg.They should have clud the Speedo wearg Gabe Kapler, don’t you thk?Gay Baseball Players List: MLB and Mor Leaguers.

-- Baseball history was ma Northern California we untry Thursday night when the sport's first active profsnal player to e out as gay pched a shutout before an enthiastic crowd that seemed more imprsed wh his performance than his role as a Conroy, 23, led the Sonoma Stompers to a 7-0 victory durg his first start wh the 22-man team that is part of the pennt Pacific Associatn of Baseball Clubs. "The atmosphere at Arnold Field, the Stompers' 370-seat home field, was low-key, wh no obv signs was a historic game or even gay pri night at the ballpark -- except for the rabow-striped socks and arm warmers some players (but not Conroy) Stompers did not make a special announcement or ll attentn to the tone so Conroy uld foc on his pchg, general manager Theo Fightmaster the startg lp was announced, however, Conroy got the loust cheer. "We've had gay people here forever; 's not like 's a big al, " said Barry Bosshard, who along wh his wife, Lra, is puttg up Conroy and another player at their home durg the Stompers' 78-game season.

Fightmaster says Conroy privately shared his sexual orientatn wh teammat and management before agreeg to e out publicly time for the team's gay pri night.

'SAD AND FURIATG:' OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ON RAYS PLAYERS' STANCE

"His goal has always been to be the first openly gay baseball player, so he was very much favor of tellg the story, of rryg that torch, " he Do, 67, attend the game wh 25 iends om a lol group for LGBT senrs and was one of three fans picked to throw out a first pch. "While this pcher who was unknown to me before your ll may not be a prospect for Major League Baseball, he certaly serv our applse, " Thorn, who had earned four sav as a closer for the Stompers before takg the mound as a starter for the first time, said he told his fay he was gay at age 16 and was open wh his high school, summer league and llege teams. "It don't matter if he pch the big leagu or not; he's gog to bee a lear (tonight) many ways, " Bean 's history-makg start me at a watershed moment for gay rights, wh the U.

Supreme Court schled to le any day now on whether to make same-sex marriage legal across the Vogler, 50, -owner of a lol pany that sponsors LGBT tours and events we untry, marveled om behd a fence not far om the tcher as he watched Conroy throw some of what turn out to be 140 grew up another part of Sonoma County and left as soon as he uld bee the anti-gay hostily was so high. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.