Former major league pcher T.J. Hoe out as gay

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T.J. Hoe, who is only the third Major League Baseball player to e out as gay, said shame kept him the closet, but “love has fally set me ee.”

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

In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so. * gay baseball player *

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.

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" 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.

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

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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.

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

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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. And the male sports world n be very homophobic wh gradg banter.

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

"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.

HOW GAY BASEBALL PLAYER MATT BARKER OVERME ADDICTN, AND LEARNED TO LOVE HIMSELF

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

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

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

PRO BASEBALL PLAYER BRYAN RUBY OUT AS GAY

"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.

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