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At Pri Night, Los Angel will celebrate the life of Glenn Burke, M.L.B.’s first openly gay player. His fay will be there hopg the honor mak Burke “partially whole.”

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CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY

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’s first openly gay player. In stagg their nth annual LGBTQ+ Pri Night, they will celebrate their former outfielr — and the first major leaguer to have e out as gay — on Friday durg their seri wh the closg the circle 44 years later.

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”The issue, of urse, was that the Dodgers’ management had figured out Burke was gay.

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Lasorda Jr., who was known by many as Spunky, was also gay and died of AIDS plitns 1991, though his father publicly nied his son’s sexualy and the e of his ath.

One teammate, Clll Washgton, said Mart troduced Burke to the team wh a homophobic slur. Bean, also a former Dodgers outfielr, was the send — and still the only other — ex-big-leaguer to e out as gay.

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