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Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- THE DODGERS WILL FALLY HONOR GAY BASEBALLER GLENN BURKE AFTER MISTREATG HIM S AGO
- DODGERS FALLY HONOR FIRST OPENLY GAY MLBER ON PRI NIGHT
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
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.” * gay dodger player *
’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.
THE DODGERS WILL FALLY HONOR GAY BASEBALLER GLENN BURKE AFTER MISTREATG HIM S AGO
”The issue, of urse, was that the Dodgers’ management had figured out Burke was gay.
DODGERS FALLY HONOR FIRST OPENLY GAY MLBER ON PRI NIGHT
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. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Dodgers Offer a Belated Embrace To a Player Shunned for Beg Gay.