A day after the Dodgers fally embraced the memory of Glenn Burke — Major League Baseball’s first gay player — a group of Rays players unrcut their team’s Pri Night.
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- GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
- GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS
GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
Unls your grandad was gay AF. The year before, he nounced homophobic slurs and stood up as an LGBTQ ally. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOn BaseballAn Attempt at Incln Prov There Is More Work to DoA day after the Dodgers fally embraced the memory of Glenn Burke — Major League Baseball’s first gay player — a group of Rays players unrcut their team’s Pri Aguilar/Getty ImagSomethg was missg the top of the eighth ng on Saturday at Tropina Field St.
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GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS
An openly gay profsnal baseball player is speakg out followg the cisn ma by a number of Tampa Bay Rays players not to wear rabow-lored logos on their uniforms for “Pri Night” support of the LGBTQ+ muny. Bryan Ruby, an athlete and mician who me out publicly as gay last year, recently told USA Today that the behavr exhibed “sends a very clear msage” that “LGBTQ people are not wele here.
“A lot of guys jt don’t get that they’ve always had, and will ntue to have, gay teammat. It’s hard enough to be gay baseball, ” Ruby said.