First active pro baseball player out as gay – The Hill

Contents:

• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY

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

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

" 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. Love songs don’t need to be gay or straight.

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

”Ruby told his fay and close iends he was gay four years ago, then his teammat this summer. 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.

FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY

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