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Contents:

• OUT AT WRIGLEY CELEBRAT THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF S TRENDSETTG ‘GAY DAY’ SUNDAY
• THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY
• CUBS WEIGH ON POSSIBILY OF A GAY TEAMMATE
• CUBS HAVE HAD MOST MLB GAY DAYS, THE INDIANS HAVE HAD ONE
• DANIEL MURPHY DRAWS BOOS OM GAY CUBS FANS AT PRI NIGHT GAME
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• BULLS REPORTEDLY AMONG THE TEAMS INTERTED FREE AGENT FORWARD RUDY GAY

OUT AT WRIGLEY CELEBRAT THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF S TRENDSETTG ‘GAY DAY’ SUNDAY

Prent a check to the Legacy Project to support the creatn of a bronze memorial marker honor of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay MLB player, which will be on display on the Legacy Walk Lakeview.

Chigo Gay Men’s Chos, an clive, muny-based performg arts anizatn that creat mil experienc to enterta and enlighten, spire change and build muny, will enterta fans pregame at Gallagher Way as well as sg the natnal anthem.

Former Brav closer John Rocker’s homophobic and racist rant about the New York Cy 7 tra is one of the most famo diatrib sports history. The day after Bean’s appearance, Red Sox ticket sal executive David Baggs was moved to wre to team ownership and tell them he was gay. Miñoso’s son Charlie is gay and on the one-year anniversary of Mnie’s ath, he penned a movg tribute revealg the heartfelt fatherly love he received after g out.

THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY

When Colorado signed the lamentable Daniel Murphy 2019, a group of Rocki fans started an iative lled “Bas For Pri” which raised donatns for LGBTQ chari based on the homophobic first baseman’s offensive performance. An important baseball barrier was broken the Brewers anizatn 2015 when David Denson beme the first mor leaguer to e out as gay while still an active player. After the New York Post prted a mor than an anonymo Mets star was gay, Piazza felt the need to ll an hont-to-god prs nference to announce “I’m not gay.

CUBS WEIGH ON POSSIBILY OF A GAY TEAMMATE

Glenn Burke fished his reer wh a troubled tenure Oakland, as his last two seasons wh the A’s were marred by fights wh hecklers and anti-gay slurs om homophobic and profoundly overrated manager Billy Mart.

CUBS HAVE HAD MOST MLB GAY DAYS, THE INDIANS HAVE HAD ONE

After steppg down as CEO 2007, former Pirat owner Kev McClatchy me out as gay a 2012 New York Tim article. It’s unfortunately mon for a team to announce a Pri Night on social media followed by the dregs of the ter postg homophobic vrl rponse. Then after Yunel Esbar’s and Kev Pillar’s anti-gay slurs embarrassed the anizatn, Toronto partnered wh You Can Play to brg back Pri 2018 and did right.

DANIEL MURPHY DRAWS BOOS OM GAY CUBS FANS AT PRI NIGHT GAME

Pregame performance by the Chigo Gay Men’s Chos at Gallagher Way, whose members also will sg the natnal anthem. Pregame ceremony to honor the late Glenn Burke as the first openly gay MLB player wh an ductn to the Legacy Project’s “Legacy Walk” Lakeview. Gubd worked advertisg sal for the Chigo Free Prs, a now funct gay newspaper, and wanted to make the Cubs the first profsnal male sports team to advertise a gay paper the was his late 20s, and had jt e out of the closet a “major way.

GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

The Cubs agreed to his sal pch, and one year later Gubd ma an even bigger one: What if the Cubs hosted what he believed would be the first-ever “gay day” profsnal sports, a day for LGBTQ Chigoans to e together for a baseball game?

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

“It all started at Wrigley Field 2001, ” Gubd the Cubs agreed to the ia, Gubd bought 2000 tickets, and walked around sellg them at gay bars.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

But after he me out, he stopped gog to Wrigley bee he heard so much homophobic language at the gam. And every time I always hear the word ‘f—, ’” he the subject of gog to a game me up wh iends they would say, “‘Oh, no, I would never go, ’s so homophobic. The first year wh 2, 000 people, you had gays, lbians, bisexuals; you had iends the muny showg off...

“And also I said my end goal was for openly gay players to play, and for other teams to do (an event). ’ No, I’ve had my disagreements and I’ve talked to them about , ” he said, referencg former Cubs player Daniel Murphy’s homophobic ments.

“But the thg is, they were the first team to advertise a gay paper, the first male sports team to do a gay pri float the untry. Antigay Christian activist and fired realy show host David Benham ma news last week when he claimed that he nverted a man away om his "gay liftyle" wh love and tickets to a Chigo Cubs game. I found the e of Cubs tickets to be an odd vehicle for a gay-to-straight nversn.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Pl, watchg a baseball game is seeg a group of young, good-lookg, well-veloped athlet their prime sweat and move for three hours; hard to see how that would make a gay man sudnly sire women. David Benham and his tw brother Jason thk that all tak to nvert a gay guy is a trip to a ballgame.

Bee Wrigley Field ss jt a uple of blocks om Chigo’s Boystown neighborhood and this was the early 2000s, was evable that the crosstown smack talk volved to homophobia. Outsi of the Whe Sox’s home park durg this era, there was an pecially popular entry the genre that read, “Wrigley Field: World’s Largt Gay Bar.

Wrigley is the world’s largt gay bar? Eventually, I even saw the World’s Largt Gay Bar shirts outsi of Miller Park Milwkee. Great, now the homophobia was anchisg.

CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS

Their fans were also gay and beg gay was somethg lser. For the most part, while there are still plenty of obnox shirts beg sold outsi of Wrigley, the outright homophobic on are pretty much gone. I wear purple on Spir Day bee wasn’t that long ago that hundreds of people wore open homophobia whout a send thought.

-- Michael Sam is preparg to bee the first openly gay athlete the NFL and Jason Colls beme the first openly gay active NBA player Sunday by takg the floor for the Brooklyn Nets, but Major League Baseball has yet to employ an openly gay player. ”Others believe the issue won’t be newsworthy as more openly gay players step forward. ”Many players assume they’ve played wh gay players, but none has e out public or private.

BULLS REPORTEDLY AMONG THE TEAMS INTERTED FREE AGENT FORWARD RUDY GAY

Not only is Wrigley Field adjacent to Boystown, the gay center of Chigo, but the Cubs have a float the annual gay pri para. The Cubs have also been holdg a gay day event each year at Wrigley Field sce 2001, now lled Out at Wrigley, makg the longt-nng LGBT-themed day among the 30 Major League Baseball teams. Bill Gubd, the gay Chigoan who started Out at Wrigley and a lifelong Cubs fans, posted this vio on Facebook Sunday honor of his dad, who died 2012 and never saw his team w a World Seri.