In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. He’s sce retired after umpirg for 32 years the majors.
Contents:
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
- DALE STT BE FIRST ACTIVE MLB UMPIRE TO E OUT AS GAY
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
* first umpire to come out as gay *
In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. Stt was ducted to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame 2015 and has sce wrten a memoir about his reer.
On the rponse he’s gotten om the gay muny after umpirg the majors for more than three s and penng a memoir “The Umpire is Out: Callg the Game and Livg My Te Self”: SCOTT: The people I’ve talked to on this book tour, tellg me my story changed their life, my story gave them the urage to do this, or … this one lbian uple San Francis, she was, I gave her a big hug bee she said, “You don’t know how much hearg about you a game I love …” and that kd of stuff.
And you were gay and you were out!
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world. * first umpire to come out as gay *
But you know gays, we love to make an ex (lghs). Stt me out as gay 2014. The first time any of my lleagu said anythg to me about beg gay was durg sprg trag ’98 or ’99.
Dale, we know you’re gay. For one thg, they had a stereotypil ia their md of what a gay person is like. There were a hundred thgs sayg, Dale’s gay.
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
“Dale Stt recently beme the first Major League umpire to e out as gay. I told all three the same thg: I’m still gay.
Bs as ual, never heard anythg om the stands about beg gay. In a perfect world, everyone gay would e out and blow away the stereotyp and prenceived notns of who, what, and how many we are. Are there gay umpir workg Major League Baseball right now?
Are there gay players? I heard om police officers, firemen, members of the ary, mothers, fathers, om those who were straight, gay, bi, out, closeted. Of the hundreds of msag and ments, lerally two were hateful or homophobic.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door.
Bee I want to be known not as “that gay umpire” but, stead, jt as an umpire who happens to be gay. I wonred how thgs would have been different if I’d had an umpire to look up to, a role mol dog what I was strivg to do and who, oh by the way, happened to be gay? He me out as gay, the first MLB umpire to do so.
”He remas the only MLB umpire to e out publicly while on the job, although the book mak clear he’s not the only gay umpire Major League active player on an MLB roster has e out to the public – although there were two who did so after their reers end: The late Glenn Burke, and MLB vice print of social rponsibily and cln Billy Bean, who wrote the troductn to Stt’s book. ”Growg up Eugene, Oregon, Stt knew he was gay junr high school. I uldn’t jt make the rounds 1979 sayg: ‘Gus what, I’m gay.
DALE STT BE FIRST ACTIVE MLB UMPIRE TO E OUT AS GAY
“Even before I got to baseball, there was Dale, the happy-go-lucky, funny guy everybody knew, and Dale, who went to the only gay bar Eugene, Oregon, ” he but as a profsnal umpire – the mor leagu 1981 – cid wh the outbreak of Aids. He wr of losg a number of iends and acquatanc to the disease, and of hearg homophobic ments om fellow umpir.
Aids-related misrmatn was rampant – there were assumptns that all gay men had the disease, and that uld be spread by touchg shared objects. He feared that if lleagu learned he was gay, they would refe to work wh him any umpirg schle did have unexpected benefs when me to shieldg his inty though. He went to a gay bar his new hometown and met an artist named Michael Rsch.