MLB umpire Dale Stt: ‘I wasn’t timidated by threats to out me as gay’

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’

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. * 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. “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?

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY

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. Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door.

DALE STT BE FIRST ACTIVE MLB UMPIRE TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

Dale Stt be first active MLB umpire to e out as gay

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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