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IS THERE ANY GAY SNOOKER PLAYERS?

None have e out answer is:Stephen Dale ∙ Lvl 2 ∙ 4mo agoCopyI thk Stephen Hendrey lik ab of ckThis answer is:Add your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: Is there any gay snooker players? Today, as the Los Angel Dodgers prepare to play the World Seri agast the Tampa Bay Rays, -founr Jim Buzski remds that the Dodgers anchise is a part of LGBTQ sports history as havg the only two MLB players who ever were public about beg gay. Dodgers have had Major League Baseball’s only 2 openly gay players.

In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean. Burke, while never publicly out wh the media while playg, did nothg to hi the fact to his teammat that he was gay.

Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team. ” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers — tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married. The Dodgers and their manager, Tom Lasorda, prented a versn of themselv as a clean-cut, All-Amerin team and a flamboyantly gay player uld not be tolerated, pecially one who hung out wh Lasorda’s gay son.

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(“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda. “Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay.

“My son wasn’t gay.

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His beg gay was known and players were reluctant to shower wh him. A former Burke teammate Clll Washgton rells that A’s Manager Billy Mart was openly homophobic:. Burke went on to settle San Francis and was a fixture on the gay scene there, even playg the Gay Gam softball.

While baseball is still wag for s first openly gay active MLB player, Bean’s elevatn to a posn of thory the missner’s office is a sign that thgs have changed sce the days when Glenn Burke was lled a faggot by his manager. Ne-time All-Ireland wner Valerie Mulhy will reveal how she alt wh her sexualy Donal Óg Cack's documentary to be aired next Cork footballer has bee the first high-profile female GAA star to e out publicly and do so to help others and to make other women, who are a siar suatn, to feel more fortable wh who they Óg Cack, the first openly gay GAA sports star, looks at attus towards homosexualy at home and abroad his documentary Comg Out Of The Curve which will be aired on Monday night on RTE, We take a look at other gay sports stars who took the cisn to go Og Cack (hurlg)The much-rated Rebel star is one of the greatt goalkeepers the game of hurlg has ever seen. He beme the first ele Irish sportsman to reveal he was gay his tobgraphy, 'Come What May', released last year.

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