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Contents:
- GAY DART PLAYERS?
- REFEREE HUW WARE ON BEG OPENLY GAY DARTS AND THE RABOW LAC MSAGE
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
GAY DART PLAYERS?
Huw Ware is ntemplatg why 's more mon for refere and umpir who are gay to be out their rpective sports when 's still so rare for players. * are there any gay darts players *
(I would put Barney but he would probably sue me)Gav gay my word never. (I would put Barney but he would probably sue me)Gav gay my word never ooh y big boy. Huw Ware is ntemplatg why 's more mon for refere and umpir who are gay to be out their rpective sports when 's still so rare for players.
In recent years, officials Nigel Owens and Joy Neville have been open about their sexualy gby unn; football ref Ryan Atk shared his story wh Sky Sports before the start of last season; ternatnal umpire Jamie Hooper is visible and vol on LGBT cln hockey; while across the pond, Major League Baseball's Dale Stt and the NBA's Bill Kennedy have both helped to raise awarens by speakg about their had already taken charge of a World Champnship fal at the age of jt 19 when he me out darts Febary 2014, wrg a blog to discs LGBT History Month and the ongog problem of homophobia sport.
" I happen to be the only openly gay male darts - that is only one part of my inty, but 's an important one.
REFEREE HUW WARE ON BEG OPENLY GAY DARTS AND THE RABOW LAC MSAGE
"It's jt a short piece, basilly tellg people that I was gay and my reasons for wrg about . I happen to be the only openly gay male darts - that is only one part of my inty, but 's an important one.
"Ware was 16 when he first told one of his sixth-form iends that he was gay - "we were the middle of a clean-up on Aberthaw Beach! Ware says the Rabow Lac msage is important raisg awarens of LGBT cln all sports, cludg darts "At the Summ, Stonewall's chief executive Ruth Hunt said 'this is not the gays takg over', which was a great le. 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.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
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.
THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
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. (“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.