The former Dodger outfielr sat down wh TODAY's Bryant Gumbel to discs his cisn to e out as gay on Sept. 13, 1982, three years after he retired om the MLB.
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- GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT
- GLENN BURKE, MLB'S 1ST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, SPOKE TO TODAY'S BRYANT GUMBEL 1982
GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT
The former Dodger outfielr sat down wh TODAY's Bryant Gumbel to discs his cisn to e out as gay on Sept. 13, 1982, three years after he retired om the MLB. * is bryant gumble gay *
The ex-Dodger outfielr spoke to TODAY’s Bryant Gumbel 1982 about his cisn to publicly e out as gay after retirg om 28, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC / Updated July 3, 2022, 6:26 PM UTC / Source: TODAYNearly forty years ago, Glenn Burke ma the momento cisn to e out publicly as gay — makg him the first Major League Baseball player to do so.
GLENN BURKE, MLB'S 1ST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, SPOKE TO TODAY'S BRYANT GUMBEL 1982
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” Burke sat down wh Gumbel the same day that the now-funct Insi Sports magaze published his g-out story, “The Double Life of a Gay Dodger. “Were you trad om the Dodgers to the A’s bee you were gay? I thought if I jt kept to myself for a while until I was ready to tell them that they might unrstand if they got to like me first stead of what I’d done, you know, sexually or somethg like BurkeAfter clg a bribe to marry a woman by the Dodgers’ general manager Al Campanis, Maraniss said, the team trad him to Oakland, where he faced homophobia om teammat and fans; he rarely played at all before beg sent to the mors Utah.
Burke told Gumbel that he gused people baseball knew he was gay om hearsay.