Gay Burke | [Walker Evans] | The Metropolan Mm of Art

Contents:

• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• GAY BURKE
• GAY BURKE

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY

Gay Burke | [Walker Evans] | The Metropolan Mm of Art. Gay Burke (Amerin, Dallas, Texas 1946–2017 Tloosa, Alabama).

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Burke, a promisg prospect for the Los Angel Dodgers the 1970s, was gay and alt wh discrimatn throughout his reer. A group of softball players and other gay iends om the Castro arrived one day, each rryg vered dish for a potluck dner.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

After a few natnal sportswrers disvered Glenn was dyg of AIDS and wrote about what had bee of the man who vented the high-five and had been the first Major League baseball player to e out as gay, letters began arrivg Lutha’s mailbox and at the Oakland Colism. There were letters om parents who praised Glenn’s kdns to their kids, letters om adults who had met Glenn as children, and letters om gay men who admired his sacrific as a pneer. He was proud to have bted stereotyp, provg that a gay man uld play major league baseball.

But as much as the renciliatn meant for her fay, she unrstood the moment would only have te transformatnal power if “other ltle boys” the future had the chance to live out their Major League dreams whout fear of reprisal if they were gay. Inspirg a new generatn of gay athlet would be one of two important measur of Burke’s for Glenn Burke’s other lastg ntributn to the world, his ventn of the high five?

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The Whe Horse was the olst gay bar the Bay Area, tablished 1933.

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And on this sprg day 2017, people gathered there to celebrate Glenn’s addn to the Rabow Honor Walk, a seri of bronze panels, embedd siwalks traversg the Castro District, regnizg some of the most signifint lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr figur history. Stretchg down Castro and Market Streets, the plaqu pay homage to the lik of astront Sally Ri; artist Frida Kahlo; wrers Jam Baldw, Tennsee Williams, and Virgia Woolf; mathematician Alan Turg; dis star Sylvter Jam; civil rights lears Bayard Rt and Barbara Jordan; and Queen lead sger Freddie announcg the newt honoree, Honor Walk -founr David Perry told the crowd at the Whe Horse that gay hero and hero n be found all around, he said, at home Andrew Maraniss on Twter: @tblu24.