‘Dale, we know you’re gay.’ How a Major League Baseball umpire me out - Outsports

Contents:

• ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
• DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM
• OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE, DALE STT, ANNOUNC RELEASE OF AUTOBGRAPHY
• GAY MLB UMPIRE TALKS NEW BOOK, D.C. PRI NIGHT OUT APPEARANCE
• GAY MLB UMPIRE DALE STT SPIR 17-YEAR-OLD TO PURSUE HIS DREAM
• UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY
• MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
• MLB UMPIRE DALE STT COM OUT AS GAY
• A LONGTIME UMPIRE SAYS HE IS GAY

‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT

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.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’

For one thg, they had a stereotypil ia their md of what a gay person is like.

DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER

There were a hundred thgs sayg, Dale’s gay.

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

“Dale Stt recently beme the first Major League umpire to e out as gay.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME 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.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM

Are there gay umpir workg Major League Baseball right now? Are there gay players?

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.

OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE, DALE STT, ANNOUNC RELEASE OF AUTOBGRAPHY

Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door. Bee I want to be known not as “that gay umpire” but, stead, jt as an umpire who happens to be gay.

GAY MLB UMPIRE TALKS NEW BOOK, D.C. PRI NIGHT OUT APPEARANCE

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?

GAY MLB UMPIRE DALE STT SPIR 17-YEAR-OLD TO PURSUE HIS DREAM

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! But you know gays, we love to make an ex (lghs). “The Umpire is Out” is many thgs: a retrospective of a 33-year major league reer, a reposory of numerable personal triumphs and on-field clash, and a unique perspective of what ’s like to e out as gay while still active Major League Baseball.

But jt as importantly, that se is jt as big the very next chapter when Stt reunts walkg to a Portland gay bar jt after movg out of his parents’ hoe and beg smten on first sight wh the man who would eventually bee his hband. The narrativ of Stt’s reer as a big league umpire and his life as a gay man keepg a secret om his workplace n parallel throughout the book.

UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY

For example, Stt vot a chapter to his profsnal stggl durg his sophomore MLB season and how they shook his nfince to the re. His tale of meetg wh a 17-year-old closeted umpire and spirg him to e out is so upliftg, feels straight out of a gay WP Ksella novel. Stt’s gracns at realizg he had bee an advertent role mol for gay sports fans and officials everywhere is so genue, mak you want to reply wh a hug emoji at the end of the chapter.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’

Today, we’re revisg December 2014, and the public acknowledgement by our iend, MLB umpire Dale Stt, that he was a married gay man, as reported by -founr Jim Buzski.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT COM OUT AS GAY

MLB umpire Dale Stt out as gay quiett way possible. He is gay and married to his partner of 28 years.

Yet is unrstandably the one that most people will notice, bee Stt is the first Major League Baseball umpire to publicly say he is gay while active (and the first out active male official the NBA, NHL, NFL or MLB). One Outsports rear, an active NCAA Divisn I baseball umpire who is gay but do not want his name ed, did notice and he sent this email: “Fantastic! He wasn’t seekg attentn for beg gay and was also worried that would e a distractn jt as baseball’s postseason was startg.

A LONGTIME UMPIRE SAYS HE IS GAY

Stt is a classic example of someone who is openly gay wh his workplace and social circle but, until now, not publicly out. “The first 10 years of my Major League umpire reer, I would have been horrified if a story had e out that I was gay, ” he said.

The two met on a Monday night October 1986 at CC Slghters, a gay bar Portland.

One day I jt said to myself: ‘I get , you’re gay. I unrstood that there was a game that had to be played the game of life as a gay man 1979, but I also unrstood who I was and what I was and wasn’t like some long-drawn out procs. Stt says that addn to never havg a negative exchange wh anyone the umpirg ranks over beg gay, he believ he has changed some mds.