T.J. Hoe, former MLB pcher, out as gay: "Love has fally set me ee" - CBS News

Contents:

• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLET, HOT BASEBALL PLAYERSGAY BASEBALL PLAYERS LIST: MLB AND MOR LEAGUERS
• FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
• FORMER MLB PLAYER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY: 'I'M FALLY HEALG'
• ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
• MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAYSHARHARE-SQUARE-170319MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAY
• T.J. HOE, FORMER MLB PCHER, OUT AS GAY: "LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME EE"
• FORMER MLB PCHER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT: 'LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME FREE'
• TJ HOE BE 3RD OUT GAY FORMER MLB PLAYER
• GAY FORMER BALLPLAYER'S NEW JOB IS TO MAKE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LGBT-FRIENDLY
• WHY HAVE THE DODGERS BEEN SO SLOW TO HONOR GLENN BURKE, MLB’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER?
• FORMER PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY & ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT
• NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball. The prsure toward acceptg pri players baseball may be why homosexual players who e out as gay before or after retirement have a short reer.

Moreover, Santan ma headl after g out as gay ont of his mother and teammat while filmg This Is Life, a TLC documentary 2017. Later, terviewg wh SB natn outsports, he mentns hearg anti-gay slurs by teammat the locker room or gam felt like havg a knife the heart. Moreover, he later beme the first major league affiliated player and send active profsnal baseball player to e out as gay publicly.

HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT

Sce 2016, no homophobic slur has been chanted for the first time, and looks like MLB is dog s bt to change the perspective toward homosexual players. Here's a list of those the profsnal and llege baseball world proud enough to wear a rabow p wh their pstrip and e out as gay.

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

An outfielr for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland A's between 1976 and 1979, Glenn Burke beme the first Major League Baseball player to e out as gay to teammat and owners while still active, though the team asked that he keep his sexualy secret om the public and he plied. @billybeanballThe only livg Major League Baseball veteran who has e out as gay, outfielr Billy Bean played for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padr over a reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995. He me out four years after retirg om the field, and wrote his 2003 book Gog the Other Way: Lsons From a Life and Out of Major League Baseball that the bullyg and homophobic world of baseball led him to walk away om pro ball.

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

@_DavidD_41A first baseman for the Helena Brewers, rhe Milwkee Brewers' rookie affiliate team Montana, David Denson 2015 beme the first player affiliated wh Major League Baseball to e out as gay. @DunngtonTylerA pcher for rookie and Class A teams affiliated wh the Cardals 2014, Dunngton told Outsports he left pro ball bee of homophobia.

"I experienced both ach and players make remarks on killg gay people durg my time baseball, and each ment felt like a knife to my heart, " he said. Durg an 11-year mor league reer, John Dillger would vis bear gathergs on the road but kept his gay sexualy secret up until his retirement 2005. @tampaMarkJWhen Mark Johnson and teammat won a champnship for the Universy of Tampa 1998, he still was nial about his gay sexualy, he told Outsports, but he beme more nfint over his adult life.

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When Tyson Lk, director of baseball operatns at the Universy of South Carola, cid on Natnal Comg Out Day 2016 to publicly reveal he was gay, he beme the first person Divisn I llege baseball to ever e out as LGBT. An umpire for Major League Baseball most notable for a rather famo row wh Pete Rose, Dave Pallone would eventually be ducted to the first class of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame.

As the MLB ntu embracg the LGBTQ muny, the players have also taken steps towards clivens wh Chigo Whe Sox pcher, Anrson Comás, g out as openly gay.

FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY

Although Anrson Comás is only the send openly gay MLB player to e out while actively wh an anizatn, the Chigo Whe Sox, he is far om the first openly gay player to play profsnal baseball. Former Los Angel Dodgers outfielr Glenn Burke was the first MLB player to e out as gay, however, he did so followg his retirement. The former Detro Tigers outfielr me out as gay 1999, beg the send former MLB player to do so, followg the footsteps of Glenn Burke.

"Former Player of The Day - Billy Bean - Outfielr, #Padr #Tigers #Dodgers #PlayerOfTheDay" - @GayBaseballFanIt has been a long road, but thanks to pneers such as Glenn Burke, Billy Bean, David Denson, and Anrson Comás, baseball is beg a more welg place for everyone. 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. In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean.

FORMER MLB PLAYER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY: 'I'M FALLY HEALG'

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.

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

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. Yet 's Ruby's hidn part of his inty that he now believ n have the biggt impact, partially bee 's so foreign to the worlds of baseball and untry is a gay man, the only active profsnal baseball player at any level to be publicly out.

" FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salari and payrolls for every major league teamHis g out follows a summer which Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib and Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop also me out as gay. “As a untry mic songwrer, at first I thought beg gay was a huge weakns, ” said Ruby, who will be showsed the upg documentary, "Out Nashville. "It's not all super rosy, " Ruby ach om past generatns have been subtly homophobic, urgg him to keep his sexual orientatn a secret or to be wh a woman to keep up a ont.

Gehrig Richs, the Volno' assistant ach, said he imag teammat beg protective of Ruby if gay slurs were to persist once he's out publicly. Let’s add the followg to our list of gay baseballers:Jason Burch, pcher for mor league teams (Johnson Cy Cardals, Peoria Chiefs, GCL Orl, New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and more): He me out this year an terview wh ’s what he says about playg the mor leagu: “Anyone who has played wh me and has been the bullpen wh me knows I’m not aaid to talk about sex or gay rights or femism or anythg that some people might nsir amic. That feelg of beg relied upon, that people mt turn to you as a closer to make thgs right, to have that role – and to have people have that feelg about me that role – as a gay man, I thk that would have been a powerful msage.

MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAYSHARHARE-SQUARE-170319MOR LEAGUER SOLOMON BAT OUT AS GAY

John tells more about beg a gay baseballer and has some words of advice to about g out to athlet who are planng to (via): “Playg 162 gam a year, you spend a lot of time wh your teammat.

That’s a really gay photo we published our origal post below but let’s talk about gay profsnal baseball players, shall we? First let’s start wh gay baseball player mors like this one om the New York Daily News: “Athlete is a Swch Hter: Which baseball heartthrob may be playg for the other team? By some, we mean actually jt two of them: William Daro “Billy” Bean who played for the Detro Tigers, the Los Angel Dodgers, and the San Diego Padr durg a major league reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995 and Glenn Burke who played for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland has earned the distctn as the first, and so far the only, baseball star (and maybe the only one team sports) to acknowledge his homosexualy while still playg is reported to have ma this awome statement which every gay man sports should take to heart: “They n’t ever say now that a gay man n’t play the majors, bee I’m a gay man and I ma .

T.J. HOE, FORMER MLB PCHER, OUT AS GAY: "LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME EE"

”If you want to know more about Glenn Burke, you should check out his tobgraphy, Out at Home: The Glenn Burke Bean is the send Major League Baseball athlete to have e out as a gay man. His g out story 1999 or four years after he retired om baseball ma to the ont page of The New York Burke, Billy also wrote a book about his life as a gay ball player entled Gog the Other Way: Lsons om a life and out of Major League is he dog now? An old photo of baseball stars Derek “Boner” Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Alex Gonzalez, Rey Ordonez, and Edgar Renteria lookg like they’re a gay bathhoe or should have clud the Speedo wearg Gabe Kapler, don’t you thk?

FORMER MLB PCHER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT: 'LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME FREE'

"This is a great day for the league and baseball, " Bean told Outsports about Hoe's told Outsports the prospect of beg only the third out MLB player was dntg, pecially after he heard what others say about gay people.

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

TJ HOE BE 3RD OUT GAY FORMER MLB PLAYER

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

GAY FORMER BALLPLAYER'S NEW JOB IS TO MAKE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LGBT-FRIENDLY

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

WHY HAVE THE DODGERS BEEN SO SLOW TO HONOR GLENN BURKE, MLB’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER?

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Hoe me out as gay and announced his engagement to his partner, Ryan Nezel, an emotnal social media post, who pched for the Cleveland Indians and the Toronto Blue Jays om 2014 to 2017, said he lived out his childhood dream of playg profsnal baseball Cleveland at 23, but that he ed as a “dg” to “numb what was really gog on si.

Hoe celebrated the passage of the Rpect for Marriage Act by sharg his te self wh his former Major League Baseball player me out as gay a poignant Facebook post on Thursday. 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. I heard om police officers, firemen, members of the ary, mothers, fathers, om those who were straight, gay, bi, out, closeted.

FORMER PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY & ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT

Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door. 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? Augt 10th, 2022SAN DIEGO -- Former Giants Mor League pcher Solomon Bat me out publicly as gay an Instagram post on Tuday, also announcg that he had been released by the anizatn.

”Bat is the send Mor League player to e out as gay, jog former Brewers farmhand David Denson, who beme the first openly gay player affiliated baseball 2015.

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

No active Major League player has e out as gay, though Billy Bean, who now works as MLB’s senr vice print for diversy, equy and cln, and Glenn Burke both me out after their playg reers end. Hoe, a pcher who played for the Cleveland Guardians and the Toronto Blue Jays the 2014-2017 seasons, is only the third MLB player to e out as gay publicly.

December 12, 2022 — Athlete Ally rpond today to news that former Cleveland Guardians and Toronto Blue Jays pcher TJ Hoe has e out as gay, makg him the third-ever former Major League Baseball player to do so. Hoe, who jos fellow out gay former MLB players Billy Bean and Glenn Burke, me out through an emotnal Facebook post scribg his journey as a closeted pro athlete, the cril importance of the recently-passed Rpect for Marriage Act, and his engagement to his fiancé Ryan Nezel. “To be the third MLB player the history of the sport to e out says volum both about TJ’s urage and how much work is still need to make baseball a welg and clive space for gay and bisexual ball players, ” said Hudson Taylor, Founr and Executive Director of Athlete Ally.

In a statement to Outsports, out gay former MLB player and MLB senr Vice Print of DEI Billy Bean said: “This is a great day for the league and baseball. Twenty years after he left Major League Baseball and 14 years after g out as gay, Billy Bean was recently back a uniform, workg out wh the Mets Port St. He showered and sued up the Mets clubhoe, stretched and warmed up wh the team, threw battg practice and played tch wh the outfielrs, and was able to talk to players about his own experience as a closeted gay man profsnal followg the vis, Mets send baseman Daniel Murphy told a reporter he “disagreed wh the fact that Billy is a homosexual.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Bean didn’t have faial or social systems of support, and he certaly wasn’t gog to e out to his years, Bean had hoped that not actg on his sir would mean he was not gay. He feels a need to show the men a “nsistent, relatable image” of one gay man, and believ ’s possible that for many of the players, this is the first nversatn they’ve knowgly had wh an LGBT relled that durg his vis to the Cleveland Indians’ sprg trag mp Goodyear, Arizona, first baseman Nick Swisher approached him and said, “I thk you’re effg brave.