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Contents:

• METS WELE OPENLY GAY BILLY BEAN TO SPRG TRAG
• GAY BASEBALL EXEC ERIK BRAVERMAN AND JONATHAN COTTRELL GET MARRIED AT DODGER STADIUM
• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
• MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PROACTIVELY RECG GAY EXECUTIV FOR TEAM ONT OFFIC
• BILLY BEAN MLB, GAY, BOYIEND, AGE, NET WORTH, TODAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• BILLIE JEAN KG, PART OWNER OF THE DODGERS, WANTS A GAY BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO PLAYER, SEAN CONROY, GETS SHUTOUT HISTORIC START
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS

METS WELE OPENLY GAY BILLY BEAN TO SPRG TRAG

In an article Tuday on, Los Angel Dodgers vice print of marketg and broadstg Erik Braverman me out to the baseball world, beg the hight-rankg openly gay executive Major League Braverman, who me out to his parents over two s ago at the age of 23 and has been openly gay his personal life sce, the time was right. "When I started wh the Dodgers 2009, I did not want to be known as the openly gay baseball executive.

'"Subsequent to Braverman's announcement, Dodgers -owner Magic Johnson, who himself has an openly gay son, posted two tweets support of Braverman, one of which read, "We, the ‪@Dodgers owners are so imprsed wh our top notch executive, ‪@ErikBraverman as he his platform to spire others! "Tweet om @MagicJohnson: I am proud of and support my iend @Dodgers exec, Erik Braverman as he announc to the world that he is gay. "Braverman played baseball high school and junr llege, and took his skills at shortstop to gay sports leagu as a way of mergg his inty as a gay man wh his inty as an athlete.

He is a regular on the lol and natnal gay softball circu, and won eight gay softball world champnships wh the L. Still, Braverman hop that someday, gay players, executiv and umpir n e out whout the suatn -- or their perceived differenc -- beg newsworthy. Kev McClatchy, the owner and CEO of the Pirat om 1996 to 2007, revealed '12 that he is gay.

GAY BASEBALL EXEC ERIK BRAVERMAN AND JONATHAN COTTRELL GET MARRIED AT DODGER STADIUM

"I look forward to the day when beg gay is jt a part of who they are, " Braverman says, "but isn't a headle. Daniel Murphy ma some ments Tuday about Billy Bean, an openly gay Major League Baseball executive who spent the day wh the New York Mets at sprg trag Port St. Bean, the league's first ambassador of cln, is gog om mp to mp providg guidance and trag for players and others orr to support those the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.

I don't thk the fact that someone is a homosexual should pletely shut the door on vtg them a relatnal aspect.

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

While there may be a perceptn that Christian athlet may not be acceptg of gay players, Murphy says that is not the se.

"Maybe, as a Christian, that we haven't been as articulate enough scribg what our actual stance is on homosexualy, " he said. A player the 1970s, Burke opened up about beg homosexual after his reer end, but he lived and died wh a ep sadns om havg to hi who he was. In stagg their nth annual LGBTQ+ Pri Night, they will celebrate their former outfielr — and the first major leaguer to have e out as gay — on Friday durg their seri wh the closg the circle 44 years later.

Lasorda Jr., who was known by many as Spunky, was also gay and died of AIDS plitns 1991, though his father publicly nied his son’s sexualy and the e of his ath.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PROACTIVELY RECG GAY EXECUTIV FOR TEAM ONT OFFIC

One teammate, Clll Washgton, said Mart troduced Burke to the team wh a homophobic slur. Bean, also a former Dodgers outfielr, was the send — and still the only other — ex-big-leaguer to e out as gay. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Dodgers Offer a Belated Embrace To a Player Shunned for Beg Gay.

As the only known out gay broadster profsnal baseball, Eric Bach is blazg a trail for LGBTQ sports media figur the summer game. Over the long grd of a mor league season, dog his job every day as the only gay man wh the team has led to moments of tense self-nscns and ocsnal exhstn.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people.

BILLY BEAN MLB, GAY, BOYIEND, AGE, NET WORTH, TODAY

However, Bach also admted that he’s unsure how many players the Natnals clubhoe know that he’s gay and that’s exacerbated his feelgs of self-nscns. While has been a stggle at tim and spe there beg no other out gay announcers baseball, Bach remas rolute to break through the glass ceilg and reprent the LGBTQ muny at the hight level of broadstg. Lewis knew some of the gay and lbian atten at that first summ and felt a tge of disappotment that the ra of pro sports ma them feel unfortable sharg that piece of themselv up ont.

The msage: Baseball wants openly gay people team ont offic, and the teams aren't shyg away om .

Over the last six months MLB's ambassador for cln, openly gay former player Billy Bean, has worked wh Lewis to build a more proactive program of LGBT outreach. One of Schulte's most wele surpris has been a small but growg work of out gay MLB team executiv who are quickly alcg to a very rmal support group, each of them boastg strong support om their own teams. While the three men -- Reed, Bar and Schulte -- are the only men to talk publicly about beg gay wh a Major League Baseball team ont office (Lra Ricketts, part owner of the Chigo Cubs, is an out lbian), they have all nnected wh other current and potential future employe.

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

In his high-profile diversy role wh MLB, he has bee the hub of a once-actured gay muny si baseball that is now alcg around MLB's very public embrace. Published on November 02, 2018The former General Manager and the current vice-print of Major League Baseball (MLB), Billy Bean who me out publicly as a gay 1999, has creded the LGBT muny by velopg the strategi support to the gay rights and honor. Leavg behd the reer as MLB player, he has stood up as the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics and then the vice print and the assistant to missner Rob Maned wh many former General Manager and the current vice-print of Major League Baseball (MLB), Billy Bean who me out publicly as a gay 1999, has creded the LGBT muny by velopg the strategi support to the gay rights and honor.

Leavg behd the reer as MLB player, he has stood up as the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics and then the vice print and the assistant to missner Rob Maned wh many Bean's Stggle As GayAs beg an ambassador of the baseball, Billy says that he wants to be the great role mol for the young athlet who are still the closet. Billy Bean me out publicly as gay 1999 after his parture, but he still regrets the year of 90's, when he rigned om his baseball reer rather than tellg the people that he was said that the double life he led was jt an exhstg one. Billy, who was among the first gay pro baseball players to go public, disclosed 2014 that he was gratified to be one of the first people and is happy of what his life was prented to Bean wh his former -player om Mnota Tws (Photo: CBS Baltimore) The 56-year-old manager was married to the woman.

He lost a partner but didn't share his loss wh anyone and bottled his feelgs to an emotnal vio shared on YouTube, Billy mentned that he realized what means to live openly and the obstacl that the gay and the lbian muny are nonted wh as he was not able to save his Do Billy Bean Accumulate Net Worth? 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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G 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.

”Ruby told his fay and close iends he was gay four years ago, then his teammat this summer. "When Bryan told me he was gay I was shocked actually, " Lren Ruby said of the revelatn when Bryan was 21. "I grew up a culture where homosexualy was taboo, " Jon, a baseball ach at Friends' Central High School Philalphia, said.

BILLIE JEAN KG, PART OWNER OF THE DODGERS, WANTS A GAY BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT

Bean played the major leagu as an outfielr for nearly a and me out as gay himself after his retirement the 1990s. "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.

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. 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.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME 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.

Two years later, he told Insi Sports that he believed he'd been let go om the Dodgers bee he was gay. He beme one of few proment gay athlet of the era after that, playg the Gay Gam 1982 and 1986. "They n't ever say now that a gay man n't play the majors, bee I'm a gay man and I ma , " he told The Philalphia Inquirer.

@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. "Beg gay don't change anythg about the way I play or teract wh teammat, " he said a team statement released for Pri Month.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E 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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

"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.

AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT

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. 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO PLAYER, SEAN CONROY, GETS SHUTOUT HISTORIC START

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. He later wrote his 1990 memoir Behd the Mask: My Double Life Baseball that he believed he was fired bee he was gay. A Major League Baseball umpire om 1986 to 1999, Dale Stt me out as gay to Referee Magaze 2014.

She’s also a mory owner wh Ilana Kloss of the Los Angel Dodgers, which mak her ments on havg an out gay baseball player relevant. “It do bother me, ” that there are no openly gay players Major League Baseball, Kg said an terview wh Phillip Zonkel of QVoiceNews. Kg, 75, said one reason gay players stay closeted is that “nobody feels safe to e out.

GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS

This season, Gee Sprger of the Hoton Astros was punished for g a gay slur durg a game. Last season, three players had to apologize for anti-gay ments, some several years old, which surfaced on their Twter feeds. So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball.