A day after the Dodgers fally embraced the memory of Glenn Burke — Major League Baseball’s first gay player — a group of Rays players unrcut their team’s Pri Night.
Contents:
- ARE THEY NOW THE TAMPA BAY GAY PRI RAYS?
- JACK FLAHERTY RIPS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR GAY PRI PATCH
- ESPN HOST SARAH SPA CALLS RAYS PLAYERS ‘BIGOTS’ FOR NOT WEARG GAY PRI PATCH
- GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
- SOME TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR A PRI RABOW, SAY THEY REJECT GAY ‘BEHAVR’
ARE THEY NOW THE TAMPA BAY GAY PRI RAYS?
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Cardals pcher Jack Flaherty shared his thoughts on Twter after Rays pchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jefey Sprgs, and Ryan Thompson refed to wear the gay pri logo on their uniforms, sayg was a “fah-based cisn. “First and foremost, I thk the anizatn has done a really good thg to have Pri Night’s supportg our gay muny to e out and have a nice night at the ballpark, ” Cash told reporters, per the Associated Prs.
“First and foremost, I thk the anizatn has done a really good thg to have Pri Night’s supportg our gay muny to e out and have a nice night at the ballpark, ” Cash said. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOn BaseballAn Attempt at Incln Prov There Is More Work to DoA day after the Dodgers fally embraced the memory of Glenn Burke — Major League Baseball’s first gay player — a group of Rays players unrcut their team’s Pri Aguilar/Getty ImagSomethg was missg the top of the eighth ng on Saturday at Tropina Field St. Words like “liftyle” and “behavr” are wily known trop often terpreted as a pole ver for nmng gay Rays held their promotn the day after the Dodgers had honored the memory of Glenn Burke, a former outfielr for the team who was the first major leaguer to have e out as gay, at the team’s LGBTQ+ Pri Night Los Angel.
In 2016, after the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., the anizatn cut ticket pric for Pri Night and raised $300, 000 for a victims’ month, the Rays joed wh the Yanke to vote their social media feeds for one game entirely to facts about gun vlence the Uned Stat, rather than any rmatn about the game.
JACK FLAHERTY RIPS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR GAY PRI PATCH
"CARDINALS PITCHER JACK FLAHERTY BLASTS RAYS PLAYERS WHO OPTED OUT OF WEARING PRIDE LOGO"I never once said I thought gay people weren’t born gay, " Anrson ntued.
"Or that homophobia was right. "Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos ntributed to this report Joe Man is a Sports Reporter for Fox News. The five Tampa Bay Rays players who refed to wear the gay pri logo on their uniforms bee of their relig beliefs are “bigots, ” says ESPN mentator Sarah Spa.
MLB, like major rporate brands the untry, are engagg Pri Month only to show crics they are not anti-gay. An openly gay profsnal baseball player is speakg out followg the cisn ma by a number of Tampa Bay Rays players not to wear rabow-lored logos on their uniforms for “Pri Night” support of the LGBTQ+ muny.
ESPN HOST SARAH SPA CALLS RAYS PLAYERS ‘BIGOTS’ FOR NOT WEARG GAY PRI PATCH
Bryan Ruby, an athlete and mician who me out publicly as gay last year, recently told USA Today that the behavr exhibed “sends a very clear msage” that “LGBTQ people are not wele here. “A lot of guys jt don’t get that they’ve always had, and will ntue to have, gay teammat. It’s hard enough to be gay baseball, ” Ruby said.
GAY BASEBALL PRO BRYAN RUBY ADDRS RAYS PLAYERS’ REFAL TO WEAR PRI PATCH
“First and foremost, I thk the anizatn has done a really good thg to have Pri Nights supportg our gay muny to e out and have a nice night at the ballpark, ” Cash said postgame via ESPN. LaBarge believ givg players the choice to opt out "beme a distractn this year, " bee "took attentn away om what gay pri is, or jt pri general, and refoced thgs on the team.
SOME TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR A PRI RABOW, SAY THEY REJECT GAY ‘BEHAVR’
Yet a number of players on the team refed to wear the rabow or monstrate support for the muny, wh a spokperson sayg they did so based on relig objectns to homosexualy. The statement is chock full of ridiculons, namely: Hidg behd a Christian fah that at s te re actually valu clivy and rejects judgment; Denyg the Pri rabow says very clearly LGBTQ people are not wele; Beg gay is not a ‘liftyle’; And the ia that this cisn is not ‘judgmental’ or that the men are ‘not lookg down’ at LGBTQ people is plete and utter bullsh.
Unfortunately, the Rays management approached this differently, allowg homophobia amongst a handful of 20-somethgs to drive the uniforms that some of the players wore. Bee of club management’s utter failure, and the players allowg their homophobia to dictate their actns, stead of talkg about the strong LGBTQ support that exists Major League Baseball and wh the Rays’ anizatn, all anyone is talkg about om that game is the players who don’t want to support gay “behavr. Do that mean that every sgle player and ach on the teams has renciled their church’s possible doctre wh homosexualy?
What should lead to is more open, hont dialogue wh clubho and buildg an environment where people n have disagreements, but where everyone rolls out the red rpet to wele people whether they are Christian, gay, Black, trans, a ary veteran or anyone else.