Longtime MLB umpire Dale Stt has e out as gay, beg the first umpire to do so while on active duty.
Contents:
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
- NEYER: A CHAT WH DAVE PALLONE, BASEBALL’S FIRST GAY UMPIRE
- MLB'S FIRST GAY UMPIRE IGNORED ON OPENG DAY AND THAT'S HOW SHOULD BE
- DALE STT BE FIRST ACTIVE MLB UMPIRE TO E OUT AS GAY
- THE MLB NOW HAS S FIRST GAY UMPIRE
- MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
- UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY
- OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE, DALE STT, ANNOUNC RELEASE OF AUTOBGRAPHY
- DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. He’s sce retired after umpirg for 32 years the majors. * the first gay umpire *
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.
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world. * the first gay umpire *
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).
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.
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM
* the first gay umpire *
Dale, we know you’re gay.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
A veteran umpire has announced that he is gay -- the first umpire the MLB, and the first male official all four major leagu, to do so publicly * the first gay umpire *
For one thg, they had a stereotypil ia their md of what a gay person is like.
There were a hundred thgs sayg, Dale’s gay. “Dale Stt recently beme the first Major League umpire to e out as gay.
NEYER: A CHAT WH DAVE PALLONE, BASEBALL’S FIRST GAY UMPIRE
Veteran Major League Baseball umpire Dale Stt revealed an terview that he is gay and married to his partner of 28 years. * the first gay umpire *
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. Are there gay umpir workg Major League Baseball right now?
MLB'S FIRST GAY UMPIRE IGNORED ON OPENG DAY AND THAT'S HOW SHOULD BE
In reuntg how he me out as gay while still an active MLB umpire, Dale Stt is easy to root for. * the first gay umpire *
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.
DALE STT BE FIRST ACTIVE MLB UMPIRE TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * the first gay umpire *
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.
THE MLB NOW HAS S FIRST GAY UMPIRE
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * the first gay umpire *
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? Jt a few months earlier December 2014, a story on Outsports, Stt had discsed for the first time beg an openly gay umpire, the first the sport’s history. "I didn't really thk about this or expect this, ” Stt told Outsports this week, “but when I walked onto the field for the first time sprg trag and throughout the season [as an openly gay man], there were tim when I thought there was a burn lifted off of my shoulrs and that I'm totally a ee man now.
He is leavg wh no regrets and is pecially glad that he cid to e out publicly as gay before retirg. His boss at MLB and fellow umpir knew he was gay for years and never negatively affected his reer. But by gog public, he was able to spire others, both and out of baseball, who never would have known that MLB had a gay umpire and that was a non-issue.
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
One person who reached out was an assistant traer for an MLB team who is gay but not out to his team.
UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY
“I don't thk the first thg fans are thkg is that's the gay guy that ma that ll.
OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE, DALE STT, ANNOUNC RELEASE OF AUTOBGRAPHY
Any mentns the media of him beg gay were always ntext. "Bob Costas mentned was Pri night and mentned nonchalantly, 'Oh by the way, the home plate umpire is Dale Stt, a veteran umpire who me out as gay December.
DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER
Billy Bean, a former player who is gay, was named the league’s first Ambassador for Incln and was given greater rponsibili this season.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
“Before, if 40, 000 fans would have Googled me and found out I was the gay guy, that would have horrified me, ” he said. 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 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).
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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. 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.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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.
We were the locker room and he was tellg a story about someone and he ed the term ‘that’s so gay. The last thg I want is people screamg at me bee I’m gay.