Mike Piazza says he serv HOF, talks PEDs, gay mors book

Contents:

• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• METS LEGEND MIKE PIAZZA SPILLS ON CLEMENS, GAY MORS AND STEROIDS NEW MEMOIR
• MIKE PIAZZA SAYS HE SERV HOF, TALKS PEDS, GAY MORS BOOK

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’

And 2002, Piazza held a news nference to clare, “I’m not gay. ” In dog so, he ma many thk he is, fact, gay. In the June/July 2002 issue of Details magaze, then-New York Mets manager Bobby Valente said he believed baseball was ready for an openly gay player.

There is a persistent mor around town that one Mets star who spends a lot of time wh pretty mols clubs is actually gay and has started to thk about clarg his sexual orientatn. Amidst swirlg mors that the gay player is him, the next day New York Met tcher Mike Piazza held a prs nference to clare, “I’m not gay. ” And dog so ma many thk he is fact gay.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

He agreed wh Valente that baseball players, ne years ago, would accept a gay teammate:. Yet many people, particularly gay people, took offense.

Whether Piazza’s ments were supportive or not, the implitn to many was that beg lled gay was emed so bad that you had to clear up the mor. “He plays for the Mets” quickly beme shorthand for “he’s gay. ” And the Piazza-gay mors only tensified after the prs nference.

To this day, many thk Piazza is gay based exclively on that prs nference; One mastream sports Web se said 2004: “When we thk of gay athlet, the first one who to md is Mike Piazza, then there is Olympic gold medalist diver, Greg Louganis. “If I was gay, I’d be gay all the way.

METS LEGEND MIKE PIAZZA SPILLS ON CLEMENS, GAY MORS AND STEROIDS NEW MEMOIR

None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay.

In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.

MIKE PIAZZA SAYS HE SERV HOF, TALKS PEDS, GAY MORS BOOK

This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. In 2011, mors began swirlg that Selby was gay, or at least bi-cur. Curry however, is also known by some bee of the allegatns that he is gay.

His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage. The mors about him potentially beg gay have been gog on sce the early 2000s. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.