Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
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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. Dodgers have had Major League Baseball’s only 2 openly gay players. In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean.
Burke, while never publicly out wh the media while playg, did nothg to hi the fact to his teammat that he was gay.
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.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * dodgers are gay *
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. (“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda. “Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay.
“My son wasn’t gay. His beg gay was known and players were reluctant to shower wh him. A former Burke teammate Clll Washgton rells that A’s Manager Billy Mart was openly homophobic:.
Burke went on to settle San Francis and was a fixture on the gay scene there, even playg the Gay Gam softball. 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.
9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
So Bunch and two other young gay iends put on the habs and makp, journeyed to the streets of San Francis and, acrdg to Bunch, got an “amazg reactn everywhere we went. "The group's first fundraiser was a bgo night for gay Cuban refuge. Erik Braverman, senr vice print of marketg, munitns and broadstg, is gay and 2022 got married on the field at Dodger Stadium.
Billie Jean Kg, the legendary tennis player who is gay, has an ownership stake wh the team. So do Magic Johnson, who has offered public support of his son EJ, who is gay.
I mean, the key was signg on to have a ntug relatnship wh and wh the gay muny.... ”“They have bmirched their legacy of batg bigotry by partnerg wh LA Pri awardg this year’s Communy Hero Award to an obscene anti-Catholic group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, ”Catholic League print Bill Donohue Dodgers origally banned the group, but reversed that cisn after gay rights groups raised unholy hell. “The homosexual bigots are known for simulatg sodomy while drsed as nuns.