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Contents:

• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SAYS 'DISCRIMATN AND HATE HAS A VOICE BASEBALL' AFTER TAMPA BAY RAYS PLAYERS REFED TO WEAR PRI NIGHT UNIFORMS
• 'SAD AND FURIATG:' OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ON RAYS PLAYERS' STANCE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO PLAYER, SEAN CONROY, GETS SHUTOUT HISTORIC START
• IS MLB READY FOR GAY PLAYER? FIRST OPEN PRO SEAN CONROY DISCS NCERNS
• STATISTICS SAY THERE ARE DOZENS OF GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYERS
• GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT
• INPENNT BASEBALL LEAGUE MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO
• BASEBALL WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER
• REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER STARTS MOR LEAGUE GAME 'GREAT DAY FOR THE LGBT MUNY'
• WHY AREN'T THERE MORE GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS?
• NOTHG MOR ABOUT IT: BRYAN RUBY MAK HISTORY AS ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OPENLY GAY
• BRYAN RUBY BE THE ONLY OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER
• HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT
• BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS
• DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
• SALEM-KEIZER VOLNO BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER
• DAVID DENSON, PRO BASEBALL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, HAS HELP ON HIS JOURNEY
• BREWERS PROSPECT DAVID DENSON FIRST GAY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER
• ACTUALLY, JASON COLLS ISN'T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN A MAJOR PRO SPORT
• THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

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. 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. 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.

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

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

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.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Ruby, a 26-year-old who has been playg ball sce he was 6, publicly me out as gay durg his 2021 stt on the Salem-Keizer Volno, an pennt team that was once an affiliate of the San Francis had already been out to his iends and fay for five years, but he said took him so long to e out baseball bee he was never able to actively pot to someone Major League Baseball and see someone like him. He add that he hoped teams would take a step further to "thk more refully about what they n actually do to support the gay baseball players that they have their anizatns that aren't fortable enough yet to reveal who they are.

Profsnal baseball player Bryan Ruby, who me out as publicly gay last September, said the cisns of several Tampa Bay Rays players to cle wearg LGBTQ ls on specialized ps on their uniform is a bad look for baseball and an example of why players on current MLB rosters rema closeted. -- Baseball history was ma Northern California we untry Thursday night when the sport's first active profsnal player to e out as gay pched a shutout before an enthiastic crowd that seemed more imprsed wh his performance than his role as a Conroy, 23, led the Sonoma Stompers to a 7-0 victory durg his first start wh the 22-man team that is part of the pennt Pacific Associatn of Baseball Clubs.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"The atmosphere at Arnold Field, the Stompers' 370-seat home field, was low-key, wh no obv signs was a historic game or even gay pri night at the ballpark -- except for the rabow-striped socks and arm warmers some players (but not Conroy) Stompers did not make a special announcement or ll attentn to the tone so Conroy uld foc on his pchg, general manager Theo Fightmaster the startg lp was announced, however, Conroy got the loust cheer.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

"His goal has always been to be the first openly gay baseball player, so he was very much favor of tellg the story, of rryg that torch, " he Do, 67, attend the game wh 25 iends om a lol group for LGBT senrs and was one of three fans picked to throw out a first pch. "While this pcher who was unknown to me before your ll may not be a prospect for Major League Baseball, he certaly serv our applse, " Thorn, who had earned four sav as a closer for the Stompers before takg the mound as a starter for the first time, said he told his fay he was gay at age 16 and was open wh his high school, summer league and llege teams.

Supreme Court schled to le any day now on whether to make same-sex marriage legal across the Vogler, 50, -owner of a lol pany that sponsors LGBT tours and events we untry, marveled om behd a fence not far om the tcher as he watched Conroy throw some of what turn out to be 140 grew up another part of Sonoma County and left as soon as he uld bee the anti-gay hostily was so high. However, the right-hand pcher for the Sonoma Stompers, an pennt profsnal team Northern California we untry, knows there uld be challeng if he ever mak to the next beme the first openly gay pro baseball player last month when he publicly me out shortly before pchg a shutout victory on the team's gay pri night.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY

"Conroy said he's surprised he is the only active gay profsnal player to e out and said of potential closeted MLB players followg his example, "I would gus tak a certa kd of person to be able to handle havg such a private part of your life the public eye, addn to beg a profsnal athlete.... 6 percent of men 18 to 29 intified as gay, bisexual or are 30 major league baseball teams, each wh 40 men on their roster (all of them active once September llups take place), yet none of the 1, 200 players have acknowledged beg gay.

The ex-Dodger outfielr spoke to TODAY’s Bryant Gumbel 1982 about his cisn to publicly e out as gay after retirg om 28, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC / Updated July 3, 2022, 6:26 PM UTC / Source: TODAYNearly forty years ago, Glenn Burke ma the momento cisn to e out publicly as gay — makg him the first Major League Baseball player to do so. I thought if I jt kept to myself for a while until I was ready to tell them that they might unrstand if they got to like me first stead of what I’d done, you know, sexually or somethg like BurkeAfter clg a bribe to marry a woman by the Dodgers’ general manager Al Campanis, Maraniss said, the team trad him to Oakland, where he faced homophobia om teammat and fans; he rarely played at all before beg sent to the mors Utah. Billy Bean, right, MLB's ambassador for cln, meets wh Carol Williams, sister of Glenn Burke, before the baseball game between the San Diego Padr and the Oakland Athletics on June 17, 2015, Oakland, Margot / APBurke kept active sports, petg the Gay Gam track 1982 and basketball 1986.

SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball history was ma Northern California we untry Thursday night when the sport's first openly gay active profsnal started the game as a Conroy, 23, took the mound for the Sonoma Stompers, a 22-man team that is part of the pennt Pacific Associatn of Baseball atmosphere at the ballpark was low-key, wh no obv signs was a historic night or even a gay-pri-themed game except for the rabow-striped socks and arm warmers some players — but not Conroy — startg Lp was announced, Conroy got the loust cheer. "His goal has always been to be the first openly gay baseball player, so he was very much favor of tellg the story, of rryg that torch, " Fightmaster Do, 67, attend the game wh 25 iends om a lol group for LGBT senrs and was picked to throw out a first pch. "Conroy, a right-hanr who has earned four sav and allowed only two hs the seven ngs he has pched so far as a closer for the 15-3 Stompers, said he had been open wh his high school, summer league and llege teams and told his fay he was gay at age 16.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Several baseball players have disclosed their sexual orientatn while retirement but Conroy is thought to be the first active player to do Yorker Conroy joed The Stompers om llege May and had already told his team-mat and achg staff he was gay, said general manager Theo Fightmaster.

EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED

Image source, APImage ptn, Conroy, right, gets a handshake om tcher Isaac WenrichConroy told his fay he was gay when he was 16 and he said was important to be hont wh his new team-mat, pecially when nversatn turns to girliends.

"Instead of gettg the different looks or qutns when I didn't jo them, I'd rather tell you the tth and let you know who I am and have real nversatns stead of the fake on, " he Stompers will wear rabow-themed socks or symbols to mark the ocsn, the club has gay players US sportsImage source, Getty ImagFootball: Robbie Rogers sred his first goal for LA Galaxy this weekBasketball: Jason Colls played 13 seasons the NBAAmerin football: Michael Sam was drafted by the St Louis Rams, now plays Canada.

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

Ntendo Unveils New Controller Digned To Be Chucked Across A RoomOffEnglishSourc nfirmed that gay players have actually been credibly mon the NHL for s, and the league is only now beg creded wh layg the groundwork for the growg acceptance of homosexualy profsnal sports.

“It’s obvly a watershed moment when a player om the NBA announc he’s gay, but most people fet about Montreal Canadiens wger Steve Shutt, who me out back 1972, ” said hockey historian Hank Crerand, notg that Shutt was the first of many gay NHL players to reveal their homosexualy. ”Sce s origal ceptn 1917 through to the “Origal 6” era of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, the NHL has reportedly had a long history of gay players and was far ahead of s time batg prejudice and tolerance toward homosexualy wh locker rooms and stadiums. ”“That kiss really changed a lot of attus wh the hockey muny, ” Crerand Probert, who played 16 seasons for the Detro Red Wgs and Chigo Blackhawks, reportedly had a huge impact on the league as hockey’s “Homo Enforcer, ” timidatg the petn and pummelg opponents wh vic punch.

'SAD AND FURIATG:' OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ON RAYS PLAYERS' STANCE

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

" He scribed hidg his sexualy while playg for the Utah Jazz, but said some teammat who spected he was gay were welg about a 2007 terview on "Outsi the L, " Amaechi, who played five seasons the NBA, said he thought there were other gay players the league, but said 's "terrifyg" for some to e out. ""If I n show that I'm out and I'm fe, then hopefully the younger generatn will feel the same way, " Grer said the same year, Grer recieved a multi-ln dollar al om Nike, and beme the first openly gay basketball player endorsed by the brand, acrdg to The married her wife, Cherelle, 2019.

IS MLB READY FOR GAY PLAYER? FIRST OPEN PRO SEAN CONROY DISCS NCERNS

— Baseball history was ma Thursday on a field of wistful dreams Northern California we untry when the sport's first openly gay active profsnal started the game as a Conroy, 23, took the mound for the Sonoma Stompers, a 22-man team that is part of the pennt Pacific Associatn of Baseball atmosphere at the ballpark was low-key, wh no obv signs was a historic night or even a gay-pri-themed game except for the rabow-striped socks and arm warmers some players — but not Conroy — walked his first batter and stck out his THE DAILY NEWS ON FACEBOOK. "His goal has always been to be the first openly gay baseball player, so he was very much favor of tellg the story, of rryg that torch, " Fightmaster League Baseball historian John Thorn nfirmed that Conroy is the first active profsnal to e out as gay. But for some gay athlet, their cisn might simply be a matter of wantg to be what they thk is a "good" one straight veteran major-league pcher, someone who’s nsired one of the game’s good guys but wished to rema anonymo, gay players don’t speak up bee of “the culture of the clubhoe.

"Former Player of The Day - Billy Bean - Outfielr, #Padr #Tigers #Dodgers #PlayerOfTheDay" - @GayBaseballFanIt has been a long road, but thanks to pneers such as Glenn Burke, Billy Bean, David Denson, and Anrson Comás, baseball is beg a more welg place for everyone. Bryan Ruby envisns a better world of cln and thenticy baseball, so he's sharg his story to be part of the is the latt profsnal male athlete this summer to talk so openly about beg gay by speakg wh USA Today Sports' Stt Gleon.

The Las Vegas Rairs fensive end is now jt one of two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu (the Natnal Football League, Natnal Basketball Associatn, Major League Baseball and the Natnal Hockey League).

STATISTICS SAY THERE ARE DOZENS OF GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYERS

Homophobic language is still a regular feature of playg on a boys’ sports team the US and abroad, Denison’s rearch shows – one of his studi found that more than half of the ice hockey and gby players he terviewed said they’d ed slurs.

Denison scribed what he lls a “cycle of excln” that begs when a boy hears ach or olr players e homophobic language and observ a “posive rponse” to that behavr – maybe they lgh at each other, or the ach don’t challenge them, he said. Almost 50 years earlier, there was Glenn Burke, a buddg Los Angel Dodgers star whose reer was cut short by homophobia the 1970s, argu Andrew Maraniss, an thor and special projects ordator wh Vanrbilt Universy Athletics, his book on Burke.

Nor did he lose sleep over an unknown that no prev player had dared to nont: what his teammat would say when he told them (and team management, and probably the prs) that he was gay, which would make him the first openly, publicly gay player profsnal baseball. And if a pro baseball player is gay, no one expects him to say so: Prev players who’ve e out have eher been driven om the game spe their private liv not appearg the public eye (Glenn Burke) or waed until long after retirement to disclose their orientatn (Billy Bean).

GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT

In March, New York Mets fielr Daniel Murphy rpond to a sprg-trag vis om Bean (now servg as MLB’s ambassador for cln) by tellg reporters, “I disagree wh his liftyle” and “I do disagree wh the fact that Billy is a homosexual. For years, ballplayers and sportswrers have said baseball clubho weren’t ready for a gay ballplayer—but that jt turned out to be s own hurtful stereotype, a prumptn that the jocks wouldn’t act the way any cent people do toward a iend.

INPENNT BASEBALL LEAGUE MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO

MLB hired him 13 months ago to te players and league employe about sexism, homophobia and racism, and help create an atmosphere of acceptance around the months of Bean’s hirg two MLB club employe me out — one durg a Bean prentatn. Brewers prospect David Denson first gay active pro baseball playerAssociated PrsAug 16, 2015, 12:59 AM ETMILWAUKEE -- Milwkee Brewers mor leaguer David Denson has bee the first openly gay active player on a team affiliated wh Major League Milwkee Journal Sentel said Denson, wh the help of former major leaguer Billy Bean, reached out to the newspaper to tell his 20-year-old first baseman plays for the Helena Brewers the rookie Pneer League. Major-league baseball player Glenn Burke was fortably out to his teammat and iends 1976—but back then, was the prs that wasn't ready for a gay male / LMA few months back, the Baltimore Ravens' Brendon Ayanbajo, an outspoken advote for LGBT rights, told USA Today that he thought the first player the three major sports to out himself would be a baseball player: "The relig roots are a lot eper basketball and football.

Practilly no one the sports-wrg muny would acknowledge that Burke was gay or report stori that followed up on his told People magaze while promotg his book 1995, "My missn as a gay ballplayer was the breakg of a stereotype... In his 1990 tobgraphy, “Behd the Mask: My Double Life Baseball, ” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was quietly fired 1988 after mors about his sexual orientatn circulated the baseball world, ntend that there were enough gay major league players to create an All-Star team.

BASEBALL WEL FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER

Yet his acplishments were largely fotten or tentnally obscured, whether by a homophobic society that had no e for a gay athlete or by a baseball anchise that wanted to claim cred for the thgs Burke had done for the team whout acknowledgg the prence of an out gay man their Sgled Out, Maraniss do his bt to pture the tragedy and weight of Burke’s story. He would never aga play a major league game, nor would he hold a regular beg forced out of the A’s, Burke remaed his Bay Area home and relished the opportuny to live an openly gay life whout worryg about whether would get back to the prs or jeopardize his baseball reer. But he had a ntrollg and emotnally abive partner who spent most of the money Burke had ma— a partner who had also prsured Burke for years to e out publicly as gay, even when might have st him his partner, Michael Smh, fally nvced Burke to e out a 1982 article the magaze Insi Sports.

The elr Losarda’s homophobic treatment of Burke had larger implitns: the longtime Dodgers manager nied that his own son was gay, even after he died of AIDS, and remaed silent about HIV, the vis that killed both Burke and Losarda, Jr. At least 20 footballers Premier League and Champnship are gay but they're aaid to e out says ex-club bossOpenly gay Leeds Uned director David Haigh says players nfid him - and he believ clubs uld benef mercially if stars e outDavid Haigh durg his time at Leeds UnedAt least 20 football stars are gay and “aaid” to e out, a top club’s ex-director claims.

REPORT: NHL ACTUALLY HAS HAD HUNDREDS OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS FOR YEARS

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER STARTS MOR LEAGUE GAME 'GREAT DAY FOR THE LGBT MUNY'

WHY AREN'T THERE MORE GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS?

NOTHG MOR ABOUT IT: BRYAN RUBY MAK HISTORY AS ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OPENLY GAY

BRYAN RUBY BE THE ONLY OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT

BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS

SALEM-KEIZER VOLNO BRYAN RUBY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

DAVID DENSON, PRO BASEBALL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, HAS HELP ON HIS JOURNEY

BREWERS PROSPECT DAVID DENSON FIRST GAY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

ACTUALLY, JASON COLLS ISN'T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN A MAJOR PRO SPORT

THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS