Bryan Ruby be only active profsnal baseball player out as gay

Contents:

• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’
• IS HOLN CLFIELD GAY?
• JEFF GAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

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

Term ed by homosexual men to ask other men whether they are a "top" or a "bottom" durg sexual activi.

And 2002, Piazza held a news nference to clare, “I’m not gay.

IS HOLN CLFIELD 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.

JEFF GAY

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.

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

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

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.