Gay baseball player Bryan Ruby’s teammat ask about his boyiend - Outsports

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• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER’S TEAMMAT ASK ABOUT HIS BOYIEND, ‘WEDDG’ ADVICE
• BRYAN GAY
• BRYAN SGER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, ELLEN PAGE’S COMG OUT AND RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
• BRYAN GAY
• IS ZACH BRYAN GAY? FANS SPEAK OUT ON LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN MIC
• BRIAN GAY

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE 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. " FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salari and payrolls for every major league teamHis g out follows a summer which Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib and Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop also me out as gay.

“As a untry mic songwrer, at first I thought beg gay was a huge weakns, ” said Ruby, who will be showsed the upg documentary, "Out Nashville. Love songs don’t need to be gay or straight.

”Ruby told his fay and close iends he was gay four years ago, then his teammat this summer. I've been a baseball player sce I was seven or eight, way before I knew I was gay. "When Bryan told me he was gay I was shocked actually, " Lren Ruby said of the revelatn when Bryan was 21.

GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYER’S TEAMMAT ASK ABOUT HIS BOYIEND, ‘WEDDG’ ADVICE

And the male sports world n be very homophobic wh gradg banter. "I grew up a culture where homosexualy was taboo, " Jon, a baseball ach at Friends' Central High School Philalphia, said.

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"I had an unual look to that culture, though, bee my brother's gay.

BRYAN SGER OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, ELLEN PAGE’S COMG OUT AND RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW

All of the sudn, the (gay) slurs that I was hearg ronated much differently. Gabriel Cotto, the Volno' tcher, said he never would've pictured Ruby as gay.

But Cotto immediately embraced Ruby once he told him bee his own father is gay.

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"But I ed to get bullied and fights growg up bee my pops is gay.

IS ZACH BRYAN GAY? FANS SPEAK OUT ON LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN MIC

Bean played the major leagu as an outfielr for nearly a and me out as gay himself after his retirement the 1990s. "A steppg stone that uld have a domo effect for other gay profsnal athlet. "It's not all super rosy, " Ruby ach om past generatns have been subtly homophobic, urgg him to keep his sexual orientatn a secret or to be wh a woman to keep up a ont.

Teammat over the years have slipped out gay slurs. Gehrig Richs, the Volno' assistant ach, said he imag teammat beg protective of Ruby if gay slurs were to persist once he's out publicly. " But there is part of the paradox of beg closeted: Homophobic language begets fear.

“I need you to tell me EVERYTHING you know about gay weddgs! He then explaed that he’d started a ‘si htle’ officiatg weddgs after clickg on a ‘Bee Ordaed As A Mister In 30 Mut Or Ls’ ad onle, and that he’d heard gay weddgs were a ‘good market’ for bs. When has a queer player ever advised a straight teammate about officiatg gay weddgs durg battg practice?

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