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Contents:

• EXPERT: USE GAY SLURS NTROVERSY TO TACKLE HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• BISEXUAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PLAYER LLS OUT OPPONENT FOR GAY SLUR
• BISEXUAL UPSTATE NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PLAYER ALLEG GAY SLUR WAS ED GAME
• U.S. BASEBALL MENTATOR SPEND FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR
• BASEBALL PLAYER APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR
• BISEXUAL HS BASEBALL PLAYER FROM HUDSON VALLEY ACC OPPONENT OF USG GAY SLUR
• REDS ANNOUNCER WHO RIGNED AFTER ANTI-GAY SLUR HIRED BY BASEBALL LEAGUE PUERTO RI
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• NO GAY SLURS ED BY MLB PLAYERS ON FIELD FOR FIRST TIME SCE 2016
• BLUE JAYS SPEND SHORTSTOP 3 GAM FOR GAY SLUR WRTEN ON EYEBLACK
• EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE
• ST. LOUIS CARDALS ROOKIE BRENDAN DONOVAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE OLD TWEETS

EXPERT: USE GAY SLURS NTROVERSY TO TACKLE HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS

STORY HIGHLIGHTS"It is pecially damagg bee of their creased public profile, " says John AmaechiSports lears n "turn the negative events to a posive teachable moment, " expert saysKobe Bryant was fed $100, 000 for his statementChigo Bulls center Joakim Noah was fed $50, 000 for his slur (CNN) -- Gay slurs hurled by three figur profsnal sports the last month are more than jt ttosterone-fueled temper tantms, some say.

The behavr, they say, is symptomatic of a eper problem and should be ed as an opportuny to tackle homophobia profsnal sports.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

In early May, Atlanta Brav pchg ach Roger McDowell ma natnal headl for tossg anti-gay slurs at a group of fans San Francis. " The NBA recently released a pubic service announcement featurg players Grant Hill and Jared Dudley about anti-gay language. "Male profsnal sports do have an issue wh homophobia, but so do society general, " Ch, of Northeastern Universy, said.

So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball. “Pri is for everyone, ” In profsnal baseball, brave players who me out as gay publicly are maly om mor leagu. The prsure toward acceptg pri players baseball may be why homosexual players who e out as gay before or after retirement have a short reer.

BISEXUAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PLAYER LLS OUT OPPONENT FOR GAY SLUR

Here we gonna look at the baseball players who intify themselv as homosexuals durg or after their playg reers. Moreover, Santan ma headl after g out as gay ont of his mother and teammat while filmg This Is Life, a TLC documentary 2017.

BISEXUAL UPSTATE NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PLAYER ALLEG GAY SLUR WAS ED GAME

Later, terviewg wh SB natn outsports, he mentns hearg anti-gay slurs by teammat the locker room or gam felt like havg a knife the heart. Moreover, he later beme the first major league affiliated player and send active profsnal baseball player to e out as gay publicly.

Conroy also mentned hearg many homophobic languag durg his reer, and the ma reason behd g out is to te people. In 2003, Bean wrote the book named Gog the other way to answer cricism and hope of gay athlet accepted by others sports. Sce 2016, no homophobic slur has been chanted for the first time, and looks like MLB is dog s bt to change the perspective toward homosexual players.

U.S. BASEBALL MENTATOR SPEND FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR

Here's a list of those the profsnal and llege baseball world proud enough to wear a rabow p wh their pstrip and e out as gay. 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. "They n't ever say now that a gay man n't play the majors, bee I'm a gay man and I ma , " he told The Philalphia Inquirer.

BASEBALL PLAYER APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR

@billybeanballThe only livg Major League Baseball veteran who has e out as gay, outfielr Billy Bean played for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padr over a reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995.

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. "Beg gay don't change anythg about the way I play or teract wh teammat, " he said a team statement released for Pri Month.

@_DavidD_41A first baseman for the Helena Brewers, rhe Milwkee Brewers' rookie affiliate team Montana, David Denson 2015 beme the first player affiliated wh Major League Baseball to e out as gay. @DunngtonTylerA pcher for rookie and Class A teams affiliated wh the Cardals 2014, Dunngton told Outsports he left pro ball bee of homophobia. "I experienced both ach and players make remarks on killg gay people durg my time baseball, and each ment felt like a knife to my heart, " he said.

BISEXUAL HS BASEBALL PLAYER FROM HUDSON VALLEY ACC OPPONENT OF USG GAY SLUR

Durg an 11-year mor league reer, John Dillger would vis bear gathergs on the road but kept his gay sexualy secret up until his retirement 2005. @tampaMarkJWhen Mark Johnson and teammat won a champnship for the Universy of Tampa 1998, he still was nial about his gay sexualy, he told Outsports, but he beme more nfint over his adult life.

When Tyson Lk, director of baseball operatns at the Universy of South Carola, cid on Natnal Comg Out Day 2016 to publicly reveal he was gay, he beme the first person Divisn I llege baseball to ever e out as LGBT. An umpire for Major League Baseball most notable for a rather famo row wh Pete Rose, Dave Pallone would eventually be ducted to the first class of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame. He later wrote his 1990 memoir Behd the Mask: My Double Life Baseball that he believed he was fired bee he was gay.

REDS ANNOUNCER WHO RIGNED AFTER ANTI-GAY SLUR HIRED BY BASEBALL LEAGUE PUERTO RI

An openly bisexual high school baseball player upstate New York alleg that he was the target of a hateful gay slur durg a recent game, settg off an vtigatn at one school and leavg hurt feelgs at another. (Edor’s note: Para 2 ntas a homophobic slur that may be offensive to rears)LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Edor’s note: Para 2 ntas a homophobic slur that may be offensive to rearsA veteran U.

Baseball mentator has been spend om his job as the voice of the Ccnati Reds after makg a “horrific, homophobic remark” on air, the latt anti-gay slur to mar the world of Brennaman, who has vered major league gam for 33 years, ed the term “fag pal” durg a game on Wednday night, promptg a backlash on social media and swift apologi om the team, top players and the broadster.

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

Homophobia sport stretch om the soccer pch to the swimmg pool, wh a fear of abe, bullyg, loss of e and asslt promptg many stars to hi their sexualy.

Iniativ om rabow lac England to gay champnships Atralia have tried to tackle the issue, but anti-gay sentiments rema wispread. Brish middleweight boxer Jam Hawley was sacked after postg homophobic and transphobic ments onle last month, while Irish lightweight Conor McGregor was ptured on vio 2017 g a homophobic year, Atralian gby unn star Israel Fol was sacked by Rugby Atralia after sayg on social media that “hell awas” gay people; he was then hired by Catalans Reds said on Wednday that the 56-year-old mentator had been spend “effective immediately”. “The Ccnati Reds anizatn is vastated by the horrific, homophobic remark ma this eveng by broadster Thom Brennaman, ” the team said a statement.

NO GAY SLURS ED BY MLB PLAYERS ON FIELD FOR FIRST TIME SCE 2016

Toronto Blue Jays center fielr Kev Pillar apologized Thursday for directg an anti-gay slur at a Brav pcher, which uld lead to disciplary actn om Major League Baseball. In 2012, former Toronto shortstop Yunel Esbar received a three-game spensn om the team after he played a game wh an anti-gay slur wrten Spanish on his eye-black stickers. An openly bisexual high school baseball player om the Hudson Valley is allegg that he was the target of a hateful gay slur durg a recent game, lnchg an vtigatn and firtorm of emotns.

Brennaman, who rigned om the Reds September after he was ught g an anti-gay slur on the air, has been hired to announce baseball the Roberto Clemente League Puerto Ri. He’ll make his broadstg but the Roberto Clemente League ls than three months after leavg the Brennaman ed anti-gay slur on-air durg gameAfter multiple seasons as the Reds’ primary televisn broadster, Brennaman was spend Augt after he was ught g an anti-gay slur on the air. 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.

BLUE JAYS SPEND SHORTSTOP 3 GAM FOR GAY SLUR WRTEN ON EYEBLACK

" 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. "I grew up a culture where homosexualy was taboo, " Jon, a baseball ach at Friends' Central High School Philalphia, said.

EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE

Bean played the major leagu as an outfielr for nearly a and me out as gay himself after his retirement the 1990s. "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. 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.

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

ST. LOUIS CARDALS ROOKIE BRENDAN DONOVAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE OLD TWEETS

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. ’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “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.