Stt Ellis Talks About the Broadway Gay-Themed Baseball Play 'Take Me Out'

Contents:

• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
• STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'
• NCAA D1 FOOTBALL OFFICIAL STT BOVA SPIRED BY OTHERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• A LONGTIME UMPIRE SAYS HE IS GAY
• MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
• MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY QUIETT WAY POSSIBLE
• UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S 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.

‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT

"When Bryan told me he was gay I was shocked actually, " Lren Ruby said of the revelatn when Bryan was 21. And the male sports world n be very homophobic wh gradg banter.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’

"I grew up a culture where homosexualy was taboo, " Jon, a baseball ach at Friends' Central High School Philalphia, said. "I had an unual look to that culture, though, bee my brother's gay.

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.

"But I ed to get bullied and fights growg up bee my pops is gay. Bean played the major leagu as an outfielr for nearly a and me out as gay himself after his retirement the 1990s.

STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'

"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.

NCAA D1 FOOTBALL OFFICIAL STT BOVA SPIRED BY OTHERS TO E OUT AS GAY

Stt me out as gay 2014. The first time any of my lleagu said anythg to me about beg gay was durg sprg trag ’98 or ’99.

Dale, we know you’re gay.

For one thg, they had a stereotypil ia their md of what a gay person is like. There were a hundred thgs sayg, Dale’s gay. “Dale Stt recently beme the first Major League umpire to e out as gay.

A LONGTIME UMPIRE SAYS HE IS GAY

I told all three the same thg: I’m still gay. Bs as ual, never heard anythg om the stands about beg gay.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’

In a perfect world, everyone gay would e out and blow away the stereotyp and prenceived notns of who, what, and how many we are. Are there gay umpir workg Major League Baseball right now? Are there gay players?

I heard om police officers, firemen, members of the ary, mothers, fathers, om those who were straight, gay, bi, out, closeted. Of the hundreds of msag and ments, lerally two were hateful or homophobic.

Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY QUIETT WAY POSSIBLE

Bee I want to be known not as “that gay umpire” but, stead, jt as an umpire who happens to be gay. I wonred how thgs would have been different if I’d had an umpire to look up to, a role mol dog what I was strivg to do and who, oh by the way, happened to be gay?

In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. Stt was ducted to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame 2015 and has sce wrten a memoir about his reer.

On the rponse he’s gotten om the gay muny after umpirg the majors for more than three s and penng a memoir “The Umpire is Out: Callg the Game and Livg My Te Self”: SCOTT: The people I’ve talked to on this book tour, tellg me my story changed their life, my story gave them the urage to do this, or … this one lbian uple San Francis, she was, I gave her a big hug bee she said, “You don’t know how much hearg about you a game I love …” and that kd of stuff.

UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY

And you were gay and you were out! But you know gays, we love to make an ex (lghs).