MLB umpire Dale Stt: ‘I wasn’t timidated by threats to out me as gay’

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

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY

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Today, we’re revisg December 2014, and the public acknowledgement by our iend, MLB umpire Dale Stt, that he was a married gay man, as reported by -founr Jim Buzski.

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MLB umpire Dale Stt out as gay quiett way possible.

He is gay and married to his partner of 28 years.

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

We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg * dale i'm gay *

Yet is unrstandably the one that most people will notice, bee Stt is the first Major League Baseball umpire to publicly say he is gay while active (and the first out active male official the NBA, NHL, NFL or MLB). One Outsports rear, an active NCAA Divisn I baseball umpire who is gay but do not want his name ed, did notice and he sent this email: “Fantastic!

He wasn’t seekg attentn for beg gay and was also worried that would e a distractn jt as baseball’s postseason was startg.

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Stt is a classic example of someone who is openly gay wh his workplace and social circle but, until now, not publicly out.

DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. He’s sce retired after umpirg for 32 years the majors. * dale i'm gay *

“The first 10 years of my Major League umpire reer, I would have been horrified if a story had e out that I was gay, ” he said. The two met on a Monday night October 1986 at CC Slghters, a gay bar Portland.

One day I jt said to myself: ‘I get , you’re gay.

I unrstood that there was a game that had to be played the game of life as a gay man 1979, but I also unrstood who I was and what I was and wasn’t like some long-drawn out procs. Stt says that addn to never havg a negative exchange wh anyone the umpirg ranks over beg gay, he believ he has changed some mds.

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We were the locker room and he was tellg a story about someone and he ed the term ‘that’s so gay. The last thg I want is people screamg at me bee I’m gay.

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

I’m an umpire who happens to be gay.

I’m not tryg to be some gay person who happens to be an umpire. While he has no tentn of wrg a book when he retir, he jok that if he did would be lled “Out at Home, ” a reference to him always beg openly gay his private life. Dale Wayne Sigler & Reprsed Homosexualy.

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

I thk he's lyg about what happened between them and believe somethg nsensual happened between the two of them - but then Sigler uldn't align that wh everythg he believ about homosexualy... He talks about reprsn - the gnive dissonance that mt occur when you believe that homosexualy is an "abomatn", but you yourself are havg homosexual thoughts and feelgs. He me out as gay, the first MLB umpire to do so.

”He remas the only MLB umpire to e out publicly while on the job, although the book mak clear he’s not the only gay umpire Major League active player on an MLB roster has e out to the public – although there were two who did so after their reers end: The late Glenn Burke, and MLB vice print of social rponsibily and cln Billy Bean, who wrote the troductn to Stt’s book. ”Growg up Eugene, Oregon, Stt knew he was gay junr high school.