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
Contents:
- 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’
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- DALE GAY
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- 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
Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world. * dale i'm gay *
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. MLB umpire Dale Stt out as gay quiett way possible.
He is gay and married to his partner of 28 years. 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).
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
View Dale Gay rults cludg current phone number, addrs, relativ, background check report, and property rerd wh Whepag. * dale i'm gay *
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!
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
* dale i'm gay *
He wasn’t seekg attentn for beg gay and was also worried that would e a distractn jt as baseball’s postseason was startg.
Stt is a classic example of someone who is openly gay wh his workplace and social circle but, until now, not publicly out. “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.
DALE GAY
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * dale i'm gay *
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. We were the locker room and he was tellg a story about someone and he ed the term ‘that’s so gay.
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 last thg I want is people screamg at me bee I’m gay. 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.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
Dale Wayne Sigler & Reprsed Homosexualy. 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.
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’
I uldn’t jt make the rounds 1979 sayg: ‘Gus what, I’m gay. “Even before I got to baseball, there was Dale, the happy-go-lucky, funny guy everybody knew, and Dale, who went to the only gay bar Eugene, Oregon, ” he but as a profsnal umpire – the mor leagu 1981 – cid wh the outbreak of Aids. He wr of losg a number of iends and acquatanc to the disease, and of hearg homophobic ments om fellow umpir.
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
Aids-related misrmatn was rampant – there were assumptns that all gay men had the disease, and that uld be spread by touchg shared objects.
He feared that if lleagu learned he was gay, they would refe to work wh him any umpirg schle did have unexpected benefs when me to shieldg his inty though. He went to a gay bar his new hometown and met an artist named Michael Rsch.
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT: ‘I WASN’T TIMIDATED BY THREATS TO OUT ME AS GAY’
“It wasn’t bee someone was sniffg around thkg I was gay. “Gay, straight, bisexual.