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

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

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

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

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

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. I’m an umpire who happens to be gay. I’m not tryg to be some gay person who happens to be an umpire.

DALE GAY

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.

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

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.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

”Growg up Eugene, Oregon, Stt knew he was gay junr high school. 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.

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

He wr of losg a number of iends and acquatanc to the disease, and of hearg homophobic ments om fellow umpir. 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. “It wasn’t bee someone was sniffg around thkg I was gay. “Gay, straight, bisexual.

Nearly 30 years ago, the award-wng rad host and polil pund Ia Dale was subjected to a trmatic sexual asslt – yet only now is he talkg about his experience was his late 20s, had not e out as gay and had only jt bee sexually active.

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

”Dale, who married his long-time partner John Simmons five years ago, told the Observer: “The police then would not have been sympathetic and, perhaps more to the pot, I had not e out as gay.

” In his part memoir/part polemic, Dale wr about beg gay. I have no doubt that I was born gay yet I fd bizarre that some people fd this hard to accept. There are some misguid souls who believe people choose to be gay.

“There are also teachers out there who are still reluctant to talk about homosexualy for fear of sectn 28, even though this was removed unr Tony Blair. ”Dale, who stood, unsuccsfully, for Parliament 2003 – when he was the first Tory ndidate to be open about their homosexualy – stat his book: “I have no doubt I would now be an MP if were not for me beg gay. Anybody else thk Dale Moss is totally gay?

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

The send episo explor the fact that Zeltner was gay, and also the theory that Sigler may have killed him for that reason. Dpe the former Death Row mate's optimistic outlook, he stat on mera that homosexualy is an "abomatn, " which will naturally make some viewers qutn his motiv for murr.

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.