Contents:
- FALLY, SOME GAY PRI FROM THE YANKE
- AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT
- GAY MAN TO WRE TELL-ALL BOOK ABOUT NY YANKE
FALLY, SOME GAY PRI FROM THE YANKE
9, 2018Next year is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg 1969, when monstratns after a police raid on a Greenwich Village bar helped kdle the morn gay rights memoratn of such a semal moment for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is expected to draw lns to New York next June for ftivals, paras and cultural all, a surprisg participant has ggerly emerged: the Yanke.
AS MORE TEAMS HOST GAY PRI EVENTS, YANKE REMA A HOLDOUT
Major League Baseball had a float the New York Cy Pri March for the first time this year, wh the recently retired umpire Dale Stt, who is gay, faced wh the potential embarrassment of beg the only major league team never to have held a pri night at a game, the Yanke are velopg a seri of events next season tied to the celebratn of the Stonewall rts, a team spokman said, nfirmg an SNY report on Tuday. People — not jt for those New York Cy but around the world, ” said Corey Johnson, the Cy Council speaker, who me out as gay to his high school football teammat nearly 20 years ago. General Manager Brian Cashman and his assistant general manager, Jean Afterman, have worked wh groups that assist gay and transgenr youths, and the team has ved Billy Bean, the gay M.
By amg their plans around the Stonewall celebratn, the Yanke hope to create an event that some way endur, though remas uncerta whether will be more than a one-time Buzski, a founr of the webse Outsports, said there were a number of meangful steps the Yanke uld take, cludg settg up a scholarship fund for gay llege stunts terted sports management and puttg L. A., ” fans the Yankee Stadium bleachers tnted opposg fans wh a vulgar versn of the song that clud a chos of “Why are you gay?
The Dodgers publicly apologized, stuted sensivy trag and donated 5, 000 tickets to a gay and lbian rights anizatn. The next year, the Chigo Cubs held what is believed to be the first game promoted as a gay pri recent years, the Dodgers have put a Hollywood flourish on their L.
GAY MAN TO WRE TELL-ALL BOOK ABOUT NY YANKE
Night, recg gay celebri to sg the natnal anthem and throw out the ceremonial first pch and teamg wh L. The team donat to the Trevor Project, an advocy group for suici preventn among gay and transgenr youths and sponsors L.
“We’re volved throughout the year, ” said Braverman, one of baseball’s hight-rankg openly gay executiv.
Former Brav closer John Rocker’s homophobic and racist rant about the New York Cy 7 tra is one of the most famo diatrib sports history.