Former MLB Player T.J. Hoe Com Out As Gay: 'I'm Fally Healg' | HuffPost Sports

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• FORMER PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY & ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT
• FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
• FORMER MLB PLAYER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY: 'I'M FALLY HEALG'
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

FORMER PRO BASEBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY & ANNOUNC ENGAGEMENT

Former Major League Baseball (MLB) pcher TJ Hoe, who played for Cleveland and the Blue Jays, has e out as gay and announced his engagement to his boyiend Ryan Nezel. Hoe is the third former MLB player to e out as gay. Dpe havg endured homophobia as he navigated his baseball reer, the ments on his public Facebook post — which has garnered hundreds of “lik” — dited that Hoe has the support of his peers.

Ben Larison, a former llege baseball player and one of the first to e out publicly as gay, married his now-hband, Francis León, on March 17 New York Cy.

FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY

Hoe me out as gay and announced his engagement to his partner, Ryan Nezel, an emotnal social media post, who pched for the Cleveland Indians and the Toronto Blue Jays om 2014 to 2017, said he lived out his childhood dream of playg profsnal baseball Cleveland at 23, but that he ed as a “dg” to “numb what was really gog on si. Hoe celebrated the passage of the Rpect for Marriage Act by sharg his te self wh his former Major League Baseball player me out as gay a poignant Facebook post on Thursday.

Hoe me out as gay a recent post to social media. "This is a great day for the league and baseball, " Bean told Outsports about Hoe's told Outsports the prospect of beg only the third out MLB player was dntg, pecially after he heard what others say about gay people. A former Major League Baseball player has e out as gay a social media post.

Related: 10 pro baseball players who me out and set the stage for a future gay World Seri champ.

FORMER MLB PLAYER T.J. HOE COM OUT AS GAY: 'I'M FALLY HEALG'

Today, as the Los Angel Dodgers prepare to play the World Seri agast the Tampa Bay Rays, -founr Jim Buzski remds that the Dodgers anchise is a part of LGBTQ sports history as havg the only two MLB players who ever were public about beg gay.

Dodgers have had Major League Baseball’s only 2 openly gay players. In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean. Burke, while never publicly out wh the media while playg, did nothg to hi the fact to his teammat that he was gay.

Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team. ” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers — tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married. The Dodgers and their manager, Tom Lasorda, prented a versn of themselv as a clean-cut, All-Amerin team and a flamboyantly gay player uld not be tolerated, pecially one who hung out wh Lasorda’s gay son.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY

(“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda.

“Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay. “My son wasn’t gay.

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

His beg gay was known and players were reluctant to shower wh him. A former Burke teammate Clll Washgton rells that A’s Manager Billy Mart was openly homophobic:.

Burke went on to settle San Francis and was a fixture on the gay scene there, even playg the Gay Gam softball.

While baseball is still wag for s first openly gay active MLB player, Bean’s elevatn to a posn of thory the missner’s office is a sign that thgs have changed sce the days when Glenn Burke was lled a faggot by his manager.