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Every year, gay men fan out for summer fun. But the pool at New Hope’s the Raven remas the statn for “daddi” and the young men they admire.

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Ba, 19, and Sigmund, 18, are the only openly gay uple at John Burroughs School, but their beg at the dance was old news to the stunts there.

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“We have been the only openly gay uple at Burroughs sce I’ve been here, but isn’t a problem at all at our school. But the stunts, faculty and admistratn at Burroughs have been ultra-supportive of Ba, who drew a prott om the Wtboro Baptist Church homophob after his g out as a high school football star beme natnal news. 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.

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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.

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

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“Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay.

“My son wasn’t 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:.

POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE

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. Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun.

Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three.

But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism. When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool.

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But if you’re gay and not sippg mojos at the Chelsea Atlantic Cy or whiffg poppers Rehoboth, you’re at the Pool — part of a bed gay bar/motel operatn — baskg s glisteng bawds.

3, which is everyone else — a loose llectn of sociable gays summoned to the water as if by gravatnal pull, neon pool noodl potg skyward.

It’s like circle time at gay summer, gays are assiatg at a faster pace than ever before.

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