In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same.
Contents:
- ‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
- DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER
- MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM
- GAY LOUISIANA FOOTBALL OFFICIAL ENDUR BTAL HOMOPHOBIA OM FELLOW REFERE AND FANS
- YOUNG GAY BASEBALL UMPIRE, SPIRED BY DALE STT, AIMS FOR THE MAJOR LEAGU
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
‘DALE, WE KNOW YOU’RE GAY. WE DON’T RE.’ HOW A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE ME OUT
Former MLB umpire Dale Stt, an excerpt om his new book, reunts how he me out as gay baseball first and then the world. * gay umpire football *
Here's a list of those the profsnal and llege baseball world proud enough to wear a rabow p wh their pstrip and e out as gay.
An outfielr for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland A's between 1976 and 1979, Glenn Burke beme the first Major League Baseball player to e out as gay to teammat and owners while still active, though the team asked that he keep his sexualy secret om the public and he plied.
Two years later, he told Insi Sports that he believed he'd been let go om the Dodgers bee he was gay. "They n't ever say now that a gay man n't play the majors, bee I'm a gay man and I ma , " he told The Philalphia Inquirer.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MLB UMPIRE DALE STT OUT AS GAY
In reuntg how he me out as gay while still an active MLB umpire, Dale Stt is easy to root for. * gay umpire football *
@billybeanballThe only livg Major League Baseball veteran who has e out as gay, outfielr Billy Bean played for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padr over a reer that spanned om 1987 to 1995. He me out four years after retirg om the field, and wrote his 2003 book Gog the Other Way: Lsons From a Life and Out of Major League Baseball that the bullyg and homophobic world of baseball led him to walk away om pro ball.
DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER
This gay high school football official Louisiana has heard and seen homophobia throughout his of wearg the strip. He talks anonymoly about his experience hop of brgg change. * gay umpire football *
"Beg gay don't change anythg about the way I play or teract wh teammat, " he said a team statement released for Pri Month.
@_DavidD_41A first baseman for the Helena Brewers, rhe Milwkee Brewers' rookie affiliate team Montana, David Denson 2015 beme the first player affiliated wh Major League Baseball to e out as gay. @DunngtonTylerA pcher for rookie and Class A teams affiliated wh the Cardals 2014, Dunngton told Outsports he left pro ball bee of homophobia. "I experienced both ach and players make remarks on killg gay people durg my time baseball, and each ment felt like a knife to my heart, " he said.
Durg an 11-year mor league reer, John Dillger would vis bear gathergs on the road but kept his gay sexualy secret up until his retirement 2005. @tampaMarkJWhen Mark Johnson and teammat won a champnship for the Universy of Tampa 1998, he still was nial about his gay sexualy, he told Outsports, but he beme more nfint over his adult life. When Tyson Lk, director of baseball operatns at the Universy of South Carola, cid on Natnal Comg Out Day 2016 to publicly reveal he was gay, he beme the first person Divisn I llege baseball to ever e out as LGBT.
MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM
Patrick Faerber had cid he uldn't advance baseball umpirg bee he's gay. When Dale Stt me out publicly, that changed. Now he's on the Mor League Rerve list. * gay umpire football *
An umpire for Major League Baseball most notable for a rather famo row wh Pete Rose, Dave Pallone would eventually be ducted to the first class of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame. He later wrote his 1990 memoir Behd the Mask: My Double Life Baseball that he believed he was fired bee he was gay. Steve Strimlg is breakg more ground as an out gay football referee, this time leadg the entire group of officials for the upstart USFL.
“The articl I read about other gay people sports each say how much they helped others, ” he told me at the time.
In a perfect world, everyone gay would e out and blow away the stereotyp and prenceived notns of who, what, and how many we are. I heard om police officers, firemen, members of the ary, mothers, fathers, om those who were straight, gay, bi, out, closeted. Closeted gay ach, police and fire personnel, teachers, and many others said this took them another step closer to walkg through that closet door.
GAY LOUISIANA FOOTBALL OFFICIAL ENDUR BTAL HOMOPHOBIA OM FELLOW REFERE AND FANS
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Bee I want to be known not as “that gay umpire” but, stead, jt as an umpire who happens to be gay. I wonred how thgs would have been different if I’d had an umpire to look up to, a role mol dog what I was strivg to do and who, oh by the way, happened to be 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.
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.
YOUNG GAY BASEBALL UMPIRE, SPIRED BY DALE STT, AIMS FOR THE MAJOR LEAGU
It is believed by many that male profsnal footballers are not openly gay or bisexual parison to female players. Read on to fd out more about the homosexual male players football history. * gay umpire football *
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.
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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
We were the locker room and he was tellg a story about someone and he ed the term ‘that’s so 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.
Football referee Jam Adck speaks to the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst"I'm very appreciative of the fact that I'm an openly gay man football.
"Adck has worked as a fourth official the Premier League'People know I'm gay and jt accept - I'm fortunate for that'As a child of the '80s and '90s, Adck was ed to hearg the same tired stereotyp - that people who loved sport uldn't be gay as, who is om Long Eaton Derbyshire, didn't e out until he was 27 - but his experienc wh the game have been nothg but posive. And, to be hont, there's been tert om lleagu sayg, 'I'm proud of you Jam, that you're able to be openly gay sport, ' bee they know the barriers that are still place.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
"They're fully supportive and don't change the way they are around me or the way they speak to me bee they thought I was a heterosexual guy, and now they fd out I'm a gay guy. "I've not had any homophobic abe thrown at me, and I n't tell you a story where I've had to bat or overe that. I'm not refereeg bee I'm gay, I'm refereeg bee I'm refereeg a game of football - so jt treat me as a normal human beg.
"That's where my fay, my iends, and my football lleagu have been so supportive - bee don't matter that I am gay and volved sport, and refereeg the Football League. A recent 2015 NBC/USA poll shows that 25% of sports fans surveyed believed an openly-gay athlete on a team harms the team and the entire sport (see story lk below).
“The Umpire is Out” is many thgs: a retrospective of a 33-year major league reer, a reposory of numerable personal triumphs and on-field clash, and a unique perspective of what ’s like to e out as gay while still active Major League Baseball.