Contents:
- EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE
- DTY BAKER’S SUPPORT OF GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS GO BACK TO GLENN BURKE
- DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE
The Astros held their only prev Pri night July 2010 and sold 1, 000 tickets to the event that was unrstated for such a promotn (the cy’s mayor at the time, Annise Parker, was openly gay, and yet she threw out the send pch. Their opponents on Wednday, the Rangers, also play a gay-supportive market Dallas-Fort Worth, yet the team’s distctn as beg the only MLB team to never hold an official Pri night stands out more as each year pass. Intertgly, when baseball wrer Alex Plck, who vers the Rangers, me out as gay a year ago, he was most worried about the team’s reactn and was pleasantly surprised, he wrote an say for Outsports.
DTY BAKER’S SUPPORT OF GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS GO BACK TO GLENN BURKE
I got some relativ that are gay. ” The anti-gay slur rulted an unspecified punishment, the office of the missner told Outsports, rponse to our quiry. And so ends yet another episo of anti-gay slurs major league baseball.
Although Baker didn’t know Burke was gay at first, he gradually began to put together the piec throughout the season.
In a 2018 terview wh The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, he exprsed empathy for closeted gay players followg the revelatn of homophobic tweets om Josh Har and Trea Turner:. There are some gay guys baseball. Later the terview, Baker mentned “gays and lbians kissg on the Jumboton” as an aspect of sports culture that “giv me hope.
DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
As if to unrsre how different the sports world was two s ago, took a year and half after spewg this homophobic and hateful bile for the Brav to unload Rocker. 358 and earned First Team All-WCC honors as a sophomore 2015.... Bee Lcecum’s hair was long, that meant he had to be gay.
Every time Harper to bat, stead of beg greeted wh homophobic tnts that would shame a ten year old, Philly serenas him wh chants of “MVP! Begng 2003, fans began hostg annual Gay Communy Nights at Philli gam and 2009, future out State Reprentative Brian Sims threw out the first pch. As I wrote last year, between his iendship wh Glenn Burke and his quot of support for gays and lbians, Baker is the bt LGBTQ ally ever to wear an Astros uniform.
The baseball lendar June is populated annually by game promotns to celebrate Pri Month and wele the LGBTQ portn of an MLB team’s fan ’ve been known by var tl over the years: “Gay Day, ” “Out at the Ballpark, ” or jt simply “Pri Night. ”The Rangershaven’t done an external, public facg pri event, ak to the 29 other MLB anchis, but have taken steps toward showg more support of the LGBTQ+ muny, helpg sponsor the Gay Softball World Seri 2022, workg wh Dallas’ Rource Center on several non-baseball events and creatg an Incln and Communy Impact Council their offic.