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MLB to honour gay pioneer Glenn Burke at all-star game
The Manchester Guardian ^ | July 15, 2014 | Amanda Holpuch in New York

Posted on 07/15/2014 9:56:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Burke, who came out to team-mates in the 1970s and to the public in 1982, died of AIDS in 1995 aged just 42.

More than two decades after Glenn Burke abruptly retired from Major League Baseball, the former LA Dodgers outfielder will be honored at Tuesday night’s all-star game as one of the few professional athletes to have come out.

Burke's four-and-a-half year career is remembered for his charismatic attitude and the pressures he faced as a gay athlete in the late 1970s.

Burke, who played for the Dodgers and the Oakland A's, was the first professional ball player to come out to his team-mates and team owners, although he didn't announce it publicly until 1982, two years after his career was over. He died of Aids-related complications in 1995, aged 42.

Burke said he was "sure his team-mates didn't care" – but admitted he faced problems with management. "Prejudice drove me out of baseball sooner than it should have," Burke told the New York Times in 1994. "But I wasn't changing."

The Dodgers’ general manager Al Campanis reportedly pressured him to get married. "I guess you mean to a woman," Burke replied. Campanis denied the claims....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; celebratesin; corporateliberalism; culturewar; dodgers; gayitup; god; hedonism; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; mlb; moralabsolutes; sodomite; sodomy; sports
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To: a fool in paradise

It’s bad enough in sports to be sleeping with the coach’s daughter, quite another thing to be sleeping with the coach’s son.


21 posted on 07/15/2014 11:17:54 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, let’s honor a man who’s mental disorder drove him to have unprotected sodomy with perfect strangers at highway rest stops. An illness that cot him his life.

Good Choice. How brave he was.


22 posted on 07/15/2014 11:54:37 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Rockpile
522 AB,,,,,,,,,2 HR,,,,,38 RBI,,,,,,22BB,,,,,,,73K. In four and a half years.

Not even a mid-level utility player.

23 posted on 07/16/2014 1:49:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of all the known deviant sexual behaviors (disorders), what gives homosexuality its special, protected status?


24 posted on 07/16/2014 2:08:36 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot
Of all the known deviant sexual behaviors (disorders), what gives homosexuality its special, protected status?

Revolutionary political usefulness.
It isn't exclusively the "gays" themselves driving this thing.

25 posted on 07/16/2014 2:26:56 AM PDT by Salman
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To: windsorknot
"...Of all the known deviant sexual behaviors (disorders), what gives homosexuality its special, protected status?"

Liberals and other deviants of all stripes?

26 posted on 07/16/2014 2:27:35 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: a fool in paradise

And that is the money sentence- “died of Aids at 42”


27 posted on 07/16/2014 3:10:48 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When will baseball honor the first player to “come out” as a beasti?

Does that player have to die from a disease he got from that type of sex? Would he have to beceom “friends” with his coaches dog?


28 posted on 07/16/2014 3:23:15 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

looks like i won’t be going to nor watching any major league games from now on

oh well.

they want to promote fags and the fag culture, then they won’t be doing it to anyone in my family


29 posted on 07/16/2014 3:38:17 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: llevrok

Sign of our sick times.


30 posted on 07/16/2014 3:41:56 AM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: TBP
Did they? I didn’t see it.

That's what I was wondering...

31 posted on 07/16/2014 3:45:37 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Not televised (wisely so, imo; ratings have been falling fast enough already): just like the ‘gay wedding’ wasn’t televised during the Rose Bowl Parade this past year.


32 posted on 07/16/2014 3:58:47 AM PDT by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another once-great American institution bows down to the great god of political correctness.


33 posted on 07/16/2014 4:03:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is someone honored for getting a preventable disease?


34 posted on 07/16/2014 4:30:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: windsorknot

Soon there will be a celebration honoring Sandusky.


35 posted on 07/16/2014 4:32:19 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MLB “honours” homosexual based on nothing other than he was homo.

Where’s the muslim baseball news?


36 posted on 07/16/2014 5:03:45 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Goodbye, America.

Glad I knew you when you were good, healthy and sane.


37 posted on 07/16/2014 11:39:43 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s hope they can find a transgender player to honor at the 2015 game.


38 posted on 07/16/2014 8:51:10 PM PDT by golf lover (goingf)
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