Posted on 08/18/2015 4:58:29 PM PDT by Salman
For so long, David Denson desperately wanted to reveal to his baseball teammates that he is gay. He just never envisioned it happening in such impromptu and unstructured fashion.
A first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers' rookie affiliate in Helena, Mont., Denson had just entered the clubhouse a month or so ago when a teammate jokingly referred to him using a derogatory term for a gay male. It was the kind of profane, politically incorrect banter heard in that environment since team sports have been around.
That teammate had no way of knowing Denson actually is gay, but the 20-year-old slugger of African-American and Hispanic descent quickly seized the opportunity.
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Wait. He’s Black, Hispanic, and gay?
Wow, he’s got the trifecta!
Now, if he were a woman, that would count even more.
+1
This nobody makes history? Please. I assume they never heard of Glenn Burke.
“It was nice to know my teammates see me for who I am, not my sexuality.”
“The more Denson thought about it, though, the more he came to realize that a clubhouse confession wasn’t going to be enough.”
Can’t...bring...myself...to...reconcile conflicting statements....must...talk...like Shatner...
Wow. Three victim groups at the same time.
Or a switch-hitter.
Who cares, as long as he only plays with his balls.
Re ‘the locker room’. If he says, “Do you want to see my bat?”, get out of the way or the stampede to the door will kill you.
Pitcher or Catcher?
Once your governement decrees men can marry men ..coming out as gay is kind of like...so what?
and we need to know this.....why?
I cannot understand why someone saying that they are sexually attracted to persons of their own gender is news, and why they are announcing it publicly. Strange times indeed.
There, fixed it.
What is this obsession perverts have to “announce” their sexuality? If you must do that sort of thing, keep it to yourself. When was the last time a straight guy called the team and the press together to announce, “Ya know guys, I really like bangin’ women”?
Or is he just perhaps a switch-hitter?
They all call each other those terms. Its not just their words.
Well, well, well... folks, it’s the second coming of Jackie Robinson! (eyeroll)
LOL!! Montana take note!!
Not only is this not “making history,” but since Michael Sam and Jason Collins already got their fifteen minutes, this is just baseball getting on the bandwagon.
Hey media: If you love this bush-league never-was so much just because he’s gay, why don’t you marry him? I hear that’s legal now.
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