Baseball

“If we believe in Jesus, who’s encouraged us to live a lifestyle that would abstain from that behavior,” pitcher Jason Adam said, comparing homosexuality to adultery.

Los Angeles Dodgers VP Erik Braverman popped the question to his engineer-model-photographer boyfriend Jonathan Cottrell in Las Vegas. Cottrell happily said yes.

The activism happening in baseball, on the corporate and individual level, sends a clear message to everyone in sports: do something more than change your logos or send social media posts.

The Giants locker room overwhelmingly supported the decision to incorporate the colors of the Progress Pride flag into their uniforms.

Former Los Angeles Dodger Yasiel Puig said he had consensual sex with his accuser at a Lakers game. She said that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Much like many LGBTQ people in history, Aaron’s impact was erased or minimized because people couldn’t accept his success.

The only ‘pride’ the most popular sports team in the city that gave birth to the modern LGBTQ rights movement have is in pinstripes, not a rainbow.

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Leaving the game had nothing to do with his coming out. If anything, the pressure to be a positive role model for gay athletes inspired him to stick it out as long as he did.

A straight ally group says the hazing ban will hopefully end “discrimination and harassment based on gender identity and expression.”

Two LGBTQ couples have been reprimanded for showing affection at Mariners’ games in two weeks. The last incident happened at the team’s inaugural Pride Night.

Bean says it’s not the goal for baseball players to reveal their sexuality, but it’s important to provide a respectful workplace. Currently, there are no out active players in the NBA, NFL, NHL or MLB.

Sara Davis Buechner boasted: “Better than Carnegie Hall, I say, where there’s no beer or hot dogs in the upper deck.”

The man whose push of the wrong button (and humiliated 100 volunteer singers from the San Diego Gay Chorus) has been given a second chance.

Billy Bean has been promoted to vice president for social responsibility and inclusion; Curtis Pride has also been added as an ambassador for inclusion.

The Mets’ second baseman may soon regret some homophobic comments he made when he wasn’t as well-known.

The Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer is the first openly gay active player on a team affiliated with Major League Baseball.

Baseball history was made in Northern California when the sport’s first active professional player to come out as gay pitched a shutout before an enthusiastic crowd that seemed more impressed with his performance than his role as a pioneer.

It was only the second game Sinclairé ever attended, but the classically trained soprano, who has a 4½-octave range, broke new ground before the Oakland A’s game with the San Diego Padres at the A’s LGBT Pride night.

Glenn Burke’s sister had a tough time even coming to the Oakland Coliseum for Athletics Pride Night. Her brother’s death remains painful 20 years later, but she knows how much it would have meant to Burke to be honored in his former ballpark as baseball’s first openly gay player.