The First Male Athlete to Come Out as Gay

Former pitcher TJ house announced his engagement to his male fiancee and shared that he's gay. Former outfielder named Billy Bean came out in 1999 after having retired a few years before. Glenn Burke became the first person in the history of baseball more than a hundred years? To tell the public that he is gay and he had retired in 1979 Yeah, that takes guts especially at that time period I mean, it shouldn't shouldn't have to but yeah in the 80s.