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The New York Yankees are known for standing out from the rest of the league. But this time, the 27-time World Series champions are taking some heat for it. They could soon become the only Major League Baseball team not to hold an LGBTQ Pride Nighttime event.
Twenty-four of the MLB's 30 teams are set to hold gay celebration celebrations this season and a total of 28 teams have held such events at some point. This week, Forbes reported the Los Angeles Angels will join the ranks by holding a Pride Bedtime in June 2019. That would exit the Yankees as the lone holdout.
"Pride Nights are really important to exhibit the LGBTQ society that they are just as welcome as anyone else," New York Municipality Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay man to hold that profession and noted Red Sox fan, told CBS News in a statement. "The Yankees are one of the most famous sporting teams in the earth. They should be leading by example."
"Let's be honest — for a elongated time the planet of sports felt closed off to gay people. Even now there are very few openly gay professional athletes," he added.
The Yankees have previously participated in GLAAD's Spirit Afternoon Campaign, which is organized by the grou
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran apologized Sunday for using an anti-gay slur at a fan in the stands during a game against the Houston Astros.
The NESN broadcast recorded the incident from the sixth inning of Houston's 10-2 win in Boston. A fan in the stands heckled Duran, repeatedly declaring that he needs a tennis racket to hit the ball. Duran was 0-for-2 at the plate at the period, and the Red Sox trailed 10-0. Duran directed the slur at the fan in response.
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After the game, Duran issued an apology via a mutual statement from the Red Sox.
"During tonight’s game, I used a truly horrific word when responding to a fan,” Duran’s utterance reads. “I feel awful knowing how many people I offended and unhappy. I apologize to the entire Red Sox company, but more importantly to the entire LGBTQ community.
"Our young fans are supposed to be able to look up to me as a role model, but tonight I fell far short of that responsibility. I will employ this opportunity to inform myself and my teammates and to grow as a person.”
The Red Sox issued a statement saying that they addressed the incident with Duran alongside their ow
In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was quietly fired in 1988 after rumors about his sexual orientation circulated in the baseball world, contended that there were enough gay major league players to create an All-Star team.
Since then, attitudes and laws about homosexuality acquire changed. High-profile figures in business, politics, show business, education, the media, the military and sports possess come out of the closet.
Athletes in three of the five major U.S. male team sports – the NBA, NFL and MLS – own come out while still playing, with NFL player Carl Nassib and NHL prospect Luke Prokop coming out in summer 2021. Meanwhile, according to OutSports magazine, at least 185 publicly out LGBTQ athletes – 90% of them women – participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, more than in all previous Summer Olympics combined.
But among the more than 20,000 men who hold played major league baseball, not one has publicly come out of the closet while still in uniform.
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Nesnaired the game, which caught Durandirecting a homophobic slur at a heckling fan during a game against the Houston Astros.
“Tennis racket! Tennis racket! You need a tennis racket,” the fan is heard saying, to which Duran responds, “Shut up, you f***ing f*****.”
After the moment, the MLB took behavior and suspended Duran for the next two games without pay.
Nesn mics picked up Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran calling a heckling fan a "f*cking f*****" during Sunday's game
(Warning, slur included in clip below) pic.twitter.com/R6UYjJqnCJ
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“In consultation with Major League Baseball, the Red Sox today issued an unpaid two-game suspension to outfielder Jarren Duran beginning...
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Red Sox suspended Duran two games for anti-gay slur
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox suspended Jarren Duran for two games on Monday without disburse after he shouted a homophobic slur to a fan behind home plate who heckled him in a decrease to the Houston Astros a daytime earlier.
The exchange was caught on a live microphone during the broadcast when Duran — who was 0 for 2 with two strikeouts at that point in the game — was at the plate in the sixth inning. A fan at Fenway Park can be heard shouting “Tennis racket! Tennis racket! You need a tennis racket!”
Duran turned his head toward the fan and replied: “Shut up,” followed by a curse word and the slur.
Duran issued an apology through the team Sunday darkness, saying he “used a truly horrific word” and felt “awful.”
Standing in the middle of the clubhouse before he answered questions Monday, Duran started by apologizing to fans that he said reached out to him and said: “they were unhappy in me.”
“I’m sorry for my deeds, and I’m going to work on being better,” the 27-year-old outfielder said.
“We all love Jarren,” teammate Rob Refsnyder said after hitting a walk-off unattached in Boston's 5-4, 10-inning win over Texas on Monday night