Monday, March 12, 2018

Ambassador for Inclusion

In 2014, Billy Bean was appointed as Major League Baseball’s first Ambassador for Inclusion.  His role is to “provide guidance and training related to efforts to support those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community throughout Major League Baseball.”  In other words, he will help gay baseball players transition and be accepted by fans, teammates, and executives.  He will be a liaison on how to come out and how to deal with any possible backlash.

Why Billy Bean?  He was the second MLB player to come out as gay, and the and first to do so while still actively playing.

But I have to say that I was honestly shocked to find out this information.  We actually need a full-time person whose entire role is to help people come out of the closet?  And who is paying for this?  The fans.  I’m so glad that I stopped supporting MLB about 15 years ago…

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