Over the past decade, I have watched with bated breath as our community fought to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that would finally allow the members of our armed forces who happen to be gay or lesbian to be honest about who they are as they fight courageously for our freedom. One of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Billy Bean’
Outsports It Gets Better: Billy Bean, Major League Baseball player
The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project™ is from Billy Bean, who played baseball with the Tigers, Dodgers and Padres from 1987-95. Bean is a gay sports pioneer, becoming one of the few pro athletes who publicly came out. I met Billy this weekend and we did a terrific interview [...]
Brad Pitt does not play gay Billy Bean in “Moneyball,” he plays straight Billy Beane
Billy Bean and Billy Beane could not be more different. Yet they also have a lot in common. For many people, though, confusion reigns. I got this text a couple of days ago. “Hey Billy, I’m sitting here watching a movie called “Moneyball” with Brad Pitt. Is he you?” Sigh. Even my own friends are [...]
Moment #7: Major Leaguer Billy Bean comes out; still regrets retiring early
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1999: A restaurant review in the Miami Herald changed Billy Bean’s life. The article, in an oh-by-the-way fashion, mentioned that Bean and his partner in the restaurant were also partners in life. The item caught the attention of the New York [...]
Radio show on homophobia in sports
KCRW in Santa Monica is having a half-hour show devoted to homophobia in sports on its “Politics of Culture” show, airing live online Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. It sounds like an interesting show and a terrific panel, with host Diana Nyad and her guests Billy Bean (out ex-big leaguer), Pat Griffin (one of our [...]
Billy Bean does the D-List
This week’s episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List featured out former MLB player Billy Bean in his now long-time career of real estate agent. In between hobnobbing with Rosie O’Donnell and Gloria Estefan, Bean showed Griffin some incredibly expensive real estate in Miami. The climax of the episode came when Griffin made [...]
Joe Torre hopes players will come out
While Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre is getting ripped to shreds by the New York media for some things he said in his new book, he gave gay people something to cheer about in an interview he did on Larry King Live last week: Ventura, Calif., Viewer: Billy Bean, after he retired, he announced [...]