Glenn Burke
Baseball Player
1952 – 1995
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Who was Glenn Burke?
Glenn Lawrence Burke was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979.
Burke was the first and as of 2013 the only Major League Baseball player known to have acknowledged his homosexuality to teammates and team owners during his professional career and the first to publicly acknowledge it. He died from AIDS-related causes in 1995.
"They can't ever say now that a gay man can't play in the majors, because I'm a gay man and I made it." – Glenn Burke
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- Born
- Nov 16, 1952
Oakland - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Berkeley High School
- Lived in
- Oakland
- Died
- May 30, 1995
San Leandro
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on July 23, 2013
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