The high-five is one of the most common male rituals in the world. Nothing's more macho than giving a buddy a high five after a manly conquest right? Well, it'll surprise many to learn that the man who is credited with giving the very first high five on record was gay!
Glenn Burke was a second season player for the Dodgers. One time late in the 1977 season, he was on plate in the batting order following Dusty Baker, who had just hit his 30th home run and was coming around to home plate. When Baker was passing past him, Burke lifted his hand, Baker did the same and their hands slapped. This was the very first high five on record!
Burke retired early in 1982 and was the first major league baseball player to openly declare his homosexuality. He is remembered by the gay community as a groundbreaking figure, who was 'athletic, clean cut, masculine. He was everything that we wanted to prove to the world that we could be."
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Glenn Burke was a second season player for the Dodgers. One time late in the 1977 season, he was on plate in the batting order following Dusty Baker, who had just hit his 30th home run and was coming around to home plate. When Baker was passing past him, Burke lifted his hand, Baker did the same and their hands slapped. This was the very first high five on record!
Burke retired early in 1982 and was the first major league baseball player to openly declare his homosexuality. He is remembered by the gay community as a groundbreaking figure, who was 'athletic, clean cut, masculine. He was everything that we wanted to prove to the world that we could be."
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Ok so as you know we have gay parades from time to time we aren't trying to flaunt that we are gay, no we are trying to make equality happen. I'm mean we are "supposedly" all equal right? Then how come some people cannot marry the person they love, eh? I tell you why because people cannot accept change. Anyway back to parades we do it to try and show that we want our rights I mean since when can the government tell me who I can and can't marry it's my life not theirs. Gay parades are really the only thing we can use to get our message across to people. We live in an unfair country but we can always change cange that with one person at a time, one acceptance, and parade. We can all help make that change anyone can really we just do it through parades