White Sox Minor Leaguer Anderson Comas Announces He Is Gay

“Anderson first shared his news with us last year,” Chris Getz, Chicago’s assistant general manager for player development, said in the statement. “And I was very pleased that he was comfortable sharing with us in player development.

“I also was happy at the reaction across the organization, which as you would expect was to support, help and congratulate a teammate. With his social media post today, we all are so proud of Anderson and that he is comfortable sharing such an important personal part of his life so openly.”

No major leaguers have revealed publicly, while they were active players, that they were gay. But Glenn Burke, a rising star with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1970s, was known to be gay by many of his teammates. Burke was badly mistreated by multiple teams in the majors, including the Dodgers, and died of complications from AIDS in 1995. The Dodgers, acknowledging that mistreatment, celebrated Burke’s life at their annual Pride Night last summer.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/sports/baseball/anderson-comas-chicago-white-sox.html