Glenn Burke
American baseball player (1952-1995)
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Updated 2026-06-18
Glenn Lawrence Burke was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. He was the first MLB player to come out as gay, announcing it in 1982 after he retired.
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