Upcoming Series
on Glenn Burke
Netfl ix is moving ahead with a series about the late Glenn Burke.
BY MATT TRACY
To this day, the late former
Dodgers and Athletics
player Glenn
Burke is the most pivotal
fi gure in LGBTQ baseball history.
Now he’s fi nally going to get a
moment in the sun.
The out gay former outfi elder,
who was largely out to his teammates
in the 1970s before homophobia
derailed his career and
his life, will be featured in a Netfl ix
series, “Outfi elder,” led by out gay
fi lmmaker Ryan Murphy, according
to Deadline. Famed actress
Jamie Lee Curtis, whose child is
transgender, is also expected to
play a producing role in the forthcoming
series and owns the rights
to the project.
“Ryan is producing a project
I’ve been trying to get made as a
producer for over 10 years,” Curtis
told Deadline, which also reported
that Robert O’Hara is writing the
series.
While still in the early stages,
the series will seek to amplify the
story of a man who has received
little credit for his historic contributions
to the sport of baseball —
and sport in general. Burke’s status
as an out gay man in a hostile
environment led him to face anti-
LGBTQ slurs from one of his managers,
Billy Martin, and he had a
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sour relationship with legendary
Dodgers skipper Tommy Lasorda,
who passed away earlier this year,
after growing close to his gay son.
Burke would also visit gay bars
during his playing career — a bold
move in a previous era given that
even in the modern era, Major
League Baseball does not have an
out player.
But Burke also made a difference
in a way that many athletes
would never realize. When celebrating
a home run by teammate
Dusty Baker — now the manager
of the World Series-bound Houston
Astros — he gave Baker what
is now known as a high-fi ve, which
established a new way of tradition
when it came to celebrating success
on the fi eld.
The relentless homophobia,
however, drove Burke from baseball
— and he would never fully
recover after suffering from homelessness,
poor health, and other
woes. Shortly before dying of complications
from AIDS in 1995, he
published an autobiography, “Out
at Home,” in which he recalled that
former Dodgers general manager
Al Campanis offered to pay for
Burke’s honeymoon if he would
simply marry a woman.
In the end, Burke wrote, “prejudice
just won out.”
Burke planned 225 games with
the Dodgers and Athletics.
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