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Former Yankee Employee Claims Derek Jeter And Jorge Posada Were Gay
A new book, titled “Abused by the New York Yankees,” alleges that Baseball legends Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada engaged in sexual relations during their first season. According to the 500-page tell-all, former Yankees assistant equipment manager Paul Priore and co-writer Gary Toushek claim both Jeter and Posada engaged in homosexual action in the clubhouse sauna at the end of their first season with the team. He also claims that Jeter and Posada allowed Priore to execute oral sex on them in arrange to keep him quiet.
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Back in 1997, Priore was fired because, according to him, he is HIV positive. Even though the Yankees and New York State courts own officially denounced those claims, the former employee has no qualms about exposing all the stained laundry from the locker room in his newly released tell-all.
Deep within the pages, Priore reveals that Bob Wickman, Jeff Nelson, and Mariano Rivera tried to sexually assault Priore with a baseball bat and Gerald Williams had sex with an underage concession position wor
Yankees one of four MLB teams to never have held LGBT pride night
In a city acknowledged for its happy hour customs, summer can be an even better time to take superiority of post-work drink and bite deals. Interns are in town, summer Fridays are in packed swing, and patios and rooftops are aplenty. Here are a few prime, non-comprehensive spots for an afternoon deal with besties, colleagues, and new connections.
Alfreda. Dupont’s Alfreda, a tribute to the chef’s grandmother, offers relaxed pizza and traditional Italian eats. The happy hour runs Monday-Friday 4-6 p.m., featuring $8 spritzes and BOGO pizzas. Few do spritzes like the Italians, and Alfreda leans in on five kinds plus one N/A spritz; our go-to is the rose and mezcal with grapefruit or the locally made Don Ciccio limoncello spritz with basil.
Lyle’s. Especially leaning into the spritz side of summer is at Lyle’s, fully embracing the fizzy ephemera of the season with the Summer of Spritz. The Dupont Circle hotel restaurant imagines cocktails from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Spritzes feature limoncello and vinho verde. For those that smash Lyle’s every week during the spritz special—and get a literal stamp on Ly
Yankees set to be only MLB team not to host LGBTQ Pride Night
When the New York Mets held their first LGBTQ Celebration Night in August 2016, fans waved rainbow flags in the stadium, the Lesbian and Lgbtq+ Big Apple Corps Marching Band performed, Citi Field’s colossal Coca-Cola sign was lit up in rainbow colors and the Kiss Cam caught several queer smooches throughout the game. In keeping with tradition, the team honored a veteran at the game, and for that first Movement Night, the Mets honored a homosexual Army vet.
Nearly two years later, however, the Mets’ hometown rivals — the New York Yankees — have yet to host a Pride Night of their own, In fact, the Yankees are currently the only Major League Baseball team that has neither had a Pride Late hours nor has one scheduled.
When the Los Angeles Angels announced earlier this week their plans to host an LGBTQ-themed night in June 2019, the Yankees were left as the lone Identity festival Night holdout among the MLB’s 30 teams.
“It's going to be real firm to look in the mirror and see themselves as the only team in Major League Baseball that is not holding a Pride Night,” said David Kilmnick, CEO of the LGBT Network, a Recent York-based nonprofit.
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The New York Yankees are known for standing out from the rest of the league. But this time, the 27-time Planet Series champions are taking some heat for it. They could soon develop the only Major League Baseball team not to hold an LGBTQ Event Night event.
Twenty-four of the MLB's 30 teams are set to hold homosexual pride celebrations this season and a total of 28 teams have held such events at some point. This week, Forbes reported the Los Angeles Angels will join the ranks by holding a Pride Night in June 2019. That would abandon the Yankees as the lone holdout.
"Pride Nights are really important to present the LGBTQ community that they are just as welcome as anyone else," New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay man to hold that job and noted Red Sox fan, told CBS News in a statement. "The Yankees are one of the most famous sporting teams in the world. They should be leading by example."
"Let's be honest — for a long day the world of sports felt closed off to gay people. Even now there are very scant openly gay professional athletes," he added.
The Yankees contain previously participated in GLAAD's Soul Day Campaign, which is organized by the grou