Center: David Denson
A few months before 20-year-old baseball player David Denson came out to his teammates, and then the media, he sent a text message to Billy Bean, Major League Baseball’s Ambassador for Inclusion and the only living former MLB player to come out.
“Hi, my name is David and I’m a player. I’m wondering if you could call me back.”
“He was very vague,” Bean told BuzzFeed News during a phone call Monday morning. “I told him I thought it was very brave for him to reach out to me. He didn’t tell me the first day that he was ready to come out, but I could tell that he had been thinking about it and he had told his parents and his sister.