45 Trailblazers Who Changed The World, From Pride 1969 To Pride 2014

From: Queerty

Dave Pallone

Dave Pallone was a Major League Baseball umpire for 10 years. In 1989, he was outed by the New York Post. A year later, he published a memoir, Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball, about his experiences as a gay man in MLB. In 2013, he became one of the first inductees to the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.