Glenn Burke played in his last MLB game just over three weeks prior to the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
Burke, an Oakland native who became the first former MLB player to come out as gay in 1982, went 0-for-5 on June 4, 1979 against Cleveland in what would be his final appearance for the A's. Twenty-four days later marked the 10th anniversary of a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, that prompted days of violent demonstrations from nearby members of the LGBTQ community fed up with the marginalization and criminalization by police.