Back in 2004, our group discussed Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, "Take Me Out," about a gay major-leaguer who comes out to his team and the public. "Take Me Out" won multiple Tony Awards, both in its original 2002 run and the 2022 revival.
The playwright passed away on July 4 at the age of 67. Although he is probably best-known for "Take Me Out," he had more than 30 plays produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class.
Strangely, neither his New York Times obituary nor the one in the Washington Post spells out that Greenberg was gay, even though that was widely known. But both note that several of his plays featured gay characters and themes.
I have tonight's All-Star game on in the background as I write this, and it occurs to me that more than 20 years after "Take Me Out" premiered, no major-league baseball player has yet come out as gay. As the saying goes, sometimes truth really is stranger (and sadder) than fiction.
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