Billy Bean, former MLB player and LGBTQ advocate, dies at age of 60

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Billy Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, has died at the age of 60 from leukemia.

Bean came out in 1999, a few years after his playing career ended, and he went on to become MLB's senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.