You know, one day very soon, this isn’t going to make headlines. It just won’t matter because it will be so accepted as part of the fabric of society. Today, however, it’s still important to cheer for the men and women who come out in the workplace who, because of their relative influence, can move the needle.

Today, it’s Major League Baseball’s umpire Dale Scott:

As a Major League Baseball umpire for 29 years, where going relatively unnoticed means that you are doing your job well, Dale Scott has kept a low profile.He has umpired three World Series and three All-Star Games. He recently worked as the crew chief for the National League division series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals.

But Scott, 55, now will be known as the first publicly gay active major league umpire. He has not hidden the fact that he is gay for many years, but Outsports.com made it public with an article published Tuesday.

“If this ‘revelation’ happens to touch someone, somewhere, that’s what’s important to me,” Scott said in a phone interview Tuesday. “I’m not here to wave the flag and try to say, ‘Look at me, look at me.’ I just know that’s the way it is when something like this comes out. It’s kind of against my nature, but it’s something that I thought was time.”

Scott has been in a relationship with Michael Rausch since 1986, when they met in a Portland, Ore., bar during Scott’s first off-season after reaching the majors. They were married in California last year. Baseball officials and fellow umpires have known that Scott is gay since the late 1990s, he said.

The other day I wrote about basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s outspoken comments about Ferguson and racism. In the same vein, Scott’s willingness to speak about the man he loves will probably reach a lot of people, through the sports portals that cascade into every home.