David Baggs never thought he would see his Boston Red Sox embrace the LGBT muny the way has. Now he's addg his voice to the growg chos of out gay people profsnal sports.
Contents:
- RED SOX GREAT KEV YOILIS SAYS HE HOP ANY GAY TEAMMAT KNEW HE WOULD BE THEIR RNER
- RED SOX ARE G AN INIC GAY POP ANTHEM AS THEIR RALLYG CRY
- RED SOX'S MATT DERMODY REGRETS 'HURTFUL' 2021 ANTI-GAY TWEET
- GAY BOSTON RED SOX EXECUTIVE MOVED TO E OUT BY VIS OM BILLY BEAN
RED SOX GREAT KEV YOILIS SAYS HE HOP ANY GAY TEAMMAT KNEW HE WOULD BE THEIR RNER
The Red Sox are g the inic gay pop anthem as their rallyg cry * gay red sox *
For this proud gay man and lifelong Red Sox fan, ’s one of the surefire harbgers of summer. Patrick’s Day Para, and anizers tried to ban the group of gay and transgenr ary veterans om marchg aga 2017, only to reverse urse.
Former NBA center Jason Colls, who two months earlier beme the first active male athlete to e out as gay one of the major pro sports leagu, threw out the first pch. MLB’s cisn to name Billy Bean as s Ambassador for Incln has helped change the culture around the league, and make LGBTQ clivy a prry, even though there are still no active openly gay players.
Boston Red Sox great Kev Yoilis is pretty certa he played wh gay teammate durg his 11-year big league reer. Earlier this year, the Red Sox released prospect Brett Netzer after he went on a homophobic Twter spree. While Yoilis retired om MLB 2013 — jt before champng LGBTQ beme mon practice for sports teams — the World Seri champn and three-time All-Star remembers engagg some nversatns wh other players about gay issu.
RED SOX ARE G AN INIC GAY POP ANTHEM AS THEIR RALLYG CRY
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay red sox *
The right-hanr said he wants LGBTQ people to feel wele, but don’t want to “enurage” our behavr or “liftyle” — ditg he thks beg gay is a choice. Adams equated beg gay to pre-maral sex, which is a fe parison, except for one big difference: you n choose to have pre-martial sex. You n’t choose to be gay.
Prr to the start of the game, the Red Sox will have New Hampshire’s Gay men’s Chos sg the Natnal Anthem while members of OUTVETS bear flags. Former Red Sox pcher Matt Dermody was released om the team June after one spot start, shortly after an old tweet surfaced which he wrote that “homosexuals will not her the kgdom of God. “I thk durg sprg trag wh my meetg wh the GM Chaim Bloom, was obv I’m not a homophobe, ” Dermody said.
“In the tweet, a lot of people ll homophobic, but ’s as far om homophobic as possible. This postseason, they’ve adopted an stantly regnizable gay pop anthem as their rallyg cry.
RED SOX'S MATT DERMODY REGRETS 'HURTFUL' 2021 ANTI-GAY TWEET
Our rint baseball aficnado Ken Schultz has already vered how the gays were unsurprisgly ahead of the curve on Kiké Hernánz, this year’s Mr. Stt, who is openly gay, threw out at the first pch at Fenway prr to Game 4 of the Amerin League Champnship Seri. An out gay pop star is now synonymo wh one of the most storied anchis baseball.
ESPN News ServicJun 8, 2023, 06:48 PM ETCLEVELAND -- The Boston Red Sox believe they took the proper steps after learng about an anti-gay tweet ma by pcher Matt Dermody two years ago.
GAY BOSTON RED SOX EXECUTIVE MOVED TO E OUT BY VIS OM BILLY BEAN
Anrson Comas g out publicly as gay this week wh the full support of the Whe Sox anizatn is the latt example of the great thgs that n happen when players like Casas and Person signal that ’s OK to be yourself wh a baseball clubhoe.
McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.
It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.