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.
Contents:
- DEEP BLUE: GAY CURAO SCUBA DIVG TRIP
- GAY DIVE
- THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
- DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS
- THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
- USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS
- JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED
- GAY TO Z POOL PARTY
- PRISTE PAL: GAY SCUBA DIVG VATN
- DIVE!! ANIME REVIEW EPISO 4 & 5: (KD OF GAY) TENSNS BUILDG
- GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
DEEP BLUE: GAY CURAO SCUBA DIVG TRIP
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GAY DIVE
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THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
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DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS
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THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
Gay Olympic role mols such as Atralian Matthew Mcham and England's Tom Daley have led the way for Anton Down-Jenks to bee the first diver * dive gay *
Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town. 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 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. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.
USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS
High Dive is a missn The Ballad of Gay Tony given to the protagonist Luis Lopez by Yuf Amir. In orr to plete the missn the player mt: Go to Rotterdam Tower. Take the elevator to the top of the tower. Go and meet Ahmed. Chase Ahmed up the Tower. You have the parachute, now jump... * dive gay *
’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.
Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.
JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED
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The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.
GAY TO Z POOL PARTY
Learn about gay and lbian scuba clubs around the world who support Divg For Life (DFL) - a week of LGBTQ SCUBA, fundraisg and mrarie. * dive gay *
“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.
3 m readGay Olympic role mols such as Atralian Matthew Mcham and England’s Tom Daley have led the way for Anton Down-Jenks to bee the first diver to reprent New Zealand at an Olympic Gam sce 1984 and be open about beg gay as the Tokyo Olympics Gam opened overnight.
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PRISTE PAL: GAY SCUBA DIVG VATN
Juli’, the long-tablished gay dive bar of Greenwich Village that was the se of the Mattache Society’s Sip-In 1966, has been signated by the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn. * dive gay *
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GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
From a bumpg bar Bloomgton, Indiana to gay days and nights the Florida's theme park pal, wele to the Uned Stat of queer Ameri. * dive gay *
The cy’s olst ntually operatg gay bar, wh s stuc-petalled exterr and permanent perfume of sizzlg burger fat, still fills up every night.
” The days, the doors open at four (noon on the weekends) and there are still a few hags but also boppg twks explorg the cy via TikTok among the grayg fixtur, many wh rent-stabilized apartments — the Village havg turned om gay ghetto to bankers’ bnch zone long ago. ” On April 21, three gay men, members of the gay activist anizatn the Mattache Society (namake of the parti n by John Cameron Mchell), protted State Liquor Authory guidance agast servg homosexuals by openly clarg themselv and orrg drks ont of a journalist and photographer.
Marks Place, which posted a sign readg “IF YOU ARE GAY, PLEASE GO AWAY, ” was unfortunately closed; the manager of the Howard Johnson’s on Sixth Avenue, well-known as a pickup spot, unhatgly brought them three bourbons. It has been a long time sce so-lled viat were refed service at Juli’, or for that matter any other bar this great gay cy, but the regnn is still a happy one.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Before settled as a gay landmark, was a hangout for newsmen like Walter Wchell, and the tabloid-photographer-tr Weegee ed to pick up msag and mail there the 1940s.
Buford and her hband, a straight uple, may have seemed unlikely to renew one of the cy’s queer stutns, but their tert was ially practil: Eugene Buford had worked bar secury before beg an owner, and gay bars offered bs wh fewer fights than their straight unterparts. “After hearg the stori and really gettg to know the muny, ” she says, “I told them, ‘Listen, as long as I’m here, this will always be Juli’ and will always be a gay bar. In tth, gay roo is a natnwi phenomenon, but Arizona is as good a place as any to squeeze to your tightt pair of Levi jeans and give the Cowboy liftyle a try.
The 34th Annual Arizona Gay Roo happens Phoenix Febary; the World Gay Roo Fals happen October Sttsdale; and then there’s queer untry wtern bars Phoenix cludg Charlie’s, the Cash Nightclub and Lounge, and Lat-flavored nightclub Karamba (which hosts ocsnal wboy nights). A small mounta town the middle of the Ozarks that is guard over by a statue of Christ mak for an unlikely gay mec, but Eureka Sprgs is no ordary hamlet. A hangout for hippi, homos and honeymooners (check out the abundance of hotel spa su), this pretty Victorian town boasts LGBTQIA-owned bars, eateri, shops and even a gay rort.