Gay pcher Anrson Comás says ‘now is the right time’ to e out - Outsports

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• WHE SOX PROSPECT ANRSON COMAS OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WANTS TO BE AN 'SPIRATN FOR THOSE LIKE ME'
• IN RARE MOVE, WHE SOX MOR LEAGUER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• CHIGO WHE SOX SALUTE GAY VETERANS DURG THEIR PERFECT PRI NIGHT CELEBRATNS
• CHIGO WHE SOX PROSPECT ANRSON COMáS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS'
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID

WHE SOX PROSPECT ANRSON COMAS OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WANTS TO BE AN 'SPIRATN FOR THOSE LIKE ME'

Whe Sox prospect Anrson Comas me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post on Sunday. " "I enjoy my work a lot; beg a profsnal baseball player is the bt thg that happened to me, so I jt wanna say somethg to those people that say that gay people n not be someone this life, well look at me I'm gay, and I'm a profsnal athlete, so that didn't stop me om makg my dreams e te, " Comas wrote. Baseball|In Rare Move, Whe Sox Mor Leaguer Announc He Is Gay ADVERTISEMENTAnrson Comás, a relief pcher the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, said he wanted to be “an spiratn.

”Anrson Comás began his profsnal reer as an outfielr, but he has sce swched to Lucy/Four Seam Imag, via Associated PrsAnrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, revealed on Sunday that he is gay, beg only the send active player affiliated wh a major league team to make such a public an Instagram post, Comás warned homophobic rears that the msage would not be for them and then said he is “proudly and happily part of the LGTBQ+ muny. ”No major leaguers have revealed publicly, while they were active players, that they were gay. But Glenn Burke, a risg star wh the Los Angel Dodgers the late 1970s, was known to be gay by many of his teammat.

IN RARE MOVE, WHE SOX MOR LEAGUER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

The Dodgers, acknowledgg that mistreatment, celebrated Burke’s life at their annual Pri Night last Bean, an outfielr for multiple teams om 1987 to 1995, revealed he was gay after his reer was over and 2014 was named M. ’s ambassador for addn to Burke and Bean, David Denson, a mor league first baseman the Milwkee Brewers anizatn, publicly revealed he was gay 2015.

Only a small handful of players the other major Amerin men’s sports leagu have clared that they are gay. Comás said his Instagram post that he wanted to ph back agast the belief by some that beg gay lims what a person n acplish. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 2 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mor Leaguer For Whe Sox Says He Is Gay.

CHIGO WHE SOX SALUTE GAY VETERANS DURG THEIR PERFECT PRI NIGHT CELEBRATNS

The team honored two lol gay veterans, U. 1993 there was an outright ban on service members that intified as (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng), ” he said, via the U. Their -owner, Lra Ricketts, is the first out gay owner of a major-league sports anchise the U.

From honorg gay service members to promotg LGBTQ+ artists, the team did Pri right! Along the way, he’s helpg ensure that our dream of seeg an out active gay player MLB te. Speakg to The Athletic’s Sox beat wrer Jam Fegan (lk behd a paywall), Comás sound self-assured and ntent when lookg back on his Febary Instagram post where he publicly announced that he was gay.

CHIGO WHE SOX PROSPECT ANRSON COMáS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS'

Not only is that a good ditn of his strong mental state after announcg that he is gay, also provis enuragement for other LGBTQ players who might nsir g out while still climbg the mor league ladr. “My teammat and ach that knew about me, they never changed themselv jt bee I was gay.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS OPENLY GAY: I WANT TO LIVE AND NOT BE AAID

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. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.