Cartoonist explas why his gay baseball player stays the closet - Outsports

Contents:

• BASEBALL PLAYED VAL ROLE FOR GAY JOCK TURNED DOC HIS G OUT
• BRAD GAY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• CARTOONIST EXPLAS WHY HIS GAY BASEBALL PLAYER STAYS THE CLOSET

BASEBALL PLAYED VAL ROLE FOR GAY JOCK TURNED DOC HIS G OUT

This Philly kid wanted to throw right, bat right, be a Christian, play for the Philli and never ever be gay. At the same time that I was a hard-chargg jock, I was fightg my ternal battl of fulfillg that last le of my imagary baseball rd: Don’t ever, ever be gay.

BRAD GAY

Beg gay fely was not ol when I was growg up and seemed every other word out of a kid’s mouth was “that’s gay.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

” The nnotatn of gay was always negative, lame and stupid. If you would trip when nng to first base, you’re gay. If you stck out, you’re gay.

CARTOONIST EXPLAS WHY HIS GAY BASEBALL PLAYER STAYS THE CLOSET

If you gave another guy a pliment, make sure you say “no homo, ” bee God forbid we would pliment each other. To this day, I never e gay slurs and rrect anyone who them my prence. The world of beg a Christian athlete allowed me to keep my ternal battl where they belonged and was able to “pray the gay away.

While studyg to bee a doctor and tryg to be the bt hband I uld be, I was tormented by thoughts such as “Was I gay? This sight led me to stg down wh my dad at a Philli game and, after many Bud Lights, tellg him that I was gay. I did not f the stereotype of what society views as a gay man and my father was pretty floored.

I was born this way and I wish that I didn’t have the stggl of worryg if I was gay, worryg if I was gog to Hell, worryg about the jock rhetoric, worryg about my acceptance my small Christian world. I am a gay jock doc and am nstantly evolvg, and am still a huge Philli fan. My updated baseball rd now reads: Bats right, throws right, gay and proud.