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. ” The nnotatn of gay was always negative, lame and stupid.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

If you would trip when nng to first base, you’re gay. If you stck out, you’re gay.

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.

CARTOONIST EXPLAS WHY HIS GAY BASEBALL PLAYER STAYS THE CLOSET

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.