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Contents:
- TORONTO BLUE JAYS SAY BASEBALL READY FOR OPENLY GAY PLAYER
- 'LOVE HAS FINALLY SET ME FREE': EX-BLUE JAYS PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
- FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
- GAY TORONTO
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TORONTO BLUE JAYS SAY BASEBALL READY FOR OPENLY GAY PLAYER
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 baseball toronto *
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That year, they ved other gay athlet to a game September, but drew prottors who even lnched “” to object to their vatn. While homophobia and support for anti-LGBTQ movements have been monplace sports, the tis are now changg. Lears the sport are fightg to not only clu, but make baseball welg to gay and trans people.
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'LOVE HAS FINALLY SET ME FREE': EX-BLUE JAYS PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
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Last season, Thom Brennaman ed an anti-gay slur while workg as a play-by-play mentator for the Ccnati Reds. The creator of the high-five was not only a baseball player, but a gay baseball player.
That player, Glenn Burke, was the first gay player who was out to his teammat and management Major League Baseball. ” (The elr Lasorda nied his son was gay to the end of his life, even after his son died of plitns om AIDS 1991.
FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE PCHER T.J. HOE OUT AS GAY
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While ’s far om plete retributn for a league where homophobia was accepted for s and harmed several people (like Lenny Dykstra, who has openly admted to hirg private vtigators to blackmail gay umpir), ’s a sign of progrs. It was only eight years ago that former Major League pcher Mark Knudson wrote, “ remas the bt optn for any homosexual athlete a team sport to keep his orientatn private” bee they’ll evably bee attracted to their teammat. 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.
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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. 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. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok. ’”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.
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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 was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right? That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.
“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. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. 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.