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.
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THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
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The Met’s New Mic Director Is the First to Be Openly Gay. Nézet-Ségu is openly gay. Sce when do beg gay the arts unt as news?
Well, acrdg to the Tim’ Zachary Woolfe (who, full disclosure, I have wrten for the past), the abily to fiercely work a baton wh queer pri has, until only recently, been an elive pipe dream for those gay men helmg the world’s top-tier orchtras. The classil mic world may be crawlg wh queens, Woolfe explas, but “’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay. And so, to palize on Nézet-Ségu’s willgns to live out loud, the Gray Lady is throwg him a gay tilln.
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Rather than simply actg like the secrecy of high-profile gay men Manhattan was a random phenomenon, a story such as Woolfe’s uld jt as well have addrsed the mic prs’s past plicy makg homosexualy a secret the first place.