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.
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And so, to palize on Nézet-Ségu’s willgns to live out loud, the Gray Lady is throwg him a gay tilln. Gay obscury no more: Today, we learn, a Zaha Hadid “moon” sofa grac their Upper Wt Si apartment. Woolfe’s terview, which took place at an inic Wt Village gay bar, do a fe job of prentg the bourgeois and aggrsively normal ntours of a succsful gay partnership.
In a manner siar to midcentury Hollywood’s route steamrollg of s stars’ wayward queerns, the mastream mic prs has happily worked overtime to sanize the orientatns of s own gay celebs—om lifelong “bachelor” Aaron Copland onward—and Woolfe’s own paper is no exceptn.
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Closetg rarely happens a vacuum; requir a hostile culture of gay supprsn and mechanisms like the popular media to thrive. 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. Rest as an apology for past journalistic failgs, Woolfe’s article (wh s slanted “out wh the bad gay, wh the good” subtext) would then have livered an even more powerful statement than already do: The tim have changed, but so has the Tim.