At Pri Night, Los Angel will celebrate the life of Glenn Burke, M.L.B.’s first openly gay player. His fay will be there hopg the honor mak Burke “partially whole.”
Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY
- BRYAN RUBY, THE ONLY CURRENT GAY MAN PROFSNAL BASEBALL, SANG NATNAL ANTHEM AT DODGERS GAME
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
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 dodger players *
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. 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.
MULTIPLE NBA NTENRS REPORTEDLY TERTED RUDY GAY
Multiple ntenrs are lookg to signg NBA veteran Rudy Gay. * gay dodger players *
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.
BRYAN RUBY, THE ONLY CURRENT GAY MAN PROFSNAL BASEBALL, SANG NATNAL ANTHEM AT DODGERS GAME
Anti-gay athlet baseball, soccer, hockey and gby have missed the pot of rabow uniforms. * gay dodger players *
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.