Alex Reimer is a journalist, broadster, flag football fan and an out gay man. Startg today, he is also Outsports Deputy Managg Edor.
Contents:
- A CHAT WH ALEX REIMER, THE GAY SPORTSWRER WHO’S NOW PUTY MANAGG EDOR AT OUTSPORTS
- WHEN THIS SPORTS WRER SAID HE’S GAY, RAD HOSTS GOT MAD AT HIM FOR BURYG THE LEAD
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY SPORTS TALK RAD
- TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
A CHAT WH ALEX REIMER, THE GAY SPORTSWRER WHO’S NOW PUTY MANAGG EDOR AT OUTSPORTS
Alex Reimer nnects wh another gay sports talk guy, and they talk about their experienc the high-prsure talk rad world. * alex reimer gay *
When I applied to work for Outsports, I wrote my ver letter that I’ve always known two thgs about myself: I’m gay, and love wrg about sports. I’m movg onto a full-time role at Queerty, and will be wrg about gay athlet and celebri every day. But more importantly, I’ve better learned who I am as a gay man.
Instead, I will remember disverg a gay muny sports that I didn’t know existed. For much of my life, I thought the ia of beg a sports fan and gay man were ngo. But then I met somebody like UCLA volleyball ach Alfie Reft, who disvered his love for volleyball playg the sport at a Wt Hollywood gym wh an eclectic group of gays.
WHEN THIS SPORTS WRER SAID HE’S GAY, RAD HOSTS GOT MAD AT HIM FOR BURYG THE LEAD
Right om the get-go, the out gay sportswrer was on the hot seat, fieldg tough qutns like, “Are the Patrts fished?
Boston-based sports wrer Alex Reimer cid to e out publicly as gay Wednday durg a spot on WEEI’s “Kirk & Callahan” show. Reimer did reveal Wednday that not only do he have a csh on Jt Bieber, he also plays the Boston gay flag football league.
WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY SPORTS TALK RAD
Wh out gay guys sports like Buck, LZ Granrson, Izzy Gutierrez, Chuck Culpepper, Jared Max and others, he’s good pany. That meant publicly g out as gay, so I uld be unburned to share the timate tails of my life to the listeners. On this week’s edn of “The Sports Kiki, ” I was granted the rare opportuny to nnect wh another gay sports talk guy, Ben Livgston.
TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
” We both spoke liberally on the air about our gay liv, whout obftg many of the tails.
“I wanted me talkg about beg gay on the rad to be jt like when people talk about beg straight, ” Livgston told me. I was aaid at first that if I talked about thgs germane to beg gay, would be a turn off to the listeners.