How baseball played val role for gay jock turned doc g out - Outsports

Contents:

• BASEBALL PLAYED VAL ROLE FOR GAY JOCK TURNED DOC HIS G OUT
• 565: DR. BRAD SCHAEFFER – HE’S A BRO, ATHLETE, DOCTOR WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY!
• FRANK SCHAEFFER ON GAYS, EX-GAYS & THE RELIG RIGHT

BASEBALL PLAYED VAL ROLE FOR GAY JOCK TURNED DOC HIS G OUT

This Philly kid wanted to throw right, bat right, be a Christian, play for the Philli and never ever be gay. At the same time that I was a hard-chargg jock, I was fightg my ternal battl of fulfillg that last le of my imagary baseball rd: Don’t ever, ever be gay. Beg gay fely was not ol when I was growg up and seemed every other word out of a kid’s mouth was “that’s gay.

” The nnotatn of gay was always negative, lame and stupid. If you would trip when nng to first base, you’re gay. If you stck out, you’re gay.

565: DR. BRAD SCHAEFFER – HE’S A BRO, ATHLETE, DOCTOR WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY!

If you gave another guy a pliment, make sure you say “no homo, ” bee God forbid we would pliment each other.

To this day, I never e gay slurs and rrect anyone who them my prence. The world of beg a Christian athlete allowed me to keep my ternal battl where they belonged and was able to “pray the gay away. While studyg to bee a doctor and tryg to be the bt hband I uld be, I was tormented by thoughts such as “Was I gay?

This sight led me to stg down wh my dad at a Philli game and, after many Bud Lights, tellg him that I was gay. I did not f the stereotype of what society views as a gay man and my father was pretty floored. I was born this way and I wish that I didn’t have the stggl of worryg if I was gay, worryg if I was gog to Hell, worryg about the jock rhetoric, worryg about my acceptance my small Christian world.

FRANK SCHAEFFER ON GAYS, EX-GAYS & THE RELIG RIGHT

I am a gay jock doc and am nstantly evolvg, and am still a huge Philli fan.

My updated baseball rd now reads: Bats right, throws right, gay and proud.