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• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• GAY NEW YORK
• NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
• GAY USA

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

Gay men? Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

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“Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.

Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer. And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.

This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. 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.

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Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for Outsports.At 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. 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.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports broadster.His father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. Whatever.”)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.

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He didn’t take them personally, but they ma him unfortable, as did the ia of g out.“I knew the stuff wasn’t directed at me,” Bach said, “but I was thkg, ‘Oh, is this how ’s gog to be for me my entire life?’”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. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me up.Still, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.ImageKnown as the FredNats, the Class A Natnals play at Virgia Cred Unn Stadium Frericksburg, Va.Cred...Michael A. Bach and Manager Jake Lowery had been enjoyg a meanrg chat when the young broadster sprang a self-nsc qutn.“I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right?’” Bach said.

That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people,” he said.His job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.ImageIn a small operatn like a Class A team, Bach teracts wh the players que regularly. Cred...Edward Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted,” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their inti.Major League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.