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.
Contents:
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
- FROM A GUY, HOW DO I ASK ANOTHER GUY OUT, PECIALLY IF I DON’T KNOW WHETHER THEIR STRAIGHT, GAY, OR BISEXUAL?
- PARENTS ASK: SHOULD WE WA FOR OUR SON TO E OUT — OR ASK HIM OURSELV IF HE’S GAY?
- I’M PRETTY SURE MY IEND IS GAY. HOW DO I ASK HIM?
- 'I THK MY BOYIEND IS GAY, HOW DO I ASK HIM?' - TIPS ON TALKG ABOUT SEXUALY WH YOUR PARTNER
- I REALIZED I WAS BISEXUAL A FEW MONTHS AGO. I LIKE THIS GUY MY CLASS BUT I’M AAID TO TELL HIM BEE I’M NOT SURE IF HE’S GAY/BI. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
- THATZ NOT OKAY: ASKG A BOYIEND IF HE'S GAY; THE FABRIC OF STRIFE
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
* ask him if he's gay *
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.
FROM A GUY, HOW DO I ASK ANOTHER GUY OUT, PECIALLY IF I DON’T KNOW WHETHER THEIR STRAIGHT, GAY, OR BISEXUAL?
There are lots of reasons why you might want to know if your iend is gay. There are some important thgs that you have to unrstand about this suatn before gog forward, however. Someone's sexualy is highly plex and highly... * ask him if he's gay *
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.
PARENTS ASK: SHOULD WE WA FOR OUR SON TO E OUT — OR ASK HIM OURSELV IF HE’S GAY?
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.
I’M PRETTY SURE MY IEND IS GAY. HOW DO I ASK HIM?
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.
'I THK MY BOYIEND IS GAY, HOW DO I ASK HIM?' - TIPS ON TALKG ABOUT SEXUALY WH YOUR PARTNER
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.
I REALIZED I WAS BISEXUAL A FEW MONTHS AGO. I LIKE THIS GUY MY CLASS BUT I’M AAID TO TELL HIM BEE I’M NOT SURE IF HE’S GAY/BI. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right? 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 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.
THATZ NOT OKAY: ASKG A BOYIEND IF HE'S GAY; THE FABRIC OF STRIFE
The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.
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 League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.