Manifto — Gay Baseball™️

Contents:

• STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'
• TONY-WNG GAY BASEBALL PLAY TAKE ME OUT TO OPEN ON BROADWAY APRIL 2021
• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
• WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH THAT GAY BASEBALL SHOW
• GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT
• GAY BASEBALL™
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'

For all the bety of a well-executed h and n and the ceremony of a home n, there is also the off-the-field snipg, a hateful Twter rant and an ocsnal work one hand, Take Me Out is the story of Mason Marzac (aka Marz, played by Jse Tyler Fergon), a gay fancial adviser whose volvement the re cint has led him, to fall love wh the game. Avery on Grey's Anatomy, who makg his Broadway but), the gay superstar and a person of lor who out the closet and the mayhem that rults.

Stori on tribalism, homophobia, hate speech hate crim lead the daily news feed, not to mentn the Twtersphere.

Send Stage Theater’s planned productn of Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-wng play about a gay baseball player and the reactn to him g out, Take Me Out, which had been postponed due to the current Broadway spensn, will e to Broadway next year wh performanc begng the week of March 22nd 2021 at Send Stage’s Hay Theater (240 Wt 44th Street, New York). Facg some hostile teammat and ght iendships, Darren is forced to ntend wh the challeng of beg a gay person of lor wh the nf of a classic Amerin stutn.

TONY-WNG GAY BASEBALL PLAY TAKE ME OUT TO OPEN ON BROADWAY APRIL 2021

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GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

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WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH THAT GAY BASEBALL SHOW

In the drama, which — be forewarned — has a lot of full-ontal male nudy, the center fielr Darren Lemmg (Jse Williams) of a fictnal team lled the Empir abptly out as gay to his fellow players and the prs. But when a bigot pcher, Shane Mungt (Michael Oberholtzer), jos the Empir and starts spewg racist and anti-gay slurs on TV, the locker room mood cmbl. Mason, nicknamed “Mars”, meanwhile, is Darren’s gay bs manager, who tak a sudn tert baseball when his client out.

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.

GLENN BURKE, 1ST OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYER, IS SHUNNED NO MORE — 40 YEARS AFTER G OUT

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 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.

GAY BASEBALL™

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.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

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.

HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT

”)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. 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. That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

“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.

The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.