Flashback: 'That '70s Show's Very Special Gay Episo Do Not Age Well

Contents:

• GAY FORMER WEATHERMAN SAYS ONLE 'PREDATORS' ARE EXPLOG HIM
• FOX CONTRIBUTOR ERICK ERICKSON: GAY PEOPLE NEED TO “OVERE” THE “STGGLE” OF HOMOSEXUALY
• 'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
• ERICK SERMON DISMISS GAY RUMORS, SAYS THERE WILL NEVER BE OPENLY GAY RAPPERS
• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
• ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
• FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

GAY FORMER WEATHERMAN SAYS ONLE 'PREDATORS' ARE EXPLOG HIM

Darien Kirk and Erik Gay were dicted 2020 on charg of tamperg wh a ernment rerd wh the tent to harm or d another. The state ntends that Kirk and Gay lied about checkg on 28-year-old Javonte Myers, an mate who later died his cell. The Tarrant County Medil Examer's Office lists Myers’ e of ath as a seizure ’ mother, Sondrea Miller, is also sug Kirk, Gay and the unty on the same grounds as the crimal se.

FOX CONTRIBUTOR ERICK ERICKSON: GAY PEOPLE NEED TO “OVERE” THE “STGGLE” OF HOMOSEXUALY

The jail knew about Myers’ seizure disorr and other physil and mental health issu, the lawsu stat, and blam the jailers’ "liberate difference” for Myers' May 17, the Tarrant County Commissners Court voted unanimoly to pay lawyers to fend Kirk and Gay that lawsu. Kirk and Gay both no longer work for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, spokperson Robbie Hoy said an said he uld not nfirm the manner of their parture, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported 2021 that Gay was fired after an vtigatn, and Kirk rigned before the vtigatn was the crimal s and the lawsu agast Kirk and Gay are ongog, and the oute of one uld end up fluencg the other, Kwok said. A gay meteorologist was termated om his posn at a New York Cy news statn for performg on an adult webm se -- and now, he's takg legal Adame, an Emmy-nomated meteorologist who, up until recently, was workg for Spectm News NY1, took to Instagram to issue a public apology and expla the suatn to his followers.

"I don't apologize for beg openly gay or for beg sex-posive -- those are gifts and I have no shame about them. 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.

'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST

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 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.

ERICK SERMON DISMISS GAY RUMORS, SAYS THERE WILL NEVER BE OPENLY GAY RAPPERS

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 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.

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?

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

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.

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.

‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.