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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. 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.

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

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 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.

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

’”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?

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.

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

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.

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.

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.

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

“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. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. ) Adame, an openly gay meteorologist who had worked at Spectm News NY1 sce 2007, admted an Instagram post shared September that he had secretly appeared and performed on an adult vio webse for other men while he was employed at the TV statn.

A gay former meteorologist for a top New York Cy televisn statn, whom management fired for appearg nu live streams durg his private time, has broken his Monday, Erick Adame took to Instagram to addrs the sndal om last September, when he announced that he was fired om Spectm's NY1 statn bee he had appeared sexually explic, nsensual vios on an adult webse. Is Erick Matthews implied to be gay? Fox News ntributor Erick Erickson suggted that people might not be born gay, pared homosexualy to alholism and adultery, and warned that gay people who don't repent won't be “saved on the last day.

In a June 20 blog post for, Erickson exprsed his support for Republin Texas Governor Rick Perry, who was cricized last week after parg homosexualy to alholism. In his post, Erickson claimed that the science around sexual orientatn wasn't settled, warng gay people not to “give ” to their temptatns and repent for their homosexualy orr to be “saved”:.

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

While most of my generatn is pretty acceptg of the ia that a person n be born gay, there is no settled science on the matter.