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• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• U.S. BASEBALL MENTATOR SPEND FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR
• TONY-WNG GAY BASEBALL PLAY TAKE ME OUT TO OPEN ON BROADWAY APRIL 2021
• LONGTIME FOX SPORTS BROADSTER SPEND FOR GAY SLUR ON HOT MIC: ‘ONE OF THE FAG CAPALS OF THE WORLD’ (WATCH)
• BASEBALL ANNOUNCER SPEND FOR ON-AIR GAY SLUR
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

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As the only known out gay broadster profsnal baseball, Eric Bach is blazg a trail for LGBTQ sports media figur the summer game. Over the long grd of a mor league season, dog his job every day as the only gay man wh the team has led to moments of tense self-nscns and ocsnal exhstn.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people. Sudnly, Bach changed the topic, askg Lowery, “You know I’m gay, right?

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

However, Bach also admted that he’s unsure how many players the Natnals clubhoe know that he’s gay and that’s exacerbated his feelgs of self-nscns.

While has been a stggle at tim and spe there beg no other out gay announcers baseball, Bach remas rolute to break through the glass ceilg and reprent the LGBTQ muny at the hight level of broadstg. 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.

U.S. BASEBALL MENTATOR SPEND FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR

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.

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

’”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.

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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.

BASEBALL ANNOUNCER SPEND FOR ON-AIR GAY SLUR

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.

“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.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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. That dtry notor for employg no gays whatsoever: TV and broadstg?

So I talked to Jon Kliment, the voice of mor league hockey’s Elmira Enforcers, about his experienc tryg to work his way up as an out gay voice an dtry that’s sorely need of reprentatn. So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball.

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

Major League Baseball seems to be fallg behd other sports leagu acceptance of gay players. In MLB, players rerd g homophobic slurs gam. “Pri is for everyone, ” In profsnal baseball, brave players who me out as gay publicly are maly om mor leagu.