Thom Brennaman spend after utterg anti-gay slur on air | CNN

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• CCNATI REDS SPEND BROADSTER THOM BRENNAMAN AFTER HE UTTERED ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR
• BLACK MA ESPORTS ORG — [SMASH ANNOUNCER VOICE] GAY!!!

CCNATI REDS SPEND BROADSTER THOM BRENNAMAN AFTER HE UTTERED ANTI-GAY SLUR ON AIR

Smash Bros Announcer Says No Homo. The Ccnati Reds have announced the spensn of a broadster after he uttered an anti-gay slur on the air Wednday. The Reds released a statement, sayg that the “anizatn is vastated by the horrific, homophobic remark.

[smash announcer voice] GAY!!!

II mean–Yeah that’s pretty much gay stuff. You know im vted All the gays you have, right? Give more gays.

BLACK MA ESPORTS ORG — [SMASH ANNOUNCER VOICE] GAY!!!

[Star at certa someone]My gayns kda get fluenced by one du, so………[Headhands]. Palutena- She's givg you that twirl on her magil girl staff like she's right out of Sailor Moon, which was one of the gayt rtoons on televisn. Sheik - You know the myster gay that left you on read but you double and maybe triple texted anyway?

RELATED: This Black, Gay Furry Is Now the LeBron Jam of Gamg. 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.

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.