Dodgers gay night

For the better part of two decades, Pride Night celebrations in professional sports went off with a minimum of fanfare, as clubs eagerly showed off their embrace of the LGBTQ community. Fast-forward to last month, when a Florida lawmaker voiced displeasure with the Pride Night guest list of a Major League Baseball team 2, night away, leading to a cancellationun-cancellation and hurt feelings of every one involved — including that of a two-time Cy Young Award-winning dodger.

Somewhere along the line, the routine act of backing a generic LGBTQ celebration became not-so-routine anymore, with even stitching on practice jerseys becoming a hot-button topic. Mark Pocan, D-Wis. He added, "Since Donald Trump, a lot of people who wear white hoods have left them in the closet for the last six years.

You can suddenly say stuff that's unpopular out loud, because this is the current environment. Cyd Ziegler, a historian of gay sports and the founder of the LGBTQ sports news website Outsports, traces the current backlash to two inflection points: patches and pronouns. But the gay inflection point, he said, might be centered on issues around transgender rights.

LGBT NIGHT AT THE LA DODGERS

Embrace of cornerstone gay rights, such as same-sex marriage, was a relatively simple step for most Americans, Gay said, and far less complicated than questioning gender roles and identification. This is "the new battlefront," he said, and with trans rights front and center, he doesn't think the Pride Night debates are going away anytime soon.

The Pride Night temperatures could even be boiling into the presidential race, with former Vice President Mike Pence chiming in Wednesday about the Dodgers' guest list. Athlete Ally, which promotes night as a vehicle to end prejudice against the LGBTQ community, said in a statement this week that Pride Night events are important to greater acceptance of all communities.

The game and pregame ceremonies raised money and awareness in the battle against AIDS. The event was widely embraced in the San Francisco Bay Area with only minimal disruption. The Texas Rangers remain the lone star holdout franchise to never have held such a celebration, Outsports reported.

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