2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

Contents:

• MLB- & NHL-LICENSED HATS FEATURE RABOW LOGOS FOR GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR

MLB- & NHL-LICENSED HATS FEATURE RABOW LOGOS FOR GAY PRI

The Friars held a pregame Happy Hour, gave away a Pri SD p wh a stylish rabow stripe down the back, and weled gay, former umpire Dale Stt to throw out the first pch while some off-mera voice yelled “Strike! ”Kapler said he had nversatns wh Giants players and staff about the uniforms and expected full participatn om the team gog to Saturday, pecially sce this is the send season that the team has worn Pri-themed logos on the Dodgers buted their Pri ps at Dodger Stadium's Pri Night on June 3, when they also paid tribute to Glenn Burke, the first openly gay player MLB. The club hosted some proment figur the LGBTQ+ muny pregame ceremoni: Dale Stt, the only umpire profsnal baseball to e out as gay durg his reer, livered the lp rds, and Bay Area native Amy Schneir, who is trans and a 40-time "Jeopardy!

But an atmosphere where relig fanatics, reactnary zealots, and homophobic wannabe fluencers have nvced other rporatns to walk back their Pri efforts, ’s important that 29 baseball teams are still gog to openly celebrate our muny. As someone who grew up gay the 90s, I n verify that a Pri Orle might have been the only good thg om that entire . Joseph McCarthy also persecuted gay people as fervently as he did spected munists.

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Addnally, the Giants will be celebratg the San Francis Gay Softball League’s 50th anniversary wh a pregame ceremony and two seatg sectns of Oracle Park dited to SFGSL players. Here’s a reason to be enuraged: The Rays have ved retired MLB umpire Dale Stt — who is gay — to throw out the first pch and he’ll be signg pi of his excellent tobgraphy “The Umpire Is Out” at The Trop. Wh the creasg populary of "Pri Nights" and "Gay Nights, " and the embracg of the LGBT muny by pro sports teams lookg to rake pk dollars, the hats and other apparel are growg populary.

This is how we thk should be done, ’ ” Dm ial nversatns years ago clud the six rabow lors tradnally ed to celebrate the gay and lbian muni, employe raised the importance of cludg black and brown to munite support for Black and Brown members of the LGBTQ muny, and of cludg the light blue, pk and whe lors of the transgenr flag. Anyone spendg time a major league clubhoe recent s uld hear more than a handful of gay slurs tossed around wh no one steppg to say they shouldn’t be — even as diversy and clivy trag has bee more prevalent. No player has been openly gay durg his time the major learship tradnally has not ma leadg on issu of social jtice and clivy a prry, eher.