It all start when the Boston Red Sox painted their pitcher’s mound rainbow colors for LGBTQ Pride Night last week. Cute, right?
New look for #Pride Night! pic.twitter.com/Mpe3Up1CBK
— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 7, 2018
Well not everyone thought so. A mob of homophobic snowflakes felt left out and quickly took to Twitter to express their disapproval…
Barfapalooza. Get politics out of sports.
— Barbara Nicolosi (@BRNicolosi) June 8, 2018
Is this really necessary?
— Jared Clatterbuck (@JaredClaterbuck) June 7, 2018
Not necessary. Nothing to be proud of here Red Sox. We don’t need rainbows on the pitchers mound.. what’s next rainbow uniforms? Rainbow home plate? Rainbow monster?
— Jon Rice (@Rice41Jon) June 7, 2018
Some went so far as to demand a “Straight Pride Night”…
So we get a straight pride and acceptance night? Have to be equal and fair after all.
— Patrick Krawczynski (@Silverwolfheart) June 8, 2018
When is Straight Pride month? This is discrimination at its finest. Why can’t we be proud of following God’s Laws?
— Nick LaMaster (@NLamaster) June 12, 2017
Others mentioned how Lord Jesus Christ would be very displeased…
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What is wrong with these people? Why are we celebrating what God calls an abomination?
— Wayne Barr (@rebelfan65) June 8, 2018
Disgusting ! Nice to see my favourite team conforming to the sin of the world. No more Red Sox for my family !!
— Talya Schwartz (@TalyaSchwartz) June 10, 2018
As a proud Red Sox fan since 1897 I can’t believe they are doing this! My children are at this game! I don’t want them exposed to this kind of degeneracy!
— Yasmani Grandal’s only fan (@Kershianity) June 8, 2018
Of course, there were plenty more people who expressed support of the Sox and told the homophobic haters to have a seat.
We like this person’s response the best…
It’s literally for one night. Y’all can calm down
— Frankie ?? (@frankiehealy11) June 10, 2018
Play ball.
Related: A simple 4-word text sent by a dad to his gay teen from a baseball game speaks volumes
DCguy
This is the game plan for bigots and racists.
They keep DESPERATELY trying to paint virulent racism or violent bigotry as a “Simple political difference”.
You constantly see it on posts, people will try to hide any bigotry or racism by claiming that lgbts are intolerant against people who have “Different opinions” and they ALWAYS leave out the fact that the “Different Opinion” is that lgbts shouldn’t have any civil rights, or that racism should be legal.
DCguy
Oh and I almost forgot. Notice how things like “Straight Pride” and “White Pride” are never about showing Pride, but about attacking other groups?
Raymundo
I can’t return to my country because the people will kill me. I know a guy who was run out of his country. I know a kid run out of their home. When straight people have songs about killing them being top ten then they can get a pride.
Xzamilloh
So when we bring up grievances about actual issues like racism, homophobia, transphobia, we’re a bunch of cry baby snowflake libtards… but Boston Red Sox put a rainbow logo on the pitcher’s mound, and a bunch of conservatives and “I’m not like them” fence straddling liberals want to start complaining about… what, exactly? How did this affect them? Why is it that their “rights” always involve somehow imposing their morality on the rest of us and calling it “freedom”?
Curtispsf
SO well said. Thank you! /|\
AtlasRich
If Straight people are feeling left out then they should have a Straight Pride parade 9 months out of the year so that they are reminded that they are still the majority, no one is threatening their rights, no one has made an attempt on limiting their presence and they don’t have to battle legal and social prejudices and overall things are pretty darn good for them.
Erik
If these folks want a straight pride night, they can earn the way GLBTQ people did – by surviving some 17 centuries of systemic oppression that included torture and execution.
Or they can count their blessings and be glad they don’t need to celebrate their ability to survive deliberate, deadly persecution.
hansniemeijer
In a way it is !@#$%! Str8 pride every day!
gjg64
Well, now I have a reason to like the Red Sox.
radiooutmike
Well, I should not be surprised. But I am.
The funny thing is that these people are saying, keep politics out of sports; are probably the same people who like Trump leaning on the NFL for the no kneeling rule. It was the Red Sox logo on the pitching mound. I watched that game at a bar– you could not see it.
These people talking about the children are idiots as well.
The Accidental Polemicist
The totalitarian overlord leftists at Queerty have removed my comment. So much for free speech, diversity, inclusiveness, tolerance and diversity of thought on the Queerty boards!
Lacuevaman
check out Q.digital. All they want to do is market you….
Juanjo
climb down off the cross, sweetie. We need the wood for something productive.
DCguy
Translation:
Your comment was an attack on LGBTs where you attempted to support bigotry and homophobia.
Right?
CarrieV
When I was five or six years old, I hated the fact that there was a Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but no “Kids’ Day”.
The difference between me and those Twitter twits is that *I* grew the F up.
gjg64
I’m mad there isn’t an Uncles Day, especially a Gay Uncles Day.
Lacuevaman
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery….
CJones01
Cool, here’s a non-exhaustive checklist to earn that parade:
Have people get in your face for holding your partner’s hand in public.
Get shot at in a night club.
Have people beat you up at your parades.
Risk being disowned by your family and have your friends turn their backs on you.
Have people tell you that a particular disease is “God’s Punishment.”
Risk vandalism, violence and being killed.
Have heterosexuality declared a mental illness for about 20 years.
Have your spaces raided for the police.
Run the risk of being extorted.
Run the risk of losing your job and home.
Have people challenge your right to marry and the legitimacy of your relationship.
Run the risk of higher rates of teenage runaways and suicides.
Have people try to stop you from using public restrooms.
Have people equate you to pedophiles.
… and much, much more!
Deal with this crap for at least 50 years and we’ll talk.
Curtispsf
Another spot on comment! /|\
Thad
I’m going to two Pride ballpark events this month…June 21 in Milwaukee and June 28 in Philadelphia. Wonder if the reaction will be similar. Probably not in Philadelphia where it’s nothing new…but it’s a first in Milwaukee, Might be interesting.
Kevan1
I thought everyday is straight pride day.
Kangol
If you walk out of your door anywhere other than Provincetown, Palm Springs, Rehoboth, or a few other places in the US, at least, it sure in the hell is!
Kangol
The whineyness and snowflakery of supposed tough conservative anti-gay fanatics is so pathetic. What would be nice is for some of the players to f*ck with them and start wearing rainbow wristbands or flags on their uniforms to show LGBTQ solidarity. Or for the ones with beards or long hair or braids or dreadlocks, add the flag colors, and see how the homophobes react. The Red Sox will have to bring out fainting couches, I’m sure.
breal
Don’t forget to vote in November against Trump and his homophobic followers in November in addition to complaining on the web.
DCguy
Here’s an idea, if Straight people want to complain there is no “Straight Pride” celebrations…they can tune into “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” or go to any bar in a gay neighborhood on a weekend and deal with Screaming Bachelorette parties, or look at their co-workers desks to see pictures of their opposite sex spouses, or look on the street to see straight couples holding hands…or they can walk down the street and NOT have to fight off a mob because they aren’t holding hands with somebody of the same sex, or present as obviously trans or are even just a feminine guy or masculine woman walking alone.
Do that, then get back to us.
ShowMeGuy
Every game night is Straight Pride Night.