Several prominent LGBTQ+ groups will not participate in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ annual Pride Night after the organization announced Wednesday that it would no longer honor an advocacy group with a community service award.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center, the ACLU of Southern California and LA Pride withdrew from Pride Night in the wake of the Dodgers’ decision.
, “make people happy, stamp out guilt brought on by a judgmental society and help various organizations and charities.”Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote a public letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred claiming the Dodgers were “rewarding hate speech” by including the group in Pride Night. “It is true that we borrow from the look of medieval Catholic nuns and that we use religious language as part of our shtick,” she said. “We employ it both because comedy is based on surprise and you don’t expect hairy-chested, bearded men to appear as nuns. We banked on that humor. Gay humor is often iconoclastic. But we’ve never said we’re against the Catholic Church. We are not.”
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