It has been a tumultuous 2023 for the LGBTQ+ community.
Drag bans, gender-affirming care bans for trans people, bathroom bills, and waves of violence against queer people, among many other terrible things we were already dealing with, have made this year’s Pride Month celebrations complicated, to say the least.
The fiasco with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Los Angeles Dodgers sparked a lot of controversy in the baseball community and elsewhere about Pride Nights, leading to many teams caving in to pressure and hate speech, and taking down Pride logos that in other years had been mainstays for the month of June.