Each time Daniel Murphy does something good in the batter’s box, the Rockies’ first baseman is generating donations to LGBTQ charities.
That’s the idea behind Bases For Pride, a crowdfunding effort on Twitter started by four Rockies fans earlier this year. They’re aiming to reconcile their Rockies fandom with Murphy’s history of anti-gay comments.
“There’s a lot of people in the LGBTQ community who are Rockies fans and who have been torn since the season started, because they signed a guy who has been outspoken against LGBTQ,” said Nick Stephens, a bi-sexual who founded Bases for Pride along with friends Connor Farrell, Nick Tremaroli and Judy Steele, who identify as straight.