On Saturday, June 2, Yankee Stadium played host to NYCFC’s 3-0 victory over Orlando City SC. The night was also the victor’s second-annual Pride Night, celebrating NYCFC’s commitment to the LGBTQ community. And yet, throughout the night, NYCFC fans – largely in and around the standing-room-only, largely-supporters’ group-populated general admission seating in Sections 235-238 – loudly chanted “puto,” a homophobic slur, on goal kicks and similar dead-ball plays throughout the night.
NYCFC’s Pride Night, designed to celebrate the LGBTQ community in concert with June’s LGBTQ Pride Month, came complete with a national anthem sung by the New York City Men’s Gay Chorus’s Tonewall, a Tunnel of Honor comprised of the New York chapter of the Gay Officers Action League, rainbow-colored game paraphernalia (i.