NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — For the first time, the Mets will host an LGBT-themed Pride Night at Citi Field this baseball season.
The team will hold a news conference on Tuesday to announce the plans for Pride Night. LGBT Network chief executive officer David Kilmnick talked with WCBS 880 about the plan.
“We’re real excited about it, because sports and athletics is one of the last bastions of homophobia that we have to tackle, and a lot of people – about lot of LGBT people – do not feel safe either going to games or on the ballfield if they’re in school or in college,” Kilmnick said.