Tonight, the Giants spotlight the LGBT+ community with their 16th annual LGBT Night. Sixteen years doesn’t seem like it has been that long, but when you think back to what things were like back then and how much has changed since, especially for those in the LGBT+ community for worse and for better, it really has been.
It’s somewhat surprising that baseball was out in front on creating these events, as conservative as the sport and its athletes tend to be. I don’t mean that in the political sense of the word, but in the actual definition.