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"The Giants Get Embroiled In the Culture War Battle They Didn't Need as JD Vance, Josh Hawley Weigh In on Pride Night Hats'
The San Francisco Giants, as plenty of people have already said, have more to worry about this season than whether or not a few homophobic pitchers feel put-upon for having to wear rainbow-themed caps on the annual Pride Night. But here we are.
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But this is another in a series of culture-war moments where the shift in cultural mandates around inclusion and non-discrimination that was commanded by Trump the moment he stepped back into office, which only some Republicans even support, has been weaponized to make an example of a baseball team, and of baseball itself, in an effort to turn the clock back on LGBTQ acceptance by three or four decades.
It's likely a futile effort, and over the smallest and dumbest of gestures, but it's a scary one nonetheless for all LGBTQ+ people who can feel the larger effort to try to erase them, and to pretend that the last three decades of momentum toward broader acceptance didn't happen."

The Giants Get Embroiled In the Culture War Battle They Didn't Need as JD Vance, Josh Hawley Weigh In on Pride Night Hats
The San Francisco Giants, as plenty of people have already said, have more to worry about this season than whether or not a few homophobic pitchers feel put-upon for having to wear rainbow-themed caps on the annual Pride Night. But here we are.








