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The Texas Rangers have a full promotional calendar for the rest of the 2023 season. They will host nights dedicated to Shark Week, Choctaw Casinos & Resorts and somebody named “Preston.”

But once again, there won’t be a Pride Night at Globe Life Field in Arlington. The Rangers remain the only MLB team out of 30 without an evening dedicated to celebrating its LGBTQ+ fans, and employees aren’t having it.

The Athletic recently spoke to roughly a dozen current or recent employees of the organization about the Rangers’ decision to abstain from promoting LGBTQ+ Pride. Many of the sources quoted were granted anonymity to protect their professional livelihoods.

They weren’t shy about voicing their displeasure.

“I grew up here, I’m a diehard Rangers fan,” said one current…

Posts on social media, shared hundreds of times, claim that the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been “defaced” with a giant rainbow installation to celebrate Pride Month. 

The posts, which have also been shared on Facebook, include a video which appears to show a large rainbow encircling the monument, arching over the road and ending with a cloud-shaped sculpture bearing the words “marche des fiertés”, which means “pride parade” in French. 

It appears that some social media users have believed that this is a physical installation in Paris, but i’s actually a 3D animation created by Ian Padgham, an artist from California now living in France. 

He has shared a number of different animations on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, such as a wine…

NEW YORK – After traveling to Providence, R.I. on Saturday for an Ivy League clash with Brown, the Lions face a quick turnaround, hosting Monmouth University in a nonconference bout on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The meeting with the Hawks is the Pride Game for Columbia, celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. The first 100 fans in attendance get a free PROUD bracelet. 
 
The Lions enter the weekend as the Ivy League leader in total saves, racking up 69 as a team. Katie Wimmer is responsible for 68 of those saves, good enough for first in the conference. Last weekend, Columbia faced Cornell and Delaware in the first back-to-back of the season. The Lions…

Judy Gaver, a “PFLAG mom,” said the event is not a pride parade that normally takes place in a street, but a march taking place on the sidewalk. It’s to commemorate the anniversary of Stonewall, which happened 52 years ago this month, she said. The protest started in 1969 in response to New York City raiding a gay bar.