Pittsburgh Pirates Wrap Up Pride Month With Fireworks and Homophobic Country Music Artists

The very same week that we witnessed two huge acknowledgements from professional athletes of their status as gay folx. The very same week, the Pittsburgh Pirates social media team decided to laud their upcoming fan concert this Thursday, July 1, 2021 featuring known homophobe and anti-vaxxer, John Rich of Big & Rich. Let’s go bucs?

Visibility has been huge this week for out athletes -

Japanese Soccer Player Kumi Yokoyama Comes Out As Trans

Emma Twigg will compete in her 4th Olympic Games, but her 1st as an out athlete

6 French athletes, including 3 current Olympians, come out for Pride month

WWE pro wrestler Toni Storm comes out as bisexual

Raiders player Carl Nassib comes out as gay, first active player in NFL history

Carl Nassib is from Pennsylvania. That matters because role models and out athletes, dancers, creators, health care providers, AND MUSICAL ARTISTS matter to LGBTQIA youth.

So all of this great visibility is happening and the Pirates? They book a homophobe who is anti-science, anti-vax, pro-Trump, and worse to play the very day after Pride month ends.

John Rich is quite the ally for the Pirates. He compared LGBTQ identity to pedophila. He supported for Trump and performed at the pre-inaugural events. He claimed a school was racially…