The growing political backlash should have been predicable, and will only get worse.
Making ball players wear pro-LGBTQ+ hats and uniform shirts, and threatening retaliation against those who resist, is a terrible practice. It’s as if LGBTQ+ activists and their “allies” are trying to provoke a backlash against the great achievement of the gay rights movement — equal treatment under the law.
🚨TRENDING: San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Hentges declined to wear the team’s Pride Night cap on Friday night, infuriating some members of the fanbase.
— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) June 13, 2026
“It was equal parts bigoted and embarrassing, and blame deserves to shine throughout the organization,” Giants analyst Brady… pic.twitter.com/iZzgfppfSH
This is nuts. Forced to wear "Pride Month" rainbows on their baseball caps, 3 Christians on the SF Giants added, "Gen 9:12-16" — referring to God's covenant with man symbolized with a rainbow.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2026
Gay rights activist: "They defaced the Pride rainbow by telling the LGBTQ community…
🚨 JUST IN: The Attorney General of Florida is now launching an investigation into the MLB after they WARNED 3 Giants pitchers simply because they wore BIBLE VERSES on their "Pride Night" caps
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 16, 2026
GOOD!
JD VANCE: "Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore."
AG UTHMEIER: "Do you… pic.twitter.com/WhVLoT9Pqf
NEW: Professional baseball team 'York Revolution' turns on their players after they were forced to forfeit after the players refused to wear LGBT jerseys for 'Pride Night.'
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 18, 2026
The Pennsylvania team threw their players under the bus for refusing to put on the gay uniforms.
"To be… pic.twitter.com/xStfEYmx88
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Ryan Self also posted:
It’s notable who is the target audience for common forms of LGBTQ activism (“queer” people in some of the most LGBTQ-friendly, progressive cities in the world) and who isn’t (gay kids in deeply conservative and religious areas where hostile attitudes and barriers to opportunities are more common). “How will this action impact gay kids in rural Alabama or ruby red Arkansas?” is a question I wish activists asked themselves. Instead, the concern seems to be, “Do queer baseball fans in San Francisco feel seen?”