The Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball have continued to be the only team in the league to not hold a Pride night, a game with a gay pride theme, or any other promotion of the type.
In fact, the team hasn’t held a celebration of this nature since 2003, according to Breitbart. A number of “LGBTQ+ groups” were apparently invited to the stadium that year by the team, although there were reportedly objections and no official marketing for the event. Anything resembling such a party wasn’t held again after that.
Media outlets appear to routinely check in with the Rangers organization each season, as seen by the Dallas Morning News’ reprinting of a 2021 piece on the subject. In reality, the article from 2021 repeats statements made to the newspaper in 2020 by Rangers COO Neil Leibman
Leibman stated, “With regard to Pride Night, we contacted the Resource Center and asked what can we do internally. “We embraced some of their suggestions right away to make our hiring procedures more inclusive. That, in my opinion, conveys more significance than merely responding, “Well, we had a Pride Night.