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Citi Field ready to host LGBT Pride Night
- Updated: August 12, 2016
NEW YORK — Saturday night’s home game against the Padres will be important not only for a Mets club engaged in a tough National League Wild Card race, but for a large LGBT community where the gay rights movement began nearly a half-century ago.
Saturday will be LGBT Pride Night at Citi Field, making the Mets the first team in New York’s four major professional sports to host an official event for this community. Tickets are available at mets.com/pride; more than 5,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fans will attend sporting commemorative Pride Night T-shirts.
A portion of each ticket sold through this offer will benefit the non-profit LGBT Network and its Safe Schools Initiative to stop bullying on Long Island and in Queens. Pregame festivities will include a Pride in the Plaza show just outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
“I’m just really, really excited to be a part of it, support it and see a group of fans come through the turnstiles at Citi Field and really be able to be their best self and be there for the one thing we all have in common, a love for the ballpark,” Billy Bean, Major League Baseball’s vice president of social responsibility and inclusion, said on Thursday at the Commissioner’s Office.
“The fact that it was picked for a Saturday night in the middle of the summer shows the generosity of the Mets. This is not a gimmick to sell tickets. This is something that organically they really felt and embraced — an olive branch to another part of their fan base.”
It is not the first Pride Night around the Majors, but it is an impactful one.
“To see the tens of thousands of fans who are going to be enjoying a baseball game — many of them for the first time, because they are going to …
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