It says a lot of wonderful, amazing things that this is the current FaceBook profile pic for the official Boston Red Sox account. It seemed like such a matter-of-fact thing, and for a moment I wondered what my younger life would have been like had something like this existed when I was just growing up and learning who I was. When you don’t see yourself anywhere, part of you doesn’t truly believe that you’re even there.
Seeing it now – the colors of LGBTQIA+ Pride intertwined with the Red Sox logo – I feel a thrill of how far we have come. Our BroSox Adventure, starting tomorrow, coincides with Pride week in Boston.
“As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics – culture is politics.” ~ Jose Antonio Vargas
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