L.A. Dodgers pull Pride night invite for prominent LGBTQ group, prompting backlash

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The Los Angeles Dodgers say they want to “highlight the diversity and resilience” of its LGBTQ fans at the baseball team’s upcoming Pride Night, even though they disinvited a beloved group known for its fundraising work and decades-long support for the LGBTQ community.

After outcry from Catholic groups and some Republicans, the Major League Baseball team backed away its plan to honour the local chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a network of volunteers known for carrying out charity work and activism while dressed in eccentric drag as nuns.

On Wednesday — which was also the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and

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