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The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
The Nashville Predators hosted a Pride Music Heritage Night on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena.
Presented by Amazon, the “theme night” was one of a four-part series meant to showcase entertainment from “diverse communities in Nashville.”
A pregame Plaza Party featured a toast from Nashville Predators CEO Sean Henry commemorating the Preds celebration of Pride Night for a decade, Drag Queens, a glitter bar and hair tinsel, and sponsorship from Regions Bank, and Margaritaville.
A custom logo, reminiscent of a disco ball, was designed for the Pride Music Heritage Night. The logo artists collaborated with the Nashville Predators and the final design was featured on player-signed jerseys, t-shirts and around the arena the night of the game. The design was also featured on 10,000 mini vinyl record coasters given out to the first fans to arrive.
LGBTQ organizations involved with the event during the game included official “towel waver” the Tennessee Pride Chamber, Middle Tennessee Transgender Alliance, Nashville Pride, LGBT Outdoors, and Found Sound Media.
An auction where Preds fans placed bids on jerseys, hats and other merch with the Pride logo benefited GUIDER, a Preds initiative whose goal is the diminishing of “the prevalence of social injustice in any form.” GUIDER is an acronym for Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Representation.
Two more Music Heritage Nights are planned for later in the hockey league’s season, in early 2025. These are API (Asian and Pacific Islander) Music Heritage Night on January 29th, and Black Music Heritage Night on February 8th.
The Pride Music Heritage Night is one of two annual Pride events hosted by the Predators. A separate Pride Night was held in April at the arena.
After controversy following some NHL players outside of Nashville choosing not to wear a Pride themed jersey during warmups in 2023, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that themed warmup jerseys of any kind would no longer be allowed in the league.
Pride Nights are part of NHL’s “Hockey is for Everyone” initiative. As part of their effort to be inclusive, the league works to make the sport a positive environment for people of “every race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and for those with disabilities.”
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
6 Responses
Yup, lucifer’s “people”.
Sounds like a fun night. Wish I could have been there.
Are you ok in the head?
Team sports have become a wasteland.
Where’s @robbystarbuck exposing DEI companies when you need him. This is in his back yard. This crap is why I stopped supporting the Preds.
What an appropriate name for a perverted morally degenerate group to host this event. “The Nashville Predators.” Sounds like the polish bear belongs to this group. As in the words of commie harris. You are on the wrong site you leftist troll. Gov. lee here is another reason to stop spending hard earned taxpayers money on these woke sports teams. This is just total garbage.
ROMANS 1:21-32 NIV
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
In God we trust in government or man.
Have a blessed day.