By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-03-02 18:10:17
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在比赛开始时，圣安东尼奥马刺队的吉祥物“郊狼”跑上球场庆祝骄傲之夜。2021年12月11日星期六在A&T中心举行的马刺队对阵掘金队的比赛花絮。
圣安东尼奥LGBTQ+社区的一位重要成员赞扬了马刺队的骄傲之夜，即使许多私营公司纷纷效仿特朗普政府消除DEI（多元化、公平和包容性）倡议的努力。
“他们有很多夜晚来纪念退伍军人，展示来自我们社区以及中南德克萨斯的不同群体，他们以一种方式将强烈的爱国主义与对社区的强烈热爱融合在一起，” 贝克萨尔县法官罗茜·斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯(Rosie Speedlin González)说。“他们非常明显地表明他们了解自己的社区，而且仅仅因为半个国家之外的某个人用言语表达DEI已死——总统先生，你可以随心所欲地说，但这既不是事实，也不正确。”
马刺队于2021年举办了他们的第一个骄傲之夜。这一年度活动在周日继续进行，马刺队与圣安东尼奥LGBTQ+商会合作，在俱乐部宣传为具有“充满活力的氛围，庆祝多元化和社区”的夜晚，迎战俄克拉荷马城雷霆队。
“我为我们的球队感到骄傲，并且非常感激我们坚持了下来，” 马刺队首席人才、影响力和归属感官兼球队非营利组织Spurs Give的执行董事卡拉·艾伦(Kara Allen)说。
“作为一名酷儿女性领导者，”艾伦补充说，“我感到一种巨大的压力，促使我们继续做更艰难、更正确的事情。”
斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯于2019年上任，成为贝克萨尔县第一位公开同性恋身份的拉丁裔法官，她出席了活动，马刺队在活动中向两位为LGBTQ+社区做出持久影响的人致敬：贝克萨尔县第一区专员办公室主任弗兰基·冈萨雷斯-沃尔夫(Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe)，他是德克萨斯州首位公开跨性别身份的民选官员办公室主任；以及社区倡导者、时尚记者和前《圣安东尼奥快报》记者迈克尔·昆塔尼利亚(Michael Quintanilla)，他曾担任2024年节日焰火游行的总指挥。
骄傲之夜的举办，距离马刺队举办黑人传统之夜仅一个月，当时他们向当地黑人开拓者瓦莱丽·雷弗特(Valerie Reiffert)、罗莎·L·威尔逊主教(Bishop Rosa L. Wilson)和马里奥·马塞尔·萨拉斯(Mario Marcel Salas)致敬，并向历史悠久的黑人学院和大学——休斯顿-蒂洛森大学捐赠了1万美元。
在唐纳德·特朗普总统发布全面行政命令，取消联邦政府各部门的多元化、公平和包容性项目之后，黑人传统之夜和骄傲之夜在本赛季具有了更重要的意义。包括塔吉特、劳氏和Meta（Facebook和Instagram的母公司）在内的几家大型公司以及许多大学校园，都纷纷效仿特朗普的做法，要么取消要么缩减其DEI目标。
特朗普表示，DEI法律和项目威胁到了白人，特别是白人男性的基于才能的招聘、晋升和教育机会。
特朗普还签署了行政命令，试图根除“性别意识形态”，禁止跨性别者服兵役，并限制为未成年人提供的跨性别护理。
贝克萨尔县法官罗茜·斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯于2019年在卡德纳-里夫斯司法中心的第13县法院审理案件。
斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯说，马刺队显然没有加入她所说的“随大流效应”，在这种效应中，“大多数大型公司”纷纷停止其DEI措施，因为特朗普已将针对此类项目作为他第二个任期的核心内容。
“有两个事实：一是，我们目前的状态是存在很多噪音，”斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯说。“很多人在说很多事情。有很多静态信息。播客、新闻、广播和印刷品上有很多东西。另一件事是，我们生活在一个资本主义社会。它非常以金钱为导向。因此，所有这些私营公司都在排队，（认为）它们的利润可能会受到现任政府的影响。我们非常清楚这一点。
“但是，这种噪音仍然不会让你试图闭上眼睛和捂住耳朵的人消失。我们仍然在这里，我们是一个多元化的群体，一个每天为自己和我们的同胞争取公平结果的群体，一个每天努力争取不仅被包容，而且包容他人的群体。”
虽然许多公司削减了其DEI计划，但包括达美航空、好市多、苹果和宝洁在内的几家公司已承诺继续其计划。冈萨雷斯认为，这些公司认识到有色人种和边缘化社区成员“很大程度上是消费者”。
“LGBTQ社区一直以来都被认为是所有社会经济群体中可支配收入最多的群体，”斯皮德林·冈萨雷斯说。“所以今天就做出你的选择吧。仅仅因为你的举动很受欢迎，并不意味着它是正确的举动。如果你想走民粹主义路线，那就去吧。但这仍然不能使其正确。我们中有一股强大的力量非常清楚这一点。
“因此，我很高兴看到马刺队成为这股志同道合的思考者的一部分，无论是马刺队组织中的个人还是作为一个整体。”
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Judge applauds Spurs celebration of Pride Night, DEI
At the beginning of the game San Antonio Spurs mascot ‘Coyote” runs onto the court celebrating Pride Night. BKN Spurs-Nuggets Takeaways at A&T Center on Saturday, Dec. 11,2021.
A prominent member of San Antonio’s LGBTQ+ community applauded the Spurs’ Pride Night even as many private companies have rushed to fall in line with the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate DEI initiatives.
“They have lots of nights where they honor veterans, where they feature different groups from all over our community and Central and South Texas, and they have this way of blending strong patriotism with the strong love for community,” Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin González said. “And they make it very, very apparent they know who their community is, and just because someone else half a country away is putting into words that DEI is dead – you can say that all you want Mr. President, but it doesn’t make it true and it doesn’t make it right.”
The Spurs held their first Pride Night in 2021. The annual event continued Sunday as the Spurs, in partnership with the San Antonio LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, hosted Oklahoma City on a night the club marketed as having a “vibrant atmosphere celebrating diversity and community.”
“I’m so proud of our team and so grateful we have stayed the course,” said Kara Allen, the Spurs’ chief people, impact, and belonging officer and executive director of Spurs Give, the franchise’s nonprofit.
“And as a queer woman leader,” Allen added, “I feel a significant pressure to push us to continue to do the harder, right thing.”
Speedlin González, who took office in 2019 as Bexar County’s first openly gay Latina judge, was in attendance as the Spurs honored two people who they said have made a lasting impact on the LGBTQ+ community: Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, Bexar County Commissioner Precinct 1’s chief of staff and Texas’ first openly transgender chief of staff for an elected official, and Michael Quintanilla, a community advocate, fashion journalist and former San Antonio Express-News reporter who served as Grand Marshal of the 2024 Fiesta Flambeau Parade.
Pride Night came a month after the Spurs hosted Black Heritage Night, when they honored local Black trailblazers Valerie Reiffert, Bishop Rosa L. Wilson and Mario Marcel Salas and presented Huston-Tillotson University, a Historically Black College and University, with a $10,000 donation.
Black Heritage Night and Pride Night took on greater meaning this season after President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government. Several major corporations, including Target, Lowe’s and Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) and many college campuses have followed Trump’s lead by either eliminating or rolling back their DEI goals.
Trump has said DEI laws and programs threaten merit-based hiring, promotion and educational opportunities of white people, especially white men.
Trump has also signed executive orders seeking to eradicate “gender ideology,” bar transgender people from military service and restrict transgender care for minors.
Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez hears cases in the County Court 13 at the Cadena-Reeves Justice Center in 2019.
Speedlin González said the Spurs are clearly not joining what she called a “bandwagon effect” that has seen “mostly large corporations” rush to end their DEI measures as Trump has made targeting such programs a central part of his second term.
“There are two things that are just facts of life: One, our current status is there’s a lot of noise,” Speedlin González said. "There’s a lot of people saying a lot of things. There’s a lot of static. There’s a lot of stuff on podcasts, in the news, on airwaves, in print. And the other thing is we live in a capitalist society. It’s very money-driven. And so all these private companies are lining up, (thinking) their bottom line could be affected by the current administration. We are very aware of that.
“But that noise still doesn’t make the people you’re trying to close your eyes to and cover your ears to go away. We’re still here, a diverse group of us, a group of us that fights daily to have equitable outcomes for ourselves and our brethren, and a group that strives every day to not only be included, but to also include.”
While many companies have cut their DEI initiatives, several have vowed to continue their programs, including Delta Air Lines, Costco, Apple and Procter & Gamble. Gonzalez believes those companies recognize that people of color and members of marginalized communities “very much are consumers.”
“The LGBTQ community has been said from time to time to have the most disposable income of any socioeconomic group,” Speedlin González said. "And so make your choices today. Just because your move is popular doesn’t make it a right move. And if you want to go with populism, go ahead. It still doesn’t make it right. And there’s a strong vein of us that are very well aware of that.
“So, I’m happy to see the Spurs organization be a part of that vein of like-minded thinkers, whether it be individuals in the Spurs organization or them as a whole.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News