Stony Brook canceled its trip because of Mississippi's homophobia.
ADAM PECK
JAN 3, 2018, 10:43 AM
For nearly two years, New York State has enforced a strict travel ban for public institutions on all non-essential travel to states where legislatures have passed harsh anti-LGBTQ laws.
This week, the ban cost the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) three Division I baseball games.
The ban was first implemented by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo in March of 2016 after North Carolina passed their controversial HB2 bill, which prohibited transgender residents from using restrooms corresponding to their gender identity, among other things. Even though the state amended the law after losing billions of dollars in business, many of the worst provisions in the bill remained in place, and so too did New York’s ban. Several NCAA Division I games and tournaments have since been relocated, postponed, or canceled as a result.
Less than two weeks after he signed the North Carolina executive order, Cuomo also levied a ban on non-essential state travel to Mississippi, which passed a similar anti-LGBTQ bill under the guise of “religious freedom.”
The Seawolves, Stony Brook University’s Division I baseball team, were scheduled to face Southern Mississippi for a three-game series in late February. But Stony Brook announced they were canceling their trip to Mississippi, citing the state’s anti-LGBTQ law. Instead, USM will replace those games with a road trip to neighboring Texas, losing out on three lucrative home games.
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