Two men are getting married at Dodger Stadium in a ceremony that underlines how the Dodgers are fixing a fractured relationship with LGBTQ community.
Jonathan Cottrell will march down an aisle leading out of the visitors’ dugout.
Dodger Stadium has been Braverman’s place since he joined the organization in 2008. It became a cornerstone for him when he came out publicly as gay in 2015 and felt the full support of a Guggenheim ownership group determined to repair a longtime fractured relationship with the local LGBTQ community.
Rosen’s response struck to the heart of a Dodgers front-office culture that has emphasized inclusiveness.Perfect it is, in so many ways, a wedding for two guys who once would be outcasts in this old-school sport but are now using baseball as the backdrop for the most important moment of their lives. “Getting married in front of anybody takes guts, but to do it at the cathedral at Chavez Ravine?” said Billy Bean,who is an MLB vice president and special assistant to the commissioner. “This is a transparent example of the environment Dodger ownership has created for the people who work there. This doesn’t happen at every stadium.”