LGBTQ+ Satisfaction Evening at Dodger Stadium is again this week, apparently with out all of the controversy surrounding final 12 months's occasion.
This 12 months's festivities will happen earlier than and through the Dodgers' recreation in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Royals on Friday evening. Followers who buy a Satisfaction Evening ticket package deal will obtain an LGBTQ+ themed Dodgers jersey.
Pre-game actions embody a stay DJ, line dance classes and a style dance contest within the heart discipline sq. and an Outloud Sports activities kickball recreation on the sphere.
Actions of a distinct variety accompanied final 12 months's Satisfaction occasion at Dodger Stadium.
A few hours earlier than the June 16 recreation in opposition to the San Francisco Giants, about 2,000 protesters marched alongside Stadium Method to Vin Scully Avenue. The protest was in response to the Dodgers' plan to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a satirical efficiency and activist group made up of queer nuns in drag that some Christians contemplate blasphemous — with the Hero Award Neighborhood crew as a part of the Satisfaction. Evening actions.
The Dodgers confirmed to the Instances that there might be no Neighborhood Hero awards this 12 months.
A consultant of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence informed The Instances by way of electronic mail that as a result of numerous Satisfaction season commitments this 12 months, the Sisters will be unable to attend the Dodgers' occasion as 'is an official group, though some members might attend individually and never. in no individual.
Final 12 months's demonstration was organized and promoted by a bunch known as Cattolici Per i Cattolici. There isn’t a point out of Satisfaction Evening protests on the group's web site this 12 months. The group didn’t instantly reply to questions from The Instances.
The advocacy group the Catholic League for Non secular and Civil Rights launched radio adverts a 12 months in the past calling for a boycott of the Satisfaction Evening recreation due to the plan to honor the Sisters. A Catholic League consultant informed The Instances that no such plans have been made presently concerning Friday's recreation.
Additionally through the week main as much as final 12 months's Satisfaction Evening, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez introduced that his service hours earlier than the evening's occasions can be devoted “to therapeutic by way of the hurt brought on by the Dodgers' choice to honor a bunch that deliberately denigrates and desecrates the Christian religion.” No such announcement seems on the web site of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles this 12 months. The group didn’t instantly return a name from The Instances.
