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On a night meant to celebrate inclusivity, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw made a statement of his own. One not announced but written, quite literally, across his hat.
During the Dodgers’ Pride Night matchup against the San Francisco Giants, both teams wore rainbow-colored caps in support of the LGBTQ+ community. Kershaw, not pitching that night, remained in the dugout with a Bible verse—Genesis 9:12-16—scrawled on his rainbow Dodgers hat. The passage, which speaks of God’s covenant with man via the symbol of the rainbow, is widely seen by conservative Christian groups as reclaiming the rainbow from LGBTQ+ symbolism.
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Kershaw has made no widespread comment about the inscription. Still, the message is clear for a lot of people on social media—and it’s the latest chapter in his complicated history with the Dodgers’ attempts at Pride inclusivity.
History Repeats Itself
This isn’t Kershaw’s first time quietly pushing back against the team’s LGBTQ+ efforts
DODGERS KICK OFF LA PRIDE 2022
WITH ANNUALLGBTQ+ PRIDE NIGHT
Special event ticket pack, pregame party with DJ Bowie J, and post-game Friday Night Fireworks
National Anthem to be sung by
international LGBTQ+ recording artist Wils
This highly anticipated game will feature an exclusive commemorative Dodger LGBTQ+ game jersey as part of the exceptional LGBTQ+ Night ticket package available for purchase now!
The pre-game party starts in the Right Field Plaza Bar from 5:30 p.m. until first pitch at 7:10 p.m. Also pre-game, the Dodgers will notice former Los Angeles Dodger Glenn Burke, the first openly gay MLB player.
Other special guests will add include Billy Bean, another former Dodger and the only other Major League Player to come out publicly after his playing career. Bean currently serves as Major League Baseball’s SVP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion & Special Assistant to the Commissioner. And Dale Scott, a 32-year career MLB umpire who came out in 2014, will also be at the game!
In addition to being longtime supporters of LA Pride, the Dodge
This week, the Los Angeles Dodgers host their 10th annual Pride Night to celebrate LGBTQ people and allies. As they hold done every year, the Dodgers will recognize the contributions of local LGBTQ community partners at world-famous Dodger Stadium.
Pride Nights exhibit all in the stands and watching on TV that their LGBTQ neighbors are sports fans and everyday people, just appreciate anyone. This isn’t controversial. Baseball fans, and all LGBTQ people, represent alternative backgrounds, abilities, races, ethnicities and countries of origin, religions and faiths, sexual orientations and gender identities.
We want to be perfectly clear: The groups that the Dodgers will honor at their Pride Late hours, including the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, belong in the Dodgers’ stadium and are deserving of recognition. The Sisters have served their community for decades, bringing “flamboyant hilarity to serious causes” including supporting people with HIV, fighting for justice and equality, feeding the hungry, finding shelter for the unhoused, and raising more than a million dollars for charity,
LGBT NIGHT AT THE LA DODGERS
Join LA Pride for a home-run evening at the 6th Annual LGBT Night at Dodger Stadium!
The Los Angeles Dodgers will help kick-off LA Pride Weekend 2018 with the 6th annual LGBT Night at Dodger Stadium. In addition to being an LA Pride Week tradition, the LA Dodgers will also honor some of the biggest LGBT names in sports, including U.S. Olympian Gus Kenworthy, Dale Scott – the first openly gay umpire in MLB history – and Will Hackner, Founder of the Varsity Gay League.
We’re calling on LA Dodger fans to #JUSTBE at this “home run” of an event. The pleasurable starts at 5:30 pm with the official 2018 LA Pride Weekend kick-off party in the Right Field Plaza Pavillion Bar and adj until first pitch against the Atlanta Braves at 7:10 pm.
Dale Scott, the first openly gay umpire in MLB history, will take to the mound for the ceremonial first pitch. One of the most respected umpires in the business, Scott also served as a crew chief for 16 seasons.
The national anthem will be performed by openly-gay singer and actor Brian Justin Crum, known best fo