“We fully support the Sisters receiving their much-deserved Community Hero Award and will stand in solidarity with them at Pride Night. “The Dodgers have taken a good first step toward their commitment to the LGBTQ+ community by renewing their invite to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at next month’s Pride Night,” L.A. Pride, the group that will stage a week-long LGBTQ+ celebration culminating in a parade June 11 that drew nearly 150,000 last year, is the Dodgers’ longtime Pride Night collaborator. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a satirical performance and activist organization with a decades-long history of raising awareness and money for LGBTQ+ causes while providing comfort and resources to AIDS patients and unhoused queer and trans youth. Pride Night is scheduled for June 16 at Dodger Stadium during a game against the San Francisco Giants. 626cPP4Ith- Los Angeles Dodgers May 22, 2023 The Dodgers invited us to have a continuing relationship with them.” “Our community is concerned with performative allyship, but we believe this is very sincere. “We’re happy to receive it,” said Sister Unity, a founding member of the Los Angeles order. The Sisters said they will indeed be honored with the Community Hero Award they originally were to receive. The Los Angeles Sisters say they’ve accepted the apology from Dodgers leadership over the decision Wednesday to dump them from Pride Night under pressure from conservative Catholic groups. “We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.” “The Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families,” the Dodgers said in a statement.
Less than a week after removing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their lineup, the Dodgers on Monday re-invited the organization to Pride Night amid backlash from LGBTQ+ and civil rights groups as well as local politicians and even Dodgers employees.
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