Dodger Stadium Hosts Same-Sex Wedding For Team VP & His Fiancé

Erik Braverman, a Los Angeles Dodgers senior vice president, and Jonathan Cottrell, a software engineer, met on the pitching mound at Dodgers Stadium in front of about 80 family members and close friends to tie the knot on Friday.

“Hopefully this will show that in a sport like baseball, even if you don’t feel you fit in, you can always find a place,” said Braverman, who joined the Dodger 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.

“Dodger Stadium is a place I called home for 15 years, a place I publicly came out, a place where

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