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Bill Plaschke: Dodger Stadium wedding shows progress team has made in LGBTQ community

LOS ANGELES — Erik Braverman will march down an aisle leading out of the Dodgers' dugout. Jonathan Cottrell will march down an aisle leading out of the visitors' dugout. Together they will meet on the pitching mound in front of about 80 family members and close friends to engage in an ancient ritual, on ancient soil, in a moment of great enlightenment. Braverman, a Dodgers senior vice ...

LOS ANGELES — Erik Braverman will march down an aisle leading out of the Dodgers' dugout.

Jonathan Cottrell will march down an aisle leading out of the visitors' dugout.

Together they will meet on the pitching mound in front of about 80 family members and close friends to engage in an ancient ritual, on ancient soil, in a moment of great enlightenment.

Braverman, a Dodgers senior vice president, and Cottrell, a software engineer, are officially uniting on Jan. 21 in one of the crown jewels of what was once the most intolerant of sports.

The two men are getting married at Dodger Stadium.

"Hopefully this will show that in a sport like baseball, even if

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