“I did an interview way back in 2001, and someone asked me, ‘Why did you do this? And what’s your end goal?’ I said to make any LGBT person feel comfortable going to a very masculine sport and not be treated bad,” Gubrud said. Soon after the first Out at Wrigley event - initially called Out at the Ballgame - other sports teams like the Florida Marlins and the Minnesota Twins followed the Cubs’ lead. Laura Ricketts, the sister of Cubs chairman Thomas Ricketts and a co-owner of the Cubs, was the first major sports team owner to be openly gay. Once the Ricketts family bought the Cubs in 2009, Gubrud said the Cubs became more involved with the LGBTQ community. 29 against the Cincinnati Reds, and are giving away locally designed T-shirts to the first 10,000 fans that enter the park. The Sox are having their own pride night on Sept.
