How did Pride Nights at ever happen at MLB games?

Brent Minor, executive director of Team DC—an organization that promotes LGBT sports participation in the Washington area—remembers feeling pessimistic about the first-ever Washington Nationals Night Out. It was 2005, and his organization “totally emptied [its] treasury” to buy 200 tickets for LGBT fans.

“We thought, ‘Okay, we’re going to lose our shirts,’” Minor says.