The Oakland A's are sponsoring Pride Night on June 17 to "celebrate the Bay Area's LGBTQ community."
Many thanks to @billybeanball for addressing the clubhouse today. A's Pride Night is June 17: http://t.co/VLkRYFPR7k pic.twitter.com/F7Ve8iY3kR
— Oakland Athletics (@Athletics) March 26, 2015Some fans responded by saying they wouldn't attend the game, and would rather sell their tickets. That's when A's pitcher Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend Eireann Dolan decided to take action.
Dolan wrote a blog post on March 27 saying that she'll purchase tickets from people who don't want them.
So, A’s fans; if attending a baseball game on LGBT Pride Night makes you at all uncomfortable, it is probably a good idea to sell your tickets. And I have the perfect buyer. ME!
If you’d like to sell your tickets to June 17th’s LGBT Pride Night game, I will buy them from you at face value. As many as I can. No judgments. No questions asked.
From there, I will donate any tickets I purchase to the Bay Area Youth Center’s Our Space community for LGBTQ youth.
After her initial post received such positive feedback, Dolan set up a GoFundMe page for people to donate. The hope is to raise enough funds to purchase as many tickets as possible.
Originally she set the goal for $6,000, but that was achieved rather quickly so she updated it to $10,000. As of this post over $14,000 has been raised.