The Seattle Mariners organization is apologizing to the LGBTQ community. That's after two incidents in which couples say they were humiliated by ballpark staff - one of them at the Mariners first ever Pride night.

Major League Baseball’s own Ambassador of Inclusion, Billy Bean, threw out the first pitch on Pride night at Safeco Field, Aug 19. Bean's job is to provide guidance in support of the LGBTQ community.

Seattle resident Mary McHale was at the game, too, with their significant other. Having a grandfather who loves the Mariners, McHale associates the team with warm, happy feelings. That changed as the couple was waiting for a ride outside the ballpark.

McHale: "My sweetheart looked at me and said what a great time we were having, and we kissed. And just standing there, not doing anything obscene or anything that would make any of the other folks around us uncomfortable, and that's when a Safeco Field employee came out and said, 'ladies, I'm gonna have to ask you to stop.'"

McHale says it was humiliating for multiple reasons. It was Pride night, for one, and neither McHale nor their partner go by female pronouns.