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Brendon Ayanbadejo pens an Open Letter to Ole Miss

Last week, I posted a sad story about some of the Ole Miss football team disrupting a local production of 'The Laramie Project'. Well, that didn't sit well with Brendon at all. He wrote an open letter to express his concerns.

Here is some of it:

“The Laramie Project” is a true story about Shepard a young gay college student who was abducted, tortured, beaten, chained to a fence and left to die in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, on this weekend in 1998.

Shepard made the ultimate sacrifice. The taking of his life brought national attention to hate crime awareness and legislation.

The alleged behavior of Ole Miss football players along with freshmen from other sports and students attending the play to fulfill some underclassmen requirements is abhorrent and unacceptable.

I blame the administration as much as I blame the athletes. This is a graphic play and a graphic production. People need to have an idea of what they are getting themselves into.

In no way do I condone this behavior but you need to have a conversation with these athletes when they set foot on any campus as to what is expected from them as representatives of the university.

Read the whole letter here

Brendon Ayanbadejo goes Nude for NoH8

Wow

Brendon Ayanbadejo wants to pose Nude for the NO H8 Campaign

 This was on his Facebook page

Should I do a butt naked ‎#NOH8 shoot? If everyone could just be comfortable in their own skin!

YES! Do it, Please!!!

Tweet of the Week: Brendon Ayanbadejo

All these black folks talking about the bible. That's the same book that was used to make you a slave.

— Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) April 29, 2013

Interesting Quote: Brendon Ayanbadejo

“If we hope to close one of the last closets in America, I would call upon the NFL to be proactive and align with an LGBTQ organization, something that it has not done publicly yet. When the NFL does take such action, maybe players will be more at liberty to feel not only that they can be themselves at the workplace, but also that their employer has their best interest at heart and not just the bottom line. I would even argue that profits would increase if there were a gay player on the roster. At the end of the day, I have played with several gay athletes in my tenure with the NFL. I just didn’t know it!”

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Brendon Ayanbadejo talks to Anderson Cooper about accepting Gay Athletes

From AC360

Brendon Ayanbadejo cut from the Baltimore Ravens

Brendon was cut from the Ravens yesterday. However, he assured his fans and the public that it's not because of his pro-Gay stance.

Brendon took to Facebook with this message:

"Just a heads up I did an interview today and no way said I was cut because my views. I said my talk was louder than my production and at 36 when you are not producing it is a fair move. You can find cheaper guys to do what I do. Ravens are the best organization in the NFL period!"

I'm sure Brendon will be alright. As this door closes, I'm know a few will open for him.

Brendon Ayanbadejo calls for the end of Homophobia in Professional Sports

Brendon writes a great piece in USA Today, hoping for the sport community to stand up and stop being homophobic.

In his piece he says:

That's why I began advocating for marriage equality four years ago. As the child of a Nigerian dad and Irish-American mom, I was raised to believe that, in America, our differences don't matter and discrimination is wrong. During my career in the NFL, I've watched LGBT Americans struggle to make gains in legislatures, schools and boardrooms around the country. Since I first signed with the Falcons in 1999, Wall Street and corporate America have worked to create internal departments and networks focused on LGBT diversity and inclusion. The largest companies in the world have signed on to legal briefs in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples and CEOs have publicly spoken out for LGBT rights. What's even more inspiring is that, after decades of discrimination against gay and lesbian members of the United States military, President Obama ended "don't ask, don't tell." The president made history again in his inaugural address, when he called for equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans -- including the right to marry whomever they love.

Read the rest here

Brendon Ayanbadejo chats about LGBT Equality with Don Lemon

Brendon says:

“I don’t consider it gay rights. I just call it rights. Everyone deserves to be treated equally. Everyone’s been talking to gay people their whole lives whether we know it or not. We really believe that you’re born gay. I’ve had plenty of conversations with people that are gay and they say they are born gay, no different than me being born this beautiful almond coconut color that I am. People are born gay. So why treat them any differently? It’s time that we treat everybody fairly. And not only are we trying to dictate who people should love. We’re also trying to dictate who people should be. If a woman wants to wear a man’s clothes or if a man wants to wear a woman’s clothes or you feel like you’re a woman on the inside and you’re really a man. Who cares? Let’s just treat everybody equally. Let’s move on. Let’s evolve as a culture, as a people.”

Watch the full interview