Just when you thought the homophobic atmosphere in the football locker room was changing for the better, two San Francisco 49ers’ are stirring the pot again.
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49ers’ linebacker Ahmad Brooks and nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga are denying that they both appeared in a video aimed to combat bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens (LGBT).
They told USA Today that they didn’t realize that the “It Gets Better” video they shot was about LGBT bullying, when in fact, it was.
“This is America and if someone wants to be gay, they can be gay,” Brooks told the publication. “But I didn’t make any video.” Later, after he was reportedly shown the video on an iPhone, the player clarified, “Oh, that. It was an anti-bullying video, not a gay [rights] video.”
Even more curiously, Sopoaga similarly denied taking part in the clip, even as a teammate reportedly tried to jog his memory. “I never went,” he declared. “And now someone is using my name.”
LGBT rights advocate and “It Gets Better” project founder Dan Savage has responded to Brooks’ and Sopoaga’s claims, and have since removed their video from the site.
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The news comes as teammate Chris Culliver told Artie Lange that “he don’t do” gays and former teammate Kwame Harris was in court on assault charges from an ex-boyfriend.
Wow. Are the football players ashamed that they appeared in the video?
SOURCE: Huffington Post
