Michael Irvin - Taking a Stand for Gay Rights

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Posted: 7/12/11 at 4:05pm

If anyone is a football fan, you know the name Michael Irvin. You know his on the field accomplishments, and some of this off the field missteps.

But you may not know that he has a gay brother, and after some serious self-examination, became very vocal about gay rights and equality. An interesting read in Out Magazine.

"Irvin wants to eradicate homophobia in every corner of American society. He points to churches that have skewed the word of God to persecute those who don’t share their dogma; he shakes his head at the black culture he says has gone adrift in a sea of homophobia; and he said it’s time to end the second class–citizen status of gays in the eyes of the law.

“I don’t see how any African-American with any inkling of history can say that you don’t have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality and everybody being treated equally, I don’t want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn’t deserve equality.”
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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/12/11 at 4:09pm

A tip of my hat to Mr Irvin.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/12/11 at 4:10pm

If he really cared he'd go nude.