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When gay actors and politicians and other public figures come out and vocally stand up for equality and rights it’s a great thing, and we certainly need more of it to raise our profile and prove that we really are your “everyman” and not just the street parades, drugs, parties and leather pants missing the arse out of them. But what we really need are more people like Brendon Ayanbadejo.

Brendon plays NFL in the U.S. and is straight. In my understanding, the NFL is about as blokey and homophobic as most football codes with only a handfull of players coming out after retirement when the prospect of losing multi million dollar endorsements is gone. So for a player to come out and very publicly support gay marriage equality is so important for our cause. We need more people who don’t stand to gain anything from supporting us to prove that it’s a basic human right for gay men and women to be treated as equals.

Brendon recently said on the topic “We will look back in 10, 20, 30 years and be amazed that gays and lesbians did not have the same rights as everyone else…If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can’t a loving same-sex couple tie the knot? How could our society grant more rights to a heterosexual one-night-stand wedding in Vegas than a gay couple that has been together for three, five, 10 years of true love? The divorce rate in America is currently 50 percent. I am willing to bet that same-sex marriages have a higher success rate than heterosexual marriages.”

So simply but effectively put. Thanks to you Brendon! We need more public figures like you.