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Katie Sowers comes out as first lesbian coach in the NFL
The San Francisco 49ers assistant coach, only the second female full-time coach in the NFL, is out and proud.
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San Francisco’s football team calls for repeal of North Carolina’s HB2
The man in charge of San Francisco’s football team condemned North Carolina’s discriminatory law and handed over a check for $75,000 to advocates working to repeal it.
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A year after anti-gay remarks, 49ers’ Chris Culliver continues LGBT outreach
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver is continuing his outreach to the LGBT community more than a year after his anti-gay remarks leading up to the Super Bowl.
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Culliver to attend sensitivity training, volunteer with at-risk LGBT youth
NEW ORLEANS — San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver will begin sensitivity training and education immediately after the Super Bowl following his anti-gay remarks this week, then begin volunteer work with at-risk homosexual youth nationwide.
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The actions of San Francisco 49er players are clueless and crass, divisive and dumb
The crass words and clueless actions of San Francisco 49ers Chris Culliver, Ahmad Brooks and Isaac Sopoaga are as divisive as they are dumb … that these men have foolishly elected to use their Super Bowl spotlight to demean and dehumanize a substantial portion of their fan base is a brazen act of arrogance that encourages the very bullying the ‘It Gets Better’ project addresses.
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It Gets Worse — 49ers say they were unaware ‘It Gets Better’ was a ‘gay video’
Dan Savage, co-founder of the It Gets Better project, said late Thursday he has “removed the (San Francisco) 49ers ‘It Gets Better’ video” from the project’s website after two of the team’s player who appeared in the video said they were unaware they were participating in a project to support LGBT youth.
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San Francisco 49ers’ Chris Culliver apologizes for anti-gay remarks
NEW ORLEANS — San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver apologized Thursday for anti-gay comments he made to a comedian during Super Bowl media day, saying “that’s not what I feel in my heart.”
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Athlete Ally: ‘Chris Culliver’s views are as marginal as they are misguided’
Hudson Taylor, Executive Director of Athlete Ally, a leading organization working to raise awareness and end homophobia in sports, issued this statement Wednesday in response to remarks made by Chris Culliver, cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers, where Culliver tells gay players to get out of the NFL.
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San Francisco 49ers’ Chris Culliver: Gay players not welcome
NEW ORLEANS – Just days before the San Francisco 49ers will take to the field In New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, cornerback Chris Culliver on Tuesday said that a gay player would not be welcome on the team. Appearing on the Artie Lange show Tuesday, Culliver, responding to a question by Lange if there […]
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San Francisco 49ers become first NFL team to join ‘It Gets Better’ campaign
The San Francisco 49ers this week became the first professional football team to join the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign intended to end suicides among LGBT youth, and to bring awareness to bullying of of gay kids.