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Super Bowl-Bound Ravens Linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo Wants to Raise LGBT Visibility

Baltimore Ravens linebacker and outspoken equality advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo has a lot on his mind as his team heads to the Super Bowl in New Orleans next month.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker and outspoken equality advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo wants to capitalize on his team's Super Bowl publicity to further advocate for marriage equality, he told The New York Times ' Frank Bruni. 

Just a few hours after his team crushed the Super Bowl hopes of the New England Patriots, Ayanbadejo was hopped up on adrenaline and penned an early-morning letter to Brian Ellner, a marriage equality advocate with whom Ayanbadejo has previously worked, and Russell Simmons, a hip-hop mogul who has spoken out in favor of marriage equality, asking how he can use the impending publicity to raise visibility for LGBT rights. 

According to Bruni, Ayanbadejo wrote, “Is there anything I can do for marriage equality or anti-bullying over the next.

The NFL player was active in Maryland's successful effort to enact marriage equality at the ballot box last year and penned a pro-equality op-ed for The Huffington Post back in 2009. Last year, he caught up with The Advocate's Michelle Garcia to talk equality in the locker room, on the field, and in the legislature.

And for you who will be in New Orleans during Super Bowl weekend. He is actually making an appearance at a gay bar in New Orleans to benefit Forum for Equality, which is a Louisiana-based gay rights organization, according to a post on their Facebook page.

And if you're in town that weekend: "SuperBowl star Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo will be making an appearance to benefit the Forum For Equality at 700 Club @ 700 Burgundy St  more details to follow".

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