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The Life of Soccer Superstar Megan Rapinoe
Brut America
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3/25/2025
She's one of the best American soccer players of all time. Off the field, she's a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality and racial justice. This is Megan Rapinoe.
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I mean, pretty devastated, obviously, losing the World Cup final, but, you know, I think
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we have a lot to be proud of and we're going back to a country that's extremely proud of
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us and, you know, that means a lot.
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Before the games I made the choice to come out and say that I was gay and I can't exactly
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put my finger on it, but I think it was the best decision I ever made.
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I just felt very free heading over to London and I think I play my best and am my best me
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when I'm doing that.
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After this World Cup we hope that the league is more stable than it was before.
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We hope that the state of women's football is bigger and better than it was before in
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terms of, you know, performances by teams and marketing dollars and TV rights and on
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and on.
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We need to do more to make sporting spaces safe for LGBT youth.
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Often times women's sports is just like bootstrapped so hardcore and the budgets are so tight,
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like you can't expect to have a business and, like, increase your budget, like, you know,
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a hundred percent every year.
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It's just not going to work.
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These things need to be talked about and it's going to take a long time to break down, you
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know, a lot of these systems that have been ingrained in our culture and society for,
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like, hundreds of years.
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So it's not, like, you know, one movement or, you know, one summer where people are
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excited to talk about it or one, you know, hashtag that goes viral.
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We really need, like, sustained conversations, sustained efforts to, like, chip away at these
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deep grooves that we have in our culture.
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We have pink hair and purple hair.
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We have tattoos and dreadlocks.
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We got white girls and black girls and everything in between.
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