The Life of Soccer Superstar Megan Rapinoe

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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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00:30I mean, pretty devastated, obviously, losing the World Cup final, but, you know, I think

00:47we have a lot to be proud of and we're going back to a country that's extremely proud of

00:51us and, you know, that means a lot.

01:06Before the games I made the choice to come out and say that I was gay and I can't exactly

01:10put my finger on it, but I think it was the best decision I ever made.

01:14I just felt very free heading over to London and I think I play my best and am my best me

01:20when I'm doing that.

01:29After this World Cup we hope that the league is more stable than it was before.

01:33We hope that the state of women's football is bigger and better than it was before in

01:38terms of, you know, performances by teams and marketing dollars and TV rights and on

01:44and on.

02:14We need to do more to make sporting spaces safe for LGBT youth.

02:21Often times women's sports is just like bootstrapped so hardcore and the budgets are so tight,

02:33like you can't expect to have a business and, like, increase your budget, like, you know,

02:38a hundred percent every year.

02:39It's just not going to work.

02:40These things need to be talked about and it's going to take a long time to break down, you

02:55know, a lot of these systems that have been ingrained in our culture and society for,

02:59like, hundreds of years.

03:00So it's not, like, you know, one movement or, you know, one summer where people are

03:06excited to talk about it or one, you know, hashtag that goes viral.

03:10We really need, like, sustained conversations, sustained efforts to, like, chip away at these

03:16deep grooves that we have in our culture.

03:36We have pink hair and purple hair.

03:39We have tattoos and dreadlocks.

03:42We got white girls and black girls and everything in between.

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