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March 5, 2013

NFL's Chris Culliver keeps promise to visit Trevor Project after anti-gay comments

Culliver had said any gay teammates 'gotta get up out of here'

San Francisco 49er cornerback Chris Culliver has paid a visit to the offices of The Trevor Project keeping a promise he made after making anti-gay remarks in an interview in January.

Culliver tweeted a photo of himself in front of a Trevor Project logo and wrote: 'Great time at LGBTQ the Q is for (question).'

The Trevor Project is a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to gay and lesbian youngsters.

July 25, 2012

Gay Eagle Scout fired from Northern California summer camp

10 camp employees walk off the job in support of Tim Griffin

Tim Griffin, a 22-year-old Eagle Scout, had worked at the Boy Scouts of America-run Camp Winton in Northern California's Amador County for eight summers.

Then last week, he was fired.

Griffin, who is gay, says he has little doubt why.