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We’re a week into Identity Month and 24 of the 32 NFL teams have posted messages of support for the LGBTQ community.

This clearly bothers sites that see this as a sign of being too “woke,” while these same sites praise the holdouts for not knuckling under to the “gay agenda.”

Yet it’s complicated to tell if any of this shows NFL teams are becoming more or less gay warm and are pulling endorse, as many corporations are for Pride Month under the new administration.

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There are also more than three weeks left in the month, so more can happen. The NFL’s iconic “Football is gay” video in 2021 was not posted until June 27 of that year. In addition, even the teams without a social media Pride message still include merch one can obtain, and someone wearing a Chiefs T-shirt with a rainbow arrowhead around town may make a more powerful statement than the team failing to share a Pride message.

Instead of trying to read some overarching message into whether a social media share means something, let’s commemorate the tea

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