Several months after The Gay Women Channel's "First Gay Hug: A Homophobic Experiment" went viral on YouTube, one of the actresses that appeared on it claimed the "social experiment" was fake.

April Lee told Fox News the "real homophobic people" in the viral video were actors who received direction to create characters and improvise scenes over numerous takes.

Less than a week after the video was posted on March 15, The Gay Women Channel head Sarah Rotella told USA Today that while there were some actors in the video, none of the dialogue was scripted.

On the other hand, Lee said The Gay Women Channel never mentioned the involvement of actors on their website or in any of their social marketing for the video.

An advocate for the LGBT community for two decades, Lee agreed to play a pair of homophobic Catholic woman and daughter with her real-life six-year-old daughter.

After "First Gay Hug: A Homophobic Experiment" went viral, Lee emailed Rotella to ask why there was no clarification indicated in the video that the "homophobic" characters in it were actually actors.

According to Lee, Rotella replied explaining that doing so would weaken the message of the video.

Despite Lee's complaints about hate mail she received from people who thought she was homophobic, Rotella has yet to issue either an acknowledgment of the "homophobic" characters being portrayed by actors or a public apology.

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