Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran who played for the Minnesota Timberwolves for one season, has come out as the first openly gay male athlete still active in a major American team sport.
'I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black and I'm gay,' Collins writes in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. The magazine published the article online Monday, April 29.
The announcement makes Collins a pioneer of sorts: the first player in the NBA, the NFL, the NHL or Major League Baseball to come out while still pursuing his career.
Other gay athletes, including the former NBA center John Amaechi, have waited until retirement to divulge their sexual orientation publicly.
The announcement followed recent decisions by two other prominent athletes -- the U.S. soccer player Robbie Rogers and the women's basketball player Brittney Griner -- to acknowledge that they are gay.
When Rogers, 25, revealed last month that he is gay, he also said he was retiring from soccer. (He has since indicated he may play again.) Griner, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, will soon embark on her professional career.
Collins, who split this season between the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards, will become a free agent on July 1. He intends to pursue another contract in the summer, which may serve as a test for how NBA teams respond to the announcement.
In his essay, Col.
Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran who played for the Minnesota Timberwolves for one season, has come out as the first openly gay male athlete still active in a major American team sport.
'I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black and I'm gay,' Collins writes in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. The magazine published the article online Monday, April 29.
The announcement makes Collins a pioneer of sorts: the first player in the NBA, the NFL, the NHL or Major League Baseball to come out while still pursuing his career.
Other gay athletes, including the former NBA center John Amaechi, have waited until retirement to divulge their sexual orientation publicly.
The announcement followed recent decisions by two other prominent athletes -- the U.S. soccer player Robbie Rogers and the women's basketball player Brittney Griner -- to acknowledge that they are gay.
When Rogers, 25, revealed last month that he is gay, he also said he was retiring from soccer. (He has since indicated he may play again.) Griner, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, will soon embark on her professional career.
Collins, who split this season between the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards, will become a free agent on July 1. He intends to pursue another contract in the summer, which may serve as a test for how NBA teams respond to the announcement.
In his essay, Col
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The first day of First Grade in elementary school is one that I remember vividly. Not because I was the new kid in school that spoke no English and I was wearing a hideous light blue kiddie leisure suit that my mom forced me to put on, but because I met an amazing individual who for many years after that was my official BFF. This person had a hard to pronounce Russian name, was wearing pants, a red polo shirt, and sported a perfectly shaved head (I suspect as a result of lice), so before being troubled by the thought of how the heck I was supposed to communicate with this group, or when was my mother going to buy me a uniform, I was challenged by the mystery of “Sasha”. Was this “Sasha” person a boy or a girl? I observed keenly; heedful of any signs that would give him or her away. This person doodled in her books like everybody else, ignored the teacher like everybody else, stuck gum under the desk like everybody else, and pulled on Pilar’s pony tail just like everybody else. There was no obvious tell. Frustrated at my lack of results, I just went ahead and asked. I got slapped. A boy would’ve punched me. Sasha was a girl and we became best friends.
My first reaction to the news that Jason Collins is gay was: Who’s Jason Collins? So of course, I asked Professor Google and immediately got the whole story. Even though I know this is probably “the moment” of his life, I want to believe most people will react to these 'moments' much like his Aunt Teri: &
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Washington Wizards center Jason Collins became the first professional male athlete on a major American team sports to come out of the closet as gay in an exclusive piece this week in Sports Illustrated. Collins -- who is 34 -- has spent 12 seasons in the NBA, playing for six different teams in America's premiere basketball league.
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' In 12 seasons as an N.B.A. player, Jason Collins has never been an All-Star or a scoring leader or even a full-time starter, but on Monday he shattered one of the last great barriers in professional sports.
'I'm a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I'm black and I'm gay,' Collins, who finished this season with the Washington Wizards, writes in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. The magazine published the article online Monday morning.'*
Jason Collins is now the first openly gay athlete in a major sport. Is this groundbreaking? Or not a big deal in this age? What must it have been like to hide being gay in a professional sports career, and will his improve now? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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