Jason Collins Is America's First Openly Gay Male Pro Athlete
When I went on Twitter earlier this morning, #timtebow and #thegayathlete were both trending and I thought to myself, "FINALLY!" But no, those hash tags had nothing to do with each other. 34-year-old Jason Collins, an NBA center and current free agent who has played for the Wizards, the Celtics and the Nets, has come out on the cover of Sports Illustrated and is now the first openly gay professional athlete in America's four major sports league. Typing that in 2013 feels weird, because there should be openly gay pro athletes everywhere.
In a piece that may seem tl;dr-ish but is incredibly thoughtful and worth the read, Jason Collins writes about how he came out to his identical twin brother, his memaw and his mother and how the Boston Marathon bombings inspired him to come out, because life's too short to not proudly tell everyone that you love peen.
The recent Boston Marathon bombing reinforced the notion that I shouldn't wait for the circumstances of my coming out to be perfect. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully? When I told Joe [as in Joe Kennedy, his roommate at Stanford) a few weeks ago that I was gay, he was grateful that I trusted him. He asked me to join him in 2013. We'll be marching on June
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