NBA center Jason Colls on Monday announced that he's gay a story for Sports Illtrated, beg the first active player one of the four major Amerin profsnal team sports to announce that he is gay.
Contents:
- JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
- GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER: TW BROTHER JARRON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT JASON COLLS
- HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
- JASON COLLS, FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE TO PLAY NBA, MAK U.S. SPORTS HISTORY
- GAY KENTUCKY BASKETBALL PLAYER OUT AT A GAME, GETS CHASED BY OPPOSG TEAM
JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
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GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER: TW BROTHER JARRON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT JASON COLLS
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Jason Colls says he's news servicApr 29, 2013, 11:46 AM ETNBA center Jason Colls on Monday announced that he's gay a story for Sports Illtrated, beg the first active player one of the four major Amerin profsnal team sports to announce that he is gay.
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HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
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"Jason's announcement today is an important moment for profsnal sports and the history of the LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr] muny, " he said a statement. "He said the first relative he told he was gay was his nt Teri, who is a superr urt judge San Francis.
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"Colls said he realized he need to make his sexual orientatn public when his former roommate at Stanford, Massachetts ngrsman Joe Kennedy, who is straight, marched Boston's Gay Pri Para last Boston Marathon bombgs earlier this month then rerced to him "that I shouldn't wa for the circumstanc of my g out to be perfect. "When I told Joe a few weeks ago that I was gay, he was grateful that I tsted him. Colls says he quietly ma a statement for gay rights even while keepg his sexual orientatn a secret.
98 wh the Celtics and Wizards -- 1998 was the year that Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt Wyomg, was killed, and the Trevor Project, a suici preventn anizatn, was found. "When I was playg, I had never had nversatns around what meant to be gay. "Sayg 'I'm gay' sets a new standard of honty, openns and teamwork that will posively affect athlet and fans at every level of sports.
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GAY KENTUCKY BASKETBALL PLAYER OUT AT A GAME, GETS CHASED BY OPPOSG TEAM
He is the first athlete team sports to reveal his homosexualy, while still the midst of his playg his entire time the NBA, Colls had never admted to beg gay. For the first 33 years, he also kept this secret om his tw brother and former profsnal basketball player, Jarron the latt edn of Sports Illtrated, Jarron talks about the time Jason told him he was gay.