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- MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON: 'HE CHANGED ME'
- MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON EJ: ‘HE CHANGED ME’
- MAGIC JOHNSON TALKS ABOUT G TO LOVE HIS GAY SON
- MAGIC JOHNSON ON GAY SON EJ: 'I WAS JT WAG ON HIM TO TELL ME' (VIDEO)
- MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON
- MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SON: ‘I’M BEHD HIM ONE MILLN PERCENT’
- MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SON
- MICHAEL JORDAN TURNS TO MAGIC JOHNSON FOR ADVICE ON DEALG WH GAY DGHTER
- MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SON EJ COMG OUT AS GAY
- MAGIC JOHNSON SAYS SON EJ G OUT AS GAY 'CHANGED' HIM: 'HE WAS JT SO PROUD'
- MAGIC JOHNSON: ‘WE KNEW EJ WAS GAY FOR A LONG TIME’
- MAGIC JOHNSON'S CHRISTIAN FAH, GAY SON, AND HOW HE LOV BOTH
- MICHAEL JORDAN TURNED TO MAGIC JOHNSON FOR ADVICE ON GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 25, 2013/11:40 AMBY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 25, 2013 / 11:40 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"MICHAEL JORDAN TURNED TO MAGIC JOHNSON FOR ADVICE ON GAY DGHTER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-09-25T15:40:06.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-09-25T15:40:06.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MICHAEL JORDAN HAS ASKED MAGIC JOHNSON FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO TALK TO HIS GAY DGHTER, CLAIMS THE NATNAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WOULD MAKE SENSE AS BOTH BIG-TIME BALLERS HAVE OPENLY GAY CHILDREN: JORDAN'S LLEGE-AGED DGHTER, JASME, ME OUT ON INSTAGRAM THIS MONTH AND JOHNSON'S SON EJ ME OUT OVER THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: DID MICHAEL JORDAN'S DGHTER, JASME, JT COME OUT?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MAGIC REPORTEDLY UNSELED THE OTHER MJ TO “JT LOVE HER AND LET HER KNOW THAT SHE OW TO HERSELF TO BE 100 PERCENT GENUE AND LIVE HER LIFE TO THE FULLT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JASME HAS RECENTLY POSTED ADORABLE PICTUR OF HERSELF AND MORED GIRLIEND CARMEN TYSON-THOMAS, SAYG: “THIS LTLE CLOSET IS HOLDG ME BACK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AN SIR CLAIMS JORDAN IS "HAVG MIXED EMOTNS" ABOUT THE SUATN: “MICHAEL LOV ALL OF HIS KIDS UNNDNALLY, BUT HE WAS SHOCKED TO FD OUT ABOUT JASME," SAYS THE SOURCE. HE NEVER SAW G. MICHAEL AND [EX-WIFE] JUANA ARE BOTH AT A LOSS, AND THEY’RE NCERNED ABOUT HOW THIS WILL AFFECT JASME’S FUTURE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S 2013, AND SHE'S THE DGHTER OF A MULTILNAIRE—WE KDA DON'T THK WILL AFFECT HER FUTURE A WHOLE LOT. CERTALY NOT AS MUCH AS FEELG ALIENATED BY HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON: 'HE CHANGED ME'
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Taylor had lost gay iends to the he was 15, his mother ught him starg at boys on a vatn Hawaii and iated a nversatn, but Mr. It wasn’t until three years later, when he was about to leave for New York Universy, that he me out cisively to both father, perhaps wary of the stigma faced by gay men bee of his H.
MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON EJ: ‘HE CHANGED ME’
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” Nowadays, both parents are publicly supportive, but EJ has stopped attendg the Wt Angel Church of God Christ, where his parents are star ngregants, sayg, “I remember stg there sermons and hearg some ls than reputable thgs about homosexuals. ’” Neverthels, he weled the opportuny to enter the limelight, tellg Howard Bragman, a public relatns veteran who has a YouTube show on gay issu: “I’m revelg , and I’m makg work to my advantage. ” EJ had amb ias for the seri, like visg a vogue ball and explorg the challeng that “femme queens” face the gay datg, a foreeable twist, he was dismayed at how the show portrayed him.
It would be well timed, sce the fashn dtry has lately embraced androgyny wh gto, though sometim ways that gay and transgenr advot fd exploative. In 2013, Johnson's son EJ publicly me out as gay, and the seri explor how the basketball in's ial reactn was not one of acceptance. “Very European, ” says EJ Johnson, the son of Magic Johnson, as he rells when he me out as gay to his father.
MAGIC JOHNSON TALKS ABOUT G TO LOVE HIS GAY SON
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Magic Johnson’s offered nothg but love and support when he was first publicly asked about his gay son.
EJ says his parents were the last people to know he was gay. At that pot, the vis was still monly viewed as a gay problem.
“Along the way Magic enuntered the same sort of prejudice and discrimatn that many gay men had to al wh, but not once do I rell Magic nouncg the gay muny orr to ‘clear his name, ’” wrote gay Los Angel sportswrer LZ Granrson 2008. On "Oprah's Next Chapter, " Cookie and Magic open up about how they learned their son was gay and why their love is unndnal.
MAGIC JOHNSON ON GAY SON EJ: 'I WAS JT WAG ON HIM TO TELL ME' (VIDEO)
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"I read a story where you went to him and said, 'Are you gay?
MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON
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" Cookie says she and Magic have known for a long time that their son was gay.
MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SON: ‘I’M BEHD HIM ONE MILLN PERCENT’
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News alum said a jot terview wh his father for Variety, ahead of the April 22 release of They Call Me Magic, an Apple TV Pl doceri about the former NBA player’s life and, who voic the character Michael Colls on The Proud Fay: Lour and Prour reboot, said that he had e out as gay to his iends before openg up to his parents. ”Gay dads?
MICHAEL JORDAN TURNS TO MAGIC JOHNSON FOR ADVICE ON DEALG WH GAY DGHTER
Magic Johnson is loud and proud about his love for his son, 20-year-old New York Universy stunt's sexual orientatn ma headl on Tuday after he was spotted holdg hands wh his boyiend Wt Hollywood … and now the NBA legend says that he uld not be any a new s-down terview wh TMZ's Harvey Lev, Johnson reveals that he and his wife Cookie had "the talk" wh their elst child when he was around 12 or 13-years-old bee they believed he was gay and they wanted him to know that they pletely supported him. "It bothers me that they're discrimatg agast anybody who's gay, " he explaed. "I've been the gay movement for a long time bee of HIV and AIDS.
MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SON EJ COMG OUT AS GAY
Dodgers baseball team, also exprsed his feelgs on homophobia sports and that he hop EJ's g out will spire others … and also spire tolerance. Days after Magic Johnson publicly announced his support for his openly gay son, the basketball legend is openg up about when he learned his son was gay, the backlash sce the news broke and what he thks about athlet g out. Johnson said fay members were prepared for the negative reactn, but they are more foced on the good that may e out of this, cludg more lbians and gays g out to their parents as well as gay athlet steppg out of the closet.
Word on the street is basketball legends Michael Jordan and Earv “Magic” Johnson have veloped a new bond bee of their gay children. “Michael is havg mixed emotns that his only dghter uld be gay, ” a source told NE. The former NBA star, 57, shared what advice he would give to other parents who have a child who is gay.
Earv “EJ” Johnson, the son of basketball superstar Magic Johnson, is talkg about what was like to e out as gay to his famo father back , who starred on the E! While EJ, who is also the son of Magic’s wife Cookie Johnson, said he was out to all of his iends, but that his parents were “the last people” he spoke to about Johnson, the son of basketball legend Magic Johnson, spoke about what was like g out as gay to his father. "The former NBA player, who beme an activist for HIV/AIDS rearch after he publicly announced his HIV posive stat 1991, spoke to The New York Tim 2020 about how he ially thought might be hard for EJ given the stigma around gay men and HIV.
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‘s son, Earv III (also known as EJ), garnered some harsh reactns om a handful of crics, the former Los Angel Lakers superstar is fully supportive of his son g out as a gay man.
Magic creded TMZ for breakg the news and makg possible for the NBA Hall Of Famer to openly support his son and other gay dividuals fearful of g out. "And I go to church, I'm a Christian, but the realy is, my son is gay, " he said. "Johnson also mented, "At the end of our day our muny we have to start acceptg those who are gay our fay.
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MAGIC JOHNSON: ‘WE KNEW EJ WAS GAY FOR A LONG TIME’
Johnson: 'I n only be myself'Associated PrsApr 16, 2013, 09:44 AM ETLOS ANGELES -- The 20-year-old son of basketball great Magic Johnson is surprised by the public tert his beg gay, somethg that he revealed to his supportive fay several years Johnson III, known as E.
J., says he feels like he's g out of the closet a send time and that he's "revelg" the experience -- even though news of his sexual orientatn broke publicly sooner than he had an terview posted Tuday on the talk show "Gwissu, " Johnson said that he didn't feel vlated after TMZ recently revealed that he's gay.
Johnson said he'd like to be "the voice for young gay people who need someone to be on TV or wherever else to talk to them and talk about all kds of issu that all of face and not jt homosexual issu but all kds of issu.
MAGIC JOHNSON'S CHRISTIAN FAH, GAY SON, AND HOW HE LOV BOTH
Durg the nversatn, EJ, who me out as gay 2013, told hostJt Sylvter, "I like myself the way that I am. Michael Jordan has asked Magic Johnson for advice on how to talk to his gay dghter, claims the Natnal would make sense as both big-time ballers have openly gay children: Jordan's llege-aged dghter, Jasme, me out on Instagram this month and Johnson's son EJ me out over the reportedly unseled the other MJ to “jt love her and let her know that she ow to herself to be 100 percent genue and live her life to the fullt.