NBA Legend Isiah Thomas' Gay Son Reveals How He Came Out To His Fay - Queerty

Contents:

• NBA LEGEND ISIAH THOMAS’ GAY SON REVEALS HOW HE CAME OUT TO HIS FAY
• MAGIC JOHNSON SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY SON EJ 'A LN PERCENT': 'THIS IS REALLY WONRFUL FOR HIM'
• DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
• NBA STARS DWYANE WA AND MAGIC JOHNSON CELEBRATE THEIR GAY SONS
• MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON
• ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON, ZEKE, IS OFFICIAL DJ FOR THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME
• NBA STAR MAGIC JOHNSON'S OPENLY GAY SON THANKS HIS DAD FOR SUPPORTG HIS COMG OUT
• NBA STAR MAGIC JOHNSON'S PRI AS GAY SON STEPS OUT HAND--HAND WH BOYIEND
• MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON: 'HE CHANGED ME'

NBA LEGEND ISIAH THOMAS’ GAY SON REVEALS HOW HE CAME OUT TO HIS FAY

I me out 2008, my sophomore year at llege. My parents like to say they always knew I was gay. Growg up, I had gay uncl, like every kid Ameri.

Sports legend and AIDS activist Magic Johnson is beg herald by many for supportg his 20-year-old son, EJ, who is openly inic basketball star, 53, gave a lengthy terview to tailg the nversatn he had wh his son at "a young age" about beg gay and the stggl EJ has faced sce.

MAGIC JOHNSON SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY SON EJ 'A LN PERCENT': 'THIS IS REALLY WONRFUL FOR HIM'

"We've known for a long time that my son EJ was gay, " Johnson explaed.

DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME

"Johnson, a longtime ally of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, explaed that his son's experience remd him of the plight of several young men he's enuntered through his "Magic" Johnson wh his son EJ (left); his wife, Cookie Johnson; and their dghter Elisa Johnson.

NBA STARS DWYANE WA AND MAGIC JOHNSON CELEBRATE THEIR GAY SONS

Magic Johnson, a longtime ally of the gay muny, said he is not ncerned how others might view his son.

MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON

In one msage, Howard explas that he’s not gay, he’s “j alil nasty sometim. Harper and Howard, who has never intified as gay or bisexual, met on social media and arranged to have sex.

ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON, ZEKE, IS OFFICIAL DJ FOR THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME

Now I want you to know I’m not gay or anythg. The world woke up Monday to the news that future NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wa is plete support for his son who has announced at 11 years old that he is gay.

This is a stark ntrast om yteryear when Black male figur would shun or even monize their gay children. Earv “Magic” Johnson, 59, may be an NBA legend and bs mogul, but he’s also been a lovg and supportive dad to his openly gay son EJ, now 26.

Magic Johnson shared his experience of learng that his son, Earv “EJ” Johnson, was gay wh Ellen DeGener on her eponymo show. And when his son EJ me out publicly as gay more than 20 years later, the Johnson fay add another meangul layer of visibily to their public EJ’s journey to fdg acceptance wh his fay wasn’t easy.

NBA STAR MAGIC JOHNSON'S OPENLY GAY SON THANKS HIS DAD FOR SUPPORTG HIS COMG OUT

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.

NBA STAR MAGIC JOHNSON'S PRI AS GAY SON STEPS OUT HAND--HAND WH BOYIEND

”Gay dads? They n, technilly, make a straight man gay by sayg, ‘You look like a gay guy, you look like this, ’ and ll you all kd of gay words which is technilly offensive, right?

MAGIC JOHNSON ON LEARNG TO ACCEPT HIS GAY SON: 'HE CHANGED ME'

As soon as I say somethg back that’s gay, I’m f---g nceled. " "If I see a gay du, straight man argug … all right, let’s go, go at , " he said while he mimicked givg both imagary people technil fouls. He jt lled me all kd of f-words and I’m gay and I need to suck this and I need to suck that.

"The terviewer said he talked to a fellow employee who happens to be gay and told a story of the employee llg a suatn gay when he meant stupid or dumb. " Ryan Gaydos is a senr edor for Fox News Digal.