A super dramatic day across the NBA today The news first began to unfold wh the Wizards center Jason Colls bravely beg what is beg regnized as the first player om a major sport the Uned Stat to 'out' himself as gay.
Contents:
- IS LEBRON JAM GAY? BEG AN ALLY OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY SPARKS RUMORS!
- LEBRON JAM ON GAY NBA PLAYERS: JASON COLLS VS. JOHN AMAECHI
- LEBRON JAM OF THE MIAMI HEAT RPONDS TO THE GAY RUMORS
- THE GAY ATHLETE: LEBRON JAM
IS LEBRON JAM GAY? BEG AN ALLY OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY SPARKS RUMORS!
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No, Lebron Jam Is Not Gay.
While Jam has exprsed support for the LGBTQ+ muny, he is not gay. Jason Colls was the first active athlete any of the four major North Amerin profsnal sports leagu to e out as gay, and LeBron Jam tweeted his support for him 2013.
LEBRON JAM ON GAY NBA PLAYERS: JASON COLLS VS. JOHN AMAECHI
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LEBRON JAM OF THE MIAMI HEAT RPONDS TO THE GAY RUMORS
No, LeBron Jam is not gay. Durg the league’s rookie symposium each summer, Taylor, om Athlete Ally, and Jason Colls, a former NBA player who is gay, addrs the g players about rpectg others and g their platforms for support. LeBron Jam, the biggt name and bt player the seri, has spoken publicly about his embrace of openly gay athlet.
Warrrs ownership sought out former Phoenix Suns executive Rick Welts after he me out publicly as gay and hired him as the team print and COO. Welts has not been shy about beg gay and fully supportive of LGBTQ equaly and cln and out of the sports world.
It was Febary 2007, shortly after former NBA center John Amaechi, his tobgraphy lled Man the Middle, beme the first NBA player to e out as gay. While former pot guard Tim Hardaway notorly said “I wouldn’t want him on my team (he later not only apologized but beme a gay rights advote), most big NBA nam, om Shaquille O’Neal to Grant Hill to Charl Barkley, supported Amaechi. “Wh teammat you have to be tstworthy, and if you’re gay and you’re not admtg that you are, then you are not tstworthy, ” LeBron told ESPN, exprsg what was wily nsired the silent player nsens at the time.
THE GAY ATHLETE: LEBRON JAM
Seven years later, when Jason Colls beme the first active gay player the NBA, and Jam had won two NBA tl and four MVP awards, he had a clearer, more empathetic answer: “It was a strong thg to do, ” Jam said.
” The tis had changed the NBA — when Colls announced that he was gay Sports Illtrated, his jersey quickly passed LeBron’s as the top-sellg the league — but LeBron had changed too.