Jason Collins 'I'm Gay', First Openly Gay Male Pro Athlete

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Channel: Secular Talk · 2013 · News & Politics

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Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, is the first active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay.

Collins made the announcement in a first-person essay for Sports Illustrated that appeared online Monday.

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," Collins wrote in the first paragraph of the story that will run in the May 6 issue. It is co-written with Franz Lidz....

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