Jason Collins changed the game with his courage to come out

Jason Collins changed the game with his courage to come out

Jason Collins never won an NBA title or made an All-Star team, and you won't find his name among the career leaders in any statistical category. Yet, his legacy will be as great as that of LeBron James or Steph…

Tributes Pour In For First Out Pro Basketball Player Jason Collins After His Tragic Death At 47

The sports world lost a legend this week. And not just any legend: one who made history.Jason Collins was the first openly gay active NBA player and the first openly gay professional athlete in any of the four major American sports leagues when he publicly came out in April 2013.On Tuesday May 12, Collins' family and his husband, film producer Brunson Green, announced that he had passed away at 47 after a battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive …

How Jason Collins pushed me to face my fears & finally come out as a young sportswriter

As a college sophomore, I processed Jason Collins’ coming out the same way I viewed everything else: how it pertained to me. And initially, the news didn’t make me feel good. For most of my life, I’ve known two things about myself: I’m gay and I love sports. Growing up in the Boston suburbs during the mid-2000s, sports were easier to lean into. So that’s what I did. Except, my obsession didn’t lie with playing the games. I wanted to cover them. …

The world knew Jason Collins for coming out. We knew him for being out.

Jason Collins showed me over and over again who he was away from the crowds, away from the events and away from the headlines and the media. He was a great man who loved people and authenticity, and he was someone who embraced gay, lesbian, bi and trans people for blossoming into their own selves. He inspired that. He encouraged it. The first time I got to see Jason outside all the hubbub was my birthday, I think it was 2015, a couple years afte…