playBeing A Gay Athlete Is Complicated (3:04)Pablo Torre and Kate Fagan discuss the story of openly gay college basketball player, Derrick Gordon and the challenges openly gay athletes encounter. (3:04) Pablo S. TorreOct 27, 2014, 10:00 AM ETEmailPrintThis stor...
LOS ANGELES- Jason Collins became the first openly gay active player in the National Basketball Association, breaking ground in major professional U.S. team sports as the country's growing acceptance of gay rights continues. He entered the first game with his new team Sunday night just hours af...
BROOKLYN (CBS SF) – Jason Collins, the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional sports, has decided to retire from the National Basketball Association. He made the announcement in an article he penned forSports Illustrated, 18 months afterhe came...
UMASS sophomore guard Derrick Gordon came out today as the firstopenly gay player in Division I...Painter, Jill
Jason Collins, the first openly gay athlete in the four major sports, announced his retirement from the NBA in Sports Illustrated.
That is the point — if the vast majority of players were given a gay teammate, and were told to alter some of their language, they would not have a problem with it. There will be bumps in the progress, and one player or another is boun...
Collins was asked if he felt the tide is turning regarding gay players coming out, including Sam. "I hope so. What Michael said was it was about him being a football player and me being a basketball player, and going out there and trying to help our respective teams win," Collins said...
Brian Boitano and Caitlin Cahow are U.S. citizens, former elite athletes and openly gay, and they are completely grounded in why those overlapping identities brought them to Sochi as members of the official U.S. delegation.
Only a handful of Olympic competitors have publicly identified themselves as gay, including Hester, Rapinoe, U.S. basketball player Seimone Augustus, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham and South African archer Karen Hultzer, who came out to the media during the games. ...
Why do people have this absolutely idiotic notion that being gay has any sort of effect on how well a player can play football, or basketball, or baseball? Why the f*** do I even have to write this column for a major news organization to talk about something that shouldn’t even ...