Jason Collins Interview 2013: First Gay Pro Athlete Speaks With 'GMA,' George Stephanopoulos Veteran NBA player is the first openly gay professional athlete in the four major American sports.

Collins’s Brooklyn Debut Recalls Robinson’s in 1947 The Nets’ Jason Collins, the N.B.A.’s first publicly gay player, will make his initial Barclays Center appearance with the team Monday.

Collins’s Brooklyn Debut Recalls Robinson’s in 1947 The Nets’ Jason Collins, the N.B.A.’s first publicly gay player, will make his initial Barclays Center appearance with the team Monday.

Jason Collins remembers the words of support he got after coming out as gay in 2013, and has spread that message in the years since. “In my opinion, out of all the major professional leagues, I ...

At 9 a.m. last Friday the writer Franz Lidz drove to the Los Angeles home of Jason Collins with a completed draft of a story on which the two had collaborated two days earlier.

It's been more than a week now since Jason Collins put his name above the words: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." You've had more than a week of arguments, at dinner parties ...

Veteran NBA center Jason Collins came out as gay Monday in Sports Illustrated Collins has played 713 NBA games over 12 seasons He might be best remembered for playing with twin Jarron at Stanford ...

Reaction from NBA veteran Jason Collins' first-person account published in Sports Illustrated, as he came out as the first gay male player in the four major United States professional sports: --- ...

Jason Collins becomes first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport. April 29, 2013— -- Washington Wizards center Jason Collins told ABC News it's "mind-boggling" to be the first ...

When Jason Collins publicly came out as a gay man last month in Sports Illustrated, he received (for the most part) lots of support from his family, friends, teammates and even President Barack Obama!