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NBA center Jason Collins says he is gay
NBA center Jason Collins, who played for the Washington Wizards last season, has become the first male athlete still active in a major professional sport to come out as gay. Collins made his announcement to Sports Illustrated, which will feature Collins...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Yvette Prieto, Jason Collins, Sports Illustrated, Boston
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Veteran center Collins reveals he is gay
ReutersThe Sports Xchange EditorsNote: Update 3: Statements from Hawks, Wizards Veteran center Collins reveals he is gay Free agent center Jason Collins revealed to Sports Illustrated last week that he is gay. Collins' revelation was announced Monday....Tags: National Basketball Association, U.S. Supreme Court, Jason Collins, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage
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NBA roundup: Center Collins reveals he's gay
ReutersThe Sports Xchange NBA roundup: Center Collins reveals he's gay Free agent center Jason Collins revealed to Sports Illustrated last week that he is gay. Collins' revelation was announced Monday. Collins wrote this week's cover story for the magazine...Tags: National Basketball Association, Jason Collins, New York Knicks, Kirk Hinrich, Joseph P. Kennedy
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Jason Collins to lead Boston Gay Pride Parade?
Pop2it"I want to march for tolerance, acceptance and understanding," says NBA center Jason Collins of the Boston Pride Parade. "I want to take a stand and say, 'Me, too.'"... -
NBA's Jason Collins: 'I'm gay'
Jason Collins, a 34-year-old center who has played for six teams in 12 seasons in the NBA, disclosed in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, that he is gay, becoming the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American sport. Collins, writing a...
Tags: Basketball, National Basketball Association, Jason Collins, Sports Illustrated, 2011 NBA Lockout
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Washington Wizards' Jason Collins announces he's gay
Washington Wizards center Jason Collins has become the first active player in a major American sports league to acknowledge that he is gay, according to Sports Illustrated's website. In a story appearing in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated and...Tags: National Basketball Association, Periodicals, Jason Collins, Sports Illustrated, Boston
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Eschew on this: The grand marshal of world-weariness says it’s OK to hate parades and stay home
Change of SubjectFriday's print column Chicago’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will step off at noon Saturday from the intersection of Balbo and Columbus Drives in Grant Park and head north about half a mile to Monroe Drive. You couldn’t pay me...... -
I hate a parade!
Change of SubjectThe South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade was Sunday. Chicago's St. Patrick's Day Parade will be Saturday. You couldn't pay me to go to either of them or to any of the various parades held throughout the year in...... -
Chicago plan to double fines for drinking, peeing near parades advances
RedEyeParade-goers drinking in the street could get slapped with a fine of up to $1,000 under a proposal advanced Thursday by a key City Council committee. The original proposal would have doubled the fines for drinking in the public way and public...Tags: Punishment, Festive Events, South Side Irish Parade, Fines, Arts and Culture
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Jeanne Manford dies at 92; co-founder of group for parents of gays
Her message was as simple as it was powerful, a quiet, courageous statement of unconditional love. Walking alongside her son in an early New York City gay pride parade in 1972, elementary school teacher Jeanne Manford carried a sign she had written...Tags: Human Interest, Justice and Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Manhattan (New York City), Barack Obama
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Clash over same-sex marriage motivates voters
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage. Reverberations from that...Tags: Deerfield Beach, Family, Gays and Lesbians, Barack Obama, John McCain
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Pussy Riot and the politics of grrrl punk
I wonder, as they sit in their separate cells, what songs the three jailed members of Pussy Riot sing to themselves to keep their spirits strong. My vote: “Resist Psychic Death” by the early 1990s punk feminist band Bikini Kill. The verse...
Tags: Human Interest, Christian Orthodoxy, Punk (genre), Yoko Ono, Human Rights
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