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Tony Manfred. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Loading Something is loading. Email address. But I couldn't yet. My one small gesture of solidarity was to wear jersey number 98 with the Celtics and then the Wizards. The number has great significance to the gay community.
One of the most notorious antigay hate crimes occurred in Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student, was kidnapped, tortured and lashed to a prairie fence.
He died five days after he was finally found. That same year the Trevor Project was founded. This amazing organization provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention to kids struggling with their sexual identity. Trust me, I know that struggle. I've struggled with some insane logic. When I put on my jersey I was making a statement to myself, my family and my friends. Clinton said this today: "I have known Jason Collins since he was Chelsea's classmate and friend at Stanford.
Jason's announcement today is an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community.
It is also the straightforward statement of a good man who wants no more than what so many of us seek: to be able to be who we are; to do our work; to build families and to contribute to our communities.
For so many members of the LGBT community, these simple goals remain elusive. This leaves a major role for environmental factors, or perhaps more genetic factors. By Andy Coghlan Italian geneticists may have explained how genes apparently linked to male homosexuality survive, despite gay men seldom having children.
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