Basketball Player Jason Collins Comes Out
Jason Collins, an NBA athlete, recently came out in an article for Sports Illustrated. In the article Collins says that he wants to be genuine, authentic, and truthful. The reason he has decided to come out now is because of the NBA lockout, he had down time that forced him to focus on himself and not just training for basketball. After coming out to his Aunt, who she said already knew, he started to feel comfortable in his skin for the first time. Collins said he stopped trying to hide…
UFC Athlete Gives Inappropriate Interview
The UFC has been getting a lot of flack lately. Whether it is denying an one-armed undefeated man to compete within the organization or for refusing to allow a transgender woman to compete, people have been voicing their distaste for the organization. Chael Sonnen, a Caucasian UFC fighter, was on ESPN to promote a fight he has coming up against Jon Jones when in the middle of the interview he asked to touch the anchor’s hair. This all seemed harmless so Sage Steele, the African American anchor, leaned her head…
The long journey of becoming a Woman
Cosmopolitan Magazine isn’t really know for it’s hard hitting journalism. Most of the articles inside of Cosmo are about beauty, fashion, dating, and sex. Every so often however, they put out inspiring and beautiful stories about struggle and achievement. Recently they’ve published an article about Laura Jane Grace entitled My First Year as a Woman. Laura Jane Grace was actually born Tommy Gabel. After seeing women like Mia Farrow and Madonna, Tommy would become inspired and dream about becoming these women when he grew up. As he got older Gabel…
John Legend: All men should be feminists
John Legend, an extremely talented musician, is encouraging feminism for everyone and asking men to care more about women’s rights. Recently Legend stated at a press conference for The Sound of Change Live: “All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place.” He also said that if women were more empowered, we would have a better society. The Sound of Change Live is a concert to raise funds and awareness for Chime for Change, a charity that focuses on raising money to…
Magic Johnson Supports the Coming Out of his Son
Retired NBA basketball legend Magic Johnson did an interview recently where he talks about his son EJ coming out publicly for the first time. EJ announced he was gay when gossip site TMZ caught him on the street with his boyfriend walking hand in hand. Johnson shares that he and his wife had known about his son’s sexual orientation since he was 13 years old and have fully supported him. It doesn’t seem like such a newsworthy story for open-minded people, but I think that because our world is still…
