I want to march for tolerance, acceptance and understanding. I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. What a shame to have to lie at a celebration of pride. “If I’d been questioned, I would have concocted half truths.
“I was proud of him for participating but angry that as a closeted gay man I couldn’t even cheer my straight friend on as a spectator,” he wrote.
In the SI article that Collins wrote telling the world that he was gay, he mentioned that Kennedy - who is straight - marched in the 2012 parade, yet Collins did not feel like he could join him. He was with Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy III, who was his roommate back in his college days at Stanford.
The Times Daily reports that Collins was “chatting with well-wishers, greeting other marchers and holding babies as people came up to him to express their support.” Wearing a Nike t-shirt with “#betrue” printed on it, Collins joined thousands as they walked down the streets of downtown Boston. Jason Collins, the first player in a major American team sport to come out as gay, marched in Boston’s gay pride parade on Saturday.
