Sporting a t-shirt for Nike's "#BeTrue" campaign, Jason Collins made good on his promise march in Boston's Gay Pride parade on Saturday afternoon.
The 34-year-old NBA center marched in the parade with Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy and thousands of others, who all came out to support the LGBT community's fight for cultural equality. Kennedy, Collins' roommate at Stanford, tweeted out a picture of himself, Collins and two others during the event:
Here is Collins preparing with his old roommate prior to the event, via his Twitter feed:
The Boston parade, organized by BostonPride.org, is a yearly event that allows people from all walks of life—gay or straight—to come out and celebrate the cause. Boston Pride also holds a festival accompanying the parade.
Collins came out a gay man publicly for the first time in a first-person story written for Sports Illustrated in April. With that decision, Collins became the first openly gay male athlete in any of the United States' four major professional sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB).
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Jason Collins Participates in Boston’s Gay Pride Parade
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