Jason Collins opened a door. Many LGBTQ athletes still don’t feel safe walking through it more than a decade later

athletic spaces.

Johnson remembers Collins as happy, humble and “the biggest hero in the room.” She says he helped to usher in an era of visibility for LGBTQ athletes and broader conversations about identity and politics in and outside of sports.

Now, she says that era appears to have come to an end, at least in some places, as the current political continue reading …