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

“I guess the question is, when will it stop becoming news?”

“We thought that maybe when Jason Collins came out, it would begin a deluge of openness and more players coming out. But it has not.”

Collins first came out to friends and family in 2012, while playing for the Celtics. Same-sex marriage had been banned by the Defense of Marriage Act, and in continue reading …