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

many industries, it was considered very risky for a public person to disclose their sexuality if they were anything other than straight.

“I didn’t want to be first,” Collins recalled during a 2019 WorldPride event. “The first person through the wall is usually bloodied, and I don’t really want to be bloodied.”

Collins announced he was gay in a 2013 essay continue reading …