Brittney Griner in ESPN Short Film

Playoffs for the WNBA start in less than a month and ESPN has done a short film out basketball star Brittney Griner.  It covers female athletes throughout history and how awful gender discrimination has been and continues to be.  The fact that female professional basketball players have to play in China in the off season to supplement their income is absurd.  It is far from the story of professional male basketball players who reap the rewards of simply being born the sport preferred gender. 

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Jason Collins - It Got Better

Jason Collins blows away gay stereotypes by being a professional basketball player in the NBA.  He figured out he was gay at 16 but waited another 18 years to come out.  He is absolutely adorable.

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Jason Collins Signed for Remainder of Season

Jason Collins was originally signed to a ten game stint with the Brooklyn Nets.  He is the first openly gay professional Basketball player in the NBA and I was really worried this would affect his chances of continuing.  I am happy to say that my worries were proven false and the Nets have signed Jason for the remainder of the season.  

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Jason Collins Finally Gets Game Time

Jason Collins came out at the end of last season and was sitting unsigned as a free agent until this past Sunday.  He was finally taken by the Brooklyn Nets and given his chance on the court.  He played for just under 11 minutes in his first game but didn't score a point.  That being said he had two rebounds and made a steal, hopefully next game he will blow them away.  I think it's sad that he was unsigned for so long because I truly believe it was a result of his coming out.  I'm hoping now that we can say there is an openly gay NBA player, the stigma will lesson and it won't matter who you love but how you play.

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Seimone Augustus Speaks Out

Seimone Augustus plays basketball in the WNBA and she can't wrap her mind around why anyone would deny her marriage.  I don't get it either but despite what I think, I don't run the world.

I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's lives. Is it a scare of, "Gay people are going to be running around and everyone's going to turn gay?" I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

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Melissa March Comes Out

Australian basketball player Melissa Marsh has decided to publicly come out....as straight. I know you are thinking the same as me, what the hell? She is making this statement because she feels it is a sad reality that the first thing that pops in ones mind about top female athletes is their sexual orientation. Hmmm, maybe if people weren't homophobic it wouldn't matter either way and no one would have to come out as gay or straight. At least she's a good ball player, I don't think her intelligence is going to take her very far.
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