'I had no idea he was gay': Jason Collins' ex-fiancee and partner of eight years

Comments from recently out of the closet NBA star Jason Collins cause Freepers to grapple briefly with the idea that sexual orientation may be a continuum, not a binary, but then find an avenue to arrive at some racist misogyny, and so that ends quickly.

Red Badger knows all gay men have AIDS:

She better get a HIV test.................

Jeez, longfellow - every mention of a gay dude means Freepers gotta bring up Obama!

Bath house barry called jason, probably for some one on one.

Intolerant in NJ thinks this is all a hoax:

maybe he isn't - apparently a so-so player scoring less than an everage two points a game - maybe felt the axe was going to fall on his career soon - coming out as gay means he can't be "discriminated against" by being cut because of homophobia for the next year at least......

GOPsterinMA is absolutely sure this is all staged to get awesome gay benefits:

Like I said yesterday, this whole thing is bullsh*t. This benchwarmer is looking to get paid.

The guy’s not a puff. Rock Hudson marrying his agent’s secretary for 9 months - fake. I get it; she was a beard.

This sh*tzipper being together with a woman for 8 YEARS? NO WAY!!!

Take the “married” poofs that I know. The “man” was normal before and was engaged to be married to a woman before he switched sides. They were going out/engaged for ~2 years. I guess you could fake it for 2 years. 8 years? Nope.

This whole thing is a scam.

mbarker12474 with the self-refuting statement - "the only reason gays are closeted these days is because they know they're evil!"

Okay, seriously, nowadays, I don’t understand why those who are homosexual [can't] just come out, it’s not as if every gay newscaster gets stoned on his way home from work just for coming out. ....

Well said. Good question. From a media perspective, gays who come out are thought of as heroic.

I'll offer this:

No matter how many gay-friendly books and articles you read, no matter how many gay-friendly television shows you watch, no matter how many counselors and psychiatrists and pastors and friends and colleagues and activist groups you have surrounding you, repeating the mantra that homosexuality is healthy, wholesome, normal, and natural, you will ALWAYS and FOREVER know in some kernal of your consciousness that homosexuality is a perversion of human sexuality. It will ALWAYS bother you. And so it will take some nerve to come out publicly. Even if the entire world was free of so-called right-wing, hate-filled, homophobic, religious bigots.

Vendome foudn a pic of the girlfriend, and thinks the problem may be lack of breasts.

That bra is very padded...

Wonder who is making up for short comings?

Venturer follows up with some racism:

Maybe now she will stop being a white trash groupie hanging around locker rooms hoping to pick up some B-ball player.

oh8eleven:

Sooo, blonde white chick not only got engaged to a black man, she picked one who's queer.
Words fail me.

Words fail me, too, ya refuge from Jim Crow.