Jason Collins To Sit For ‘GMA’ Interview After Coming Out

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“Good Morning America” has landed an interview with Jason Collins, the NBA center who came out as gay on Monday. ABC said in a statement that the interview will air on Tuesday. 

Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated op-ed, making him the first athlete in U.S. major league sports to do so. “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay,” he wrote in the piece.

“GMA” co-host George Stephanopoulos was soliciting questions on Monday afternoon on Twitter:

 

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