gay Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Fri, 21 Feb 2014 01:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg gay Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Winter Olympics Spark Discussion Of Gay Rights https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/02/18/1-winter-olympics-spark-discussion-gay-rights/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 02:48:28 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=12426 The Olympics are about athletics and competition.

However, with representatives from so many different countries coming together in one city, it is often about “politics” and “political issues” as well.

In other words, different countries have different rules, laws and beliefs.

Sometimes, countries’ beliefs clash.

That has been the case in Russia at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

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Basketball Player Jason Collins First To Openly Announce He Is Gay https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/30/2-basketball-player-jason-collins-first-to-openly-announce-he-is-gay/ Wed, 01 May 2013 01:32:49 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10214 Jason Collins is a basketball player who played for the Celtics and the Wizards this year.

He’s 34 years old, and he is seven feet tall and weighs 255 pounds.

He is charismatic, intelligent and well educated.

On the court, he is a tough, physical player.

All of those facts describe Collins.

But there is one fact about him that he revealed in Sports Illustrated magazine this week, that relatively few people knew.

Collins is gay.

He is the first male professional athlete, who is still playing a major North American sport, to openly announce that that he is gay.

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