re: Anyone starting to think Jason Collins is a publicity stunt?

And you know this from your experience as a gay athlete, right?

I have a lot of gay friends. Each of them came out at different points in their lives. One of them is in his forties now and only like two years ago came out to his family. It's different for everyone.

About a decade ago a team mate of mine came out to a few of us. We were all cool about it. A little later he accidentally outted himself to the rest of the team. That didn't go too well because our society was much less tolerant back then. About a decade ago was the start of Jason Collins's career, which is when you propose that he should have come out.

There is a reason that it is verboten to out someone else. They have to do it on their terms at their time.