Jason Collins marries long-time boyfriend Brunson Green in a beautiful Texas wedding
Jason Collins and Brunson Green have been together for about a decade. They are now husbands after a lovely wedding in Texas. The post Jason Collins marries long-time boyfriend Brunson Green in a beautiful Texas wedding appeared first on Outsports.
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Jason Collins is a married man. The first publicly out active gay NBA player married his husband, film producer Brunson Green, over the weekend in Austin, Texas, where they now live.
Collins and Green have been a couple for about a decade. They got engaged to marry, according to some people who say they were there, at the Los Angeles Lakers Pride Night in 2023.
The newlyweds have not posted much about the wedding on social media, though Collins has shared a bunch of Instagram stories showcasing the love brought to him and Green by attendees including friends, family and long-time New Jersey Nets teammate Richard Jefferson. The two were part of the first-ever Nets team to go to the NBA Finals.
The rehearsal dinner was apparently a hoot, with two local drag queens re-enacting the flying-carpet scene from the Disney movie, Aladdin.
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For those not familiar with Green, he was a producer on the wildly successful film The Help, which followed Black maids working for White families in the South. The film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and PGA Awards. Starring Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone, it was also a box office smash, earning $216 million on a $25 million production budget.
His upcoming film, Regretting You, is currently in production.
Collins broke an incredible barrier in 2013 with a Sports Illustrated cover coming out publicly to the world. At the time he was a free agent, eventually signed by the Brooklyn Nets. That team went to the second round of the NBA Playoffs that year with Collins playing, signaling clearly that an out gay man could be welcomed — and successful — in major American men’s pro sports.
Since then, Collins has completely embraced his potential to build LGBTQ acceptance in sports. I’d go so far as to say that no professional athlete has made themselves as accessible and available to the LGBTQ community than Collins. He has worked with the NBA for years, representing the league at various events, most recently an LGBTQ youth clinic at the men’s NCAA basketball Final Four.
On a personal note, Collins has been incredibly kind to Outsports and to me. He’s met up to watch the NFL, celebrated my birthday at my home watching the NBA Playoffs. We’ve even gone to church together. No athlete has been more generous with their time to me, and everyone seems to have a story of meeting him, and falling in love with his laugh and smile.
Jason Collins is a treasure to the LGBTQ community and the NBA, and it brings everyone at Outsports joy to see him finding happiness. We wish him and Green a lifetime of happiness, love and support.
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