Ever since Jason Collins announced he was a professional basketball player who happens to be gay, his identical brother has had to explain, to some, they have the wrong man.

Los Angeles Pride has announced 2013’s honor award winners and Grand Marshal for this year’s pride march.

Straight allies of the LA gay community have been honoured along with several LGBT organisations for their community service, pride organizers Christopher Street West told GSN.

Among the honourees are a Super Bowl champion, USA’s first openly gay congressman and an 11-year-old transgender girl who fought for identity in school.

Two of the world’s best tennis players Roger Federer and Andy Murray believe there would be no problem with an out gay tennis player.

According to OutSports.com, the second and third-ranked tennis players in the world were asked at the Italian Open their thoughts on openly gay tennis players in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

‘I think everyone has gotten better at dealing with it,’ Murray said. ‘More and more players have come out and I think there has to be some players that are probably gay.

The news that NBA star Jason Collins has come out as gay generated a frenzy of headlines, reports and comments that is still continuing.

I want to understand the excitement. But there are still questions I have as an openly black gay man living in Europe. These questions were put into perspective when I had a conversation with a white gay friend of mine.

Casey Stoney said that recent coming out by leading sportsmen is encouraging but more work against homophobia needs to be done and lessons can be learnt from women’s football.

The England and Lincoln Ladies captain told the BBC that ‘things are moving in the right direction regarding homophobia in sport’ following the coming out of NBA basketball star Jason Collins and Leeds footballer, Robbie Rogers.

If Kevin Grayson had not torn a ligament and missed being drafted by the NFL, he might very well have become that US football league's first openly gay player.

Instead, the former star wide receiver for the University of Richmond (2008-2011) played for the Parma Panthers in Italian Football League last season where he was MVP.

Either way, he is now out and proud.

Grayson says he wants other athletes to know 'just because you're gay doesn't mean you can't be the athlete you want to be. Doesn't mean you can't be a star.'

NBA legend Magic Johnson appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Monday (6 May) to promote his new Aspire TV network but there were some gay topics to discuss first.

Leno asked the retired Los Angeles Lakers star to weigh in on the coming out of Jason Collins last week. Collins is the first openly gay NBA player in history.

‘It’s great now that he’s out,’ Johnson said. ‘He can be free and just be himself. We in the NBA, we all support him. I’m happy for him because he seems now happy.'

Brendon Ayanbadejo, a Super Bowl champion and ally to the LGBT community, spoke to the host of the Sunday News program Meet the Press about the significance of basketball player Jason Collins announcement that he's gay.

Sports Illustrated may have landed Jason Collins for his coming out story but it is Oprah Winfrey who managed to get his family together for a joint interview.

Winfrey's chat with the first openly gay active player in NBA history, his parents, twin brother, sister-in-law and aunt for Oprah's Next Chapter which will air Sunday (5 May) on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Winfrey asked parents Paul and Portia Collins if when their son came out to them last summer if there was 'a releasing of the dream ... of who he would be walking down the aisle with.'

Robbie Rogers, a former midfielder for the US national team who retired after coming out as gay in February, may be planning a return to the sport.

Rogers, 25, has been training with the Major League Soccer team Los Angeles Galaxy this week - the same week in which the NBA's Jason Collins also came out as gay.

If Rogers, who most recently played in England for Leeds United, resumes his professional playing career, he will be the first openly gay male player in the US to do so.

Since no other male professional athlete in the US had come out during their playing careers, NBA player Jason Collins had to look back at a female superstar who did it 33 years ago.

That is Martina Navratilova who in 1981 came out publicly at the age of 23. She had two Wimbledon singles crown to her credit at the time and would go on to win 16 more grand slam singles titles as an openly gay athlete.

Retired NFL player LeRoy Butler decision to send a tweet of support to now openly-gay NBA player Jason Collins has cost him an $8,500 speaking gig at a Wisconsin church.

Butler, who played safety for the Green Bay Packers, does not name the church but he took to Twitter today to share the fallout from the tweet to which simply read: 'Congrats to Jason Collins.'

Apparently some parents saw the tweet and complained to the church.