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Jason Collins, the first out gay basketball player in America’s NBA, has died · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 5: got top queer credentials first, though, Jason Collins, the first
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  Speaker 5: out gay basketball player in America's NBA, has died. The
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  Speaker 5: forty seven year old was diagnosed with an aggressive brain
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  Speaker 5: cancer called glioblastow ls December. He'd been trying experimental targeted
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  Speaker 5: chemotherapy in Singapore to buy himself some more time. Jason
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  Speaker 5: came out in twenty thirteen, a year before he retired.
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  Speaker 6: Towards the end of his career. He just said, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm living in the closet is not living
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  Speaker 6: at all, and I am going to be who I am.
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  Speaker 6: His whole life opened up. You know, you got calls
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  Speaker 6: from Oprah, from President Obama back in the day, and
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  Speaker 6: they said, you know what you just did is going
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  Speaker 6: to help not only you, but somebody you maybe have
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  Speaker 6: never met.
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  Speaker 5: Jason's friend ESPN's Ramona Shelbourne. His former club, the Brooklyn Nets,
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  Speaker 5: have put out a statement saying they're heartbroken. He married
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  Speaker 5: film producer Brunson Green just under a year ago. Pride
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  Speaker 5: Daily next Spain's now the top rated country in Europe
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to LGBTQ plus rights. So if you
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  Speaker 5: go by the yearly rainbow map from advocacy organization ILGA Europe,
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  Speaker 5: which also puts Malta, Iceland, Belgium and Denmark in the
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  Speaker 5: top five. Malta had been leading for ten years. Spain's
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  Speaker 5: brought in new legal protections, equality plans and reforms to
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  Speaker 5: trans gender healthcare. Bottom of the list, you've got Russia,
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  Speaker 5: Surprise Pride Daily and gay Slovakian politician Mikal Sarbou has
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  Speaker 5: got married. The thirty four year old had to go
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  Speaker 5: to Austria to tire the nott with Mikhal chev Cheek though,
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  Speaker 5: because there's no same sex marriage in their home country.
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  Speaker 5: Sabo's from the left wing Progressive Slovakia Party, the main opposition.
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  Speaker 5: He came out last year and used to be a
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  Speaker 5: TV presenter. We're also when you're smart speaker, command it
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  Speaker 5: you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: This is what your Wednesday morning could sound like on
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: a short break in Ireland. It's the sound of breakfast
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  Speaker 1: you didn't make at a time you didn't set an
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  Speaker 1: alarm for it. No school room, no early calls, just
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: sleeping in then deciding what to do for the day
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: over a feast of eggs and bacon, and Wednesday morning
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  Speaker 1: that's total and utter bliss.
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  Speaker 2: Find yourself carefree on a short break in Ireland. Visit
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  Speaker 2: discover Iarland dot i e