RT @amhistorymuseum@twitter.com
There’s a hidden message on Jason Collins’ jersey. The basketball player selected number 98 as an homage to Matthew Shepard, a gay young man who was murdered in 1998.
In 2013, Collins became one of the first male major league athletes to publicly announce he was gay. #Pride
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