Basketball
player Jason Collins will be on the Video Music Awards' stage tonight.
The first active NBA player to come out gay will introduce
Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis. According to the site NewNowNext,
the hip-hop duo will perform Same Love.
This will be the first time Mackelmore and Lewis will appear on the
MTV award show. Joining them on stage will be Seattle-based
singer-songwriter Mary Lambert.
The VMAs will air tonight (25 August) at 9pm, local time, from
Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Same Love is nominated in the Best Video with a Social Message
category.
Collins, who came out in a Sports Illustrated cover story, is still
without a contract. However, NBC
News reports, the odds are in his favor to be with a team before
training camp starts next month.
In an interview with Gay Star News, culture blogger Juice with Junior noted how
the cultural landscape has changed in the past decade for LGBT equality.
'Ten years ago this pairing would have been a punch line,' Junior
said. 'Mackelmore and Lewis are popular and so is Collins. It will be just be
another part of the broadcast. That's a sign of great progress.'
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