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"&lt;img alt=\"0501_jason_collins\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/05/01/0501-jason-collins-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not all love for the first major (active) pro athlete to come out of the closet ... NBA player &lt;strong&gt;Jason Collins&lt;/strong&gt; has also been the target of online death threats since announcing he's gay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The homophobic threats began appearing on Twitter right after Jason's big coming-out interview with Sports Illustrated.&amp;#160;Among the venom ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- \"Yous a dead f****t talkn on tv Boy.\"&lt;br /&gt;-- \"Listening to Jason Collins describe his gayness as 'beautiful' makes me wanna puke. And kill him.\"&lt;br /&gt;-- \"Jason collins comes out the closet! Kill that biiitttchhhh!!!\"&lt;br /&gt;-- \"First jason collins say he gay.. Now he on espn w lipgloss on&amp;#160; kill him now !!!\"&lt;br /&gt;-- \"Jason Collins should get the death penalty lol how u a 7 foot gay dude lol the west is crazy smh\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the S.I. article, Collins says he doesn't expect everyone to embrace him ... but it's unclear if he expected this kind of hatred. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We reached out to Collins for comment -- so far, no word back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://photos.toofab.com/galleries/openly_gay_athletes#tab=fab_photos\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0429_openly_gay_athletes_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/04/29/0429-openly-gay-athletes-footer-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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