Magic Johnson

• Birth date: 1959
  

“He was, like, squeezing all the air out of me. That’s when I knew, there’s nothing but love here.”

Los Angeles Dodgers VP Erik Braverman popped the question to his engineer-model-photographer boyfriend Jonathan Cottrell in Las Vegas. Cottrell happily said yes.

The NBA legend said “It’s all about you not trying to decide what your daughter or son should be or what you want them to become.”

“I made peace with God with it,” Cookie Johnson tells Oprah Winfrey. “So I’m good.”

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling repeatedly disparaged Magic Johnson’s HIV-positive status in an interview that aired Monday, saying he was not a fit role model for children and dismissing his work in business and charity.

LOS ANGELES — The 20-year-old son of basketball great Magic Johnson is surprised by the public interest in his being gay, something that he revealed to his supportive family several years ago.

Former NBA star Magic Johnson said Thursday that he’s known “for a long, long time” that his 20-year-old son E.J. is gay, and said he and his wife Cookie made it clear long ago that E.J.’s entire family loved and supported him.