Jason Collins' big year continues to get bigger and bigger.
The NBA player, who made history in April as the first male U.S. athlete in a major professional sport to come out as gay, marched in the 2013 Boston Pride Parade on Saturday alongside his former Stanford University roommate, Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass).
After the parade, Kennedy tweeted a photo of himself with Collins, a former Boston Celtics player, and noted it was a day he'd "never forget":
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Watch a report from WCVB TV, which notes that the parade had a record number of attendees, above.
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