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Son of basketball great Magic Johnson 'reveling' in public interest about his being gay
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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.
• Earvin Johnson III, known as E.J., says he feels like he's coming out of the closet a second time and that he's "reveling" in the experience -- even though news of his sexual orientation broke publicly sooner than he had planned.
• In an interview posted Tuesday on the Youtube.com talk show "Gwissues," Johnson said that he didn't feel violated after TMZ recently revealed that he's gay.
• "I always wanted to come into the spotlight," he said. "I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience."
• The younger Johnson is a junior at New York University studying event management and design with an interest in fashion, journalism and media.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2013. There are 259 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who'd criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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• On this date:
• In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York.
• In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. The Confederacy conscripted all white men between the ages of 18 to 35.
• In 1879, Bernadette Soubirous, who'd described seeing visions of the Virgin (Continued on page 26)
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