Magic Johnson Supports Son EJ Living His 'Truth' With Powerful Tribute

EJ Johnson has made a big impact on the LGBTQ+ community. The television personality can now add "actor" to his list of accomplishments, but his role as Michael Collins in "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" takes on a special meaning to him. "It's amazing and it's really exciting to bring the character to life and allow young people, who are like me, or similar to me, to see themselves represented. I think another great thing about the character is, as we both kind of shared in high school, that we were just there with the friend group," EJ told Entertainment Tonight.

EJ coming out in 2013 also helped Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade when their daughter Zaya came out as transgender in 2020. Magic Johnson shared with Entertainment Tonight, "We've always been people who try to do the right thing and do the thing we were supposed to do. No way we were not gonna support our son ... And then because of that, Dwyane and Gabs said, 'Oh man, look at that.' We are looking at our part, do our own thing with our own son, so if we can help anybody just by being who we are, just by doing the right thing, that's a good thing and a powerful thing."

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