By g out, 40-year-old Brian Anrson is the first openly gay skateboarr to pete at the mastream level.
Contents:
- 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
- A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
- BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
- PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
- PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR OUT AS GAY
- LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
- BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
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A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
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BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
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She's sce bee a vol gay rights advote and one of the most fluential voic at the tersectn of sports and social movements. In 1999, after his profsnal reer me to a close, Bean me out as gay. After g out 2013, Michael Sam was one of the first publicly gay players high-profile llege football history.
Louis Rams 2014, makg him the first out gay man drafted to the NFL, although he never played a regular-season NFL game.
PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
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Jason Pl Colls spent 13 seasons the NBA and, after g out 2013, beme the first out gay athlete actively playg any of the four major North Amerin pro sports leagu. Olympic skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first out gay man to jo Team USA for a wter Olympics and, Pyeongchang, he beme the first to w a medal at the Gam. Former NFL nng back David Kopay me out as gay 1975, beg one of the first profsnal athlet to publicly e out of the closet.
PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR OUT AS GAY
Former New York Giants and Washgton Redsks guard Roy Simmons me out as gay 1992, well after his NFL reer had e to a close. Amerin mid-distance nner Nikki Hiltz is an out gay woman and an activist.
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LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
Whether the cint was rooted homophobia is unclear, but left Griffh hospalized for four months. He publicly me out as gay 1994 and is a vol gay rights and HIV awarens advote, havg later e out as HIV+ as well.
A former NFL rnerback, Wa Davis me out as gay 2012 after his profsnal football reer me to an end. Vlent anti-gay attacks the early 1980s and 1990s wh the male-domated world of skate led many to hi their sexualy.
Brian Anrson, a skater who rose to populary the 1990s, remembers regularly hearg gay slurs, which ma him thk at a young age that was dangero to talk about his sexualy. In 2016 Anrson beme the first high-profile profsnal skater to e out as gay, somethg he never thought he would do.
BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
Proceeds om sal of his Cave Homo ze, which explor Anrson’s journey as an openly gay man, are donated to the LGBTQ+ suici preventn nonprof The Trevor is the first issue of the ze Cave Homo, a llaboratn wh Anrson’s iends, signer Le Williams and photographer Christian Trippe.
Cave Homo beme a venue for Anrson’s art, sketch, and photography, highlightg Anrson’s personal terts and his newfound eedom as an openly gay StrberryCher Strberry g her first signature Kevil signed transgenr skater Cher Strberry’s first signature ck. “I am hopg that by beg an all-clive project, uld be a bigger ia than a gay skate pany—and that we n break down barriers together.
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THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
Profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson ma history on Tuday by beg the first openly gay athlete to pete his sport at the mastream level. I kd of nsir myself a skateboarr first and gay send.... I like that, '" Anrson a kid, the homophobic bullyg he wnsed at school enuraged him to keep his sexualy a secret.
"A part of me was so irrated and angry om holdg that so ma me more of an animal on my skateboard, " he g out, Anrson follows the footsteps of athlet Tim Von Werne and Jerrett Berry, two openly gay skateboarrs who have attempted to make a nt a sport fed by heterosexual, who never reached Anrson's level of succs, graced the ver of Big Brother 2002, a skateboardg publitn that fold two years later. “My name is Brian Anrson, I’m a profsnal skateboarr, and we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay, ” Mr.
Anrson, who liv Queens, beme skateboardg’s most proment pro star to e out as gay, jog the steady trickle of athlet om other sports who have done so over the last few years. Anrson said an terview Wednday all s untercultural ol, skateboardg has historilly been party to the same kds of homophobia found other male-domated stutns.