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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
Gay people skate. When asked about her orientatn terviews sometim she jt bsh the qutn of wh “I’m gay.
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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.