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Contents:
- A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
- 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
- TIM OKASAKI: WORLD’S FIRST GAY SKATEBOARR
A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
Gay people skate.
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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
”Self-portra of photographer Ross Lannberger Oak Ridge, LannbergerLannberger adms that as a gay kid skateboardg at his lol skate park a suburban Tennsee, he never felt all that weled by other skateboarrs.
TIM OKASAKI: WORLD’S FIRST GAY SKATEBOARR
“Once I was a ltle b olr, and knowg I was gay, and people throwg around slurs all the time, jt beg around that, I had no tert beg iends wh the people. It wasn’t until profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson me out as gay 2016, that Lannberger began to realize there uld be a space for him to be openly gay while also beg embraced wh a sometim homophobic skateboardg culture.