Legendary pro skater Brian Anrson publicly discs beg gay and his fear and shame over the years new sports documentary for Vice.
Contents:
- 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
- PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
- LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
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”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. “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.
"Skateboarr Ryan Schertz, LannbergerSce 2017, Lannberger has been travelg to different ci and documentg the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer skateboarrs for his photo project tled “Queer Skateboardg.
PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
Gay people skate. When asked about her orientatn terviews sometim she jt bsh the qutn of wh “I’m gay.
A said thg to note is that he hid his sexualy for many years bee he felt would hurt his reer to be openly gay the “macho” world of skateboardg. She is openly gay and her fay supports her orientatn which is not always the se nservative untri like the Philipp. Last fall he starred Vice Sports’s vio, which the 6-foot-3 burly boarr me out as gay and set that world ablaze.
Anrson was by far the most proment, and his openns has created new dialogu a sport where homosexualy was mostly unheard of, and often Anrson has been out to his fay sce he was 25, his public revelatn—after which he says his sponsors, which clu Nike, as well as his lleagu embraced him—has meant that his voice has taken on new importance both profsnal sports and the liftyle that is skateboardg. To that end, on Saturday, June 24, he will publish Cave Homo, an entirely new kd of skate ze. ” He told me years ago, “If anyone kicks you off their team for beg gay, I’ll put you on me tomorrow.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
You got 50 guys unr a tent at a skate petn, [I bet] at least three of them have got to be gay. "I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send".
Durg that time, as he was beg an in to skateboarrs around the globe, he was hidg the fact that he was gay so that he wouldn’t potentially sabotage his pro skateboardg reer. In a new “Vice Sports” documentary wh Gvanni Reda, Anrson discs beg gay publicly for the first time.
“The whole dtry knew, but people loved Brian so much, really didn’t get out, ” Templeton says, explag that he would have thought was “awome” and tried to promote Anrson as the first high-profile gay skater (Jarrett Berry and Tim Von Werne me out but were nsired more margal to the sport). “I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send, ” he says. But he kept his sexualy a private matter until 2014, when the Uned Stat sent a legatn to Rsia ma up of high-profile gay athlet.