Legendary Pro Skater Brian Anrson Com Out as Gay – Rollg Stone

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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE

Legendary pro skater Brian Anrson publicly discs beg gay and his fear and shame over the years new sports documentary for Vice. * gay skateboarder *

”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. Gay people skate.

PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE

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.

LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY

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.

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