Young Irish Surfer To Be First Openly Gay Surfer On World Tour - Gay Natn

Contents:

• THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG
• THIS GAY PRO SURFER ME OUT TO HIS "MAT" WHEN A GROCERY CLERK H ON HIM
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• COMG OUT: TO BE A GAY SURFER
• GAY SURFERS GET "OUT IN THE LE-UP"
• THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
• YOUNG IRISH SURFER TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SURFER ON WORLD TOUR

THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG

Earlier this year, I spoke wh Chance Wheeler, another gay former llege athlete, who says OnlyFans allows him to feel nfint his body. And as the membership grew – to clu many who thought they were only gay surfer the world – so did the stori.

Surfers, cludg many profsnal on, were wrg to Castets to expla how they had felt pelled to keep their sexualy secret, faced homophobia the sport or stggled the surf dtry as a rult of g year Thomas, along wh Atralian former state champn surfer David Wakefield – who chose not to pursue a surfg reer out of a fear of beg “found out” as gay – cid to go on a trip around the world to meet some of them. Their journey – ptured award-wng documentary Out the Le-up, which premier the UK this week – sheds a light on the experienc of gay surfers around the world as seeks to unrstand why the sport ntu to stggle to be open about the the stori heard are that of former petive surfer Sie Hernanz, whose fellow surfers and roommat moved out after fdg out she was gay. It also touch on the tragic se of Ben Roper, a young gay surfer om one of Sydney’s famo surf gangs, the Bra Boys, who killed himself last year.

“I have seen so many talented female surfers e and go bee they didn’t have the support om the surfg dtry due to the fact that they were eher gay, spected of beg gay, not feme enough or they simply did not f the image that brands believe sells product, ” she says. “To e out as gay the surfg dtry is to step out of the bounds of what is nsired ‘marketable’, so I suffered the nsequenc of that, ” she actn shot om Out the Le-up.

THIS GAY PRO SURFER ME OUT TO HIS "MAT" WHEN A GROCERY CLERK H ON HIM

Photograph: PRFor Ian Thomson, who directed the documentary and is himself gay and a surfer, is not jt the profsnal aspect of surfg that n feel very hostile to a gay person.

And you get this msage that if any way I show my te self – my homosexualy – I’m jt gonna get massacred out here.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

”The issue of homosexualy and surfg draws a lot of wir problems the sport has wh diversy general – somethg that seems at odds wh the easy-gog, unterculture liftyle many feel reprents. There is still yet to be an openly gay male pro surfer at the ele level who is currently on tour – spe the fact that more tradnal sports, such as football, gby and boxg, have had succsful athlet e out.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

And another e is jt that there have never really been any gay surfers out there, so I would jt ll that ignorance and a lack of visibily. ”The aim of the film – which has been shortlisted to be ed as part of the tn programme Atralian high schools – is not simply to challenge homophobia surfg, but also to help refe and mornise the image of homosexualy general.

“The media is still picturg gay people as livg the cy, wearg the same cloth, gog to parti …” says Castets, who feels that the perceptn of gay culture – a siar way to surfg – hasn’t evolved much sce the 80s. “I thought if we were able to make this film, we would be able to change that stereotype and show a new image of what is to be gay 2014. I thought that if people found out that I was gay that they would no longer want to be associated wh me and would thk of me as jt another stereotype.

COMG OUT: TO BE A GAY SURFER

All the lols at home know that I'm gay, and they're not aaid to give me some harmls playful stick about the water. As a mate of me that I do a b of travelg wh for surf put , "If someone stops likg you for beg gay, then what kd of msag do that breath about that person?

GAY SURFERS GET "OUT IN THE LE-UP"

One of my mat has known that I am gay sce school, and my other mate I've gone to great lengths to hi to him the fact that I'm gay.

THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE

That night we got on the beer and I said enough is enough and turned to mate and said to him "man, I'm sorry, I'm gay. The bt part has been people's reactns to fdg out I'm gay and beg able to break a stereotype of gay people, pecially when surfg.

When I me , I was chattg wh one of the pros and he was lghg and said he had seen the film that I am talkg about beg gay.

The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.

YOUNG IRISH SURFER TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SURFER ON WORLD TOUR

Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant  Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938). The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy.