'Queer Skateboardg': Photographer documents gay skater culture

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Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month.

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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE

Mr. Anrson, 40, be the most proment profsnal athlete to e out as gay a sport once nsired tged wh homophobia. * gay skateboarding *

”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.

A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST

Adam Rippon may be the first out figure skater to pete the Olympics, but he's not the only gay man to have land an axel on the world stage. * gay skateboarding *

"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. 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.

BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

She is openly gay and her fay supports her orientatn which is not always the se nservative untri like the Philipp.

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.

OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL

In 2016 Anrson beme the first high-profile profsnal skater to e out as gay, somethg he never thought he would do. Proceeds om sal of his Cave Homo ze, which explor Anrson’s journey as an openly gay man, are donated to the LGBTQ+ suici preventn nonprof The Trevor is the first issue of the ze Cave Homo, a llaboratn wh Anrson’s iends, signer Le Williams and photographer Christian Trippe. Cave Homo beme a venue for Anrson’s art, sketch, and photography, highlightg Anrson’s personal terts and his newfound eedom as an openly gay StrberryCher Strberry g her first signature Kevil signed transgenr skater Cher Strberry’s first signature ck.

“I am hopg that by beg an all-clive project, uld be a bigger ia than a gay skate pany—and that we n break down barriers together.

”Skate is still workg on s acceptance of gay and queer skaters, but Baker has hope for cln. She refers to high-profile skaters like Jay Adams, who was nvicted of felony asslt 1982 the fatal beatg of a gay man, and Jason Jsee, who apologized May after old terviews which he ma homophobic slurs rurfaced onle. And by tablishg a place where people will feel accepted and embraced for who they are, the PDX Queer Skate Crew is openg the doors to a sport that saw s first profsnal skater e out as gay ls than two years ago.

16 GAY AND BI OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS

Lghl Nil District, Fremont, CALghl the Castro, San Francis's gay Denver Lghl got to skate wh world champn longboarr Jeff VyaJeff Vya & Lghl - Wash Park Denver om 2030 or Bt on 's a short vio of my nversatn wh Sean, manager of The Triangle Denver, a gay bar wh a FIERCE mment to staabily. Proceeds om sal of his Cave Homo ze, which explor Anrson’s journey as an openly gay man, are donated to the LGBTQ+ suici preventn nonprof The Trevor Project.

MEET THE GAY MAN SKATEBOARDG ACROSS THE U.S. TO RAISE CLIMATE CRISIS AWARENS

“I am hopg that by beg an all-clive project, uld be a bigger ia than a gay skate pany—and that we n break down barriers together.

THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

Skate is still workg on s acceptance of gay and queer skaters, but Baker has hope for cln.

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16 Gay and Bi Olympic Figure Skaters .

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