Pro skateboarr Brian Anrson out as gay to tell kids ‘ gets better’ - Outsports

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• BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
• BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
• BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
• BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS
• BRIAN ANRSON G OUT AS GAY DON’T LET SKATEBOARDG OFF THE HOOK
• LEGENDARY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY – WATCH
• LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
• PRO SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON OUT AS GAY TO TELL KIDS ‘ GETS BETTER’
• IS RICHARD ANRSON GAY?
• PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE

BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

“My name is Brian Anrson, I’m a profsnal skateboarr, and we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay, ” Mr.

Anrson, who liv Queens, beme skateboardg’s most proment pro star to e out as gay, jog the steady trickle of athlet om other sports who have done so over the last few years.

LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Anrson said an terview Wednday all s untercultural ol, skateboardg has historilly been party to the same kds of homophobia found other male-domated stutns. Until fairly recently, many skate parks had a certa locker-room feel, wh gay slurs and sensive jok.

There is even a 1980s-era trick lled the Gay Twist, a homophobic reference to beg “the gay way” of performg a particular kd of recently, skateboardg culture has shifted.

There have been skateboard graphics celebratg gay marriage and magaze articl qutng why so few skaters are out.

BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS

“All the kids who were stg there at home thkg, like, ‘Wa, my favore skater is gay? Friends and dtry sirs have been aware for more than a , and mors that he may be gay have been a equent topic of discsn skateboard rners of the March, durg a skate ntt Tampa, Fla., Gvanni Reda, a iend and director, asked Mr. “At first he was a ltle apprehensive, and I was like, ‘Du, there is probably a kid here right now who is gay, ” Mr.

” Rpect and sponsorships followed, but he kept his sexualy a Anrson told Vice that hearg gay slurs all the time ma him thk at a young age that was “really dangero” to talk about his gay may be easier today, he add the terview, but ’s still not easy. He kept his sexualy hidn for fear would kill his burgeong reer, and the vio suggts that skateboardg wasn’t ready for a gay skater when Mr.

BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS

There was also the time he was at the Eagle, a gay bar Portland, Ore., when a fellow skateboarr regnized him.

BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS

29, 2016: Bee of an edg error, an earlier versn of this article misstated the source of a statement by Brian Anrson that hearg gay slurs ma him believe at a young age that was “really dangero” to talk about his sexualy.

He is the most proment profsnal skateboarr to e out as gay, not the we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn ST, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Skater’s Most Forceful Move Yet. Profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson publicly me out as gay.

In a mi-documentary ma wh Vice Sports that buted on Tuday, the 40-year-old dtry legend said, “my name is Brian Anrson, I’m a profsnal skateboarr, and we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay. “I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send, ” he said.

BRIAN ANRSON IS THE OPENLY GAY PRO SKATER BREAKG DTRY BARRIERS

In September of 2016, VICE Sports released a short documentary, Brian Anrson on Beg a Gay Profsnal Skateboarr, chroniclg the g out story of pro skateboarr Brian Anrson.

He was one of the most regnized pros the dtry -- makg his g out all the more important for LGBTQ visibily, pecially the profsnal sports talkg to Rollg Stone about his experience, Anrson discsed the apprehensn he had around g out, pecially due to the rather homophobic environments he often found himself .

"Nowadays there are televisn shows about gays and transgenr people.

BRIAN ANRSON G OUT AS GAY DON’T LET SKATEBOARDG OFF THE HOOK

Startg wh a cryptic Instagram msage over the summer, Anrson teased somethg dubbed Cave Homo. "Cave Homo was jt somethg Brian had wrten out on a notebook, " Williams told VICE Creators. From beg named Skater of the Year (1999) by Thrasher magaze to g out 2016 and beg the first out gay pro skateboarr the sport, Brian Anrson is a symbol of perseverance.

You have spoken openly about beg the first out gay skater the skate scene. Aga for me, n be a remr of the gay/queer flag lors and will spire people to rearch the history of the rabow flag.

LEGENDARY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY – WATCH

At GAY TIMES, we have phed nversatns wh the LGBTQ+ skate scene across our platform.

At GAY TIMES, we’ve been supportg out and closeted LGBTQ+ athlet at the Wter and Summer Olympics.

A history of homophobia — Five years ago, Huck reported on a culture of silence that enuraged gay skaters to rema the closet. Patrick Welch reviss an unanswered qutn: is skateboardg riddled wh homophobia?

LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY

The Instagram photo he posted after that documentary dropped, of him and his boyiend chillg on the ferry to New York’s gay paradise Fire island, was a genue first for skatg: an NBD worthy of the ver of Thrasher. Well done, BA, everyone has been que rightly, too – I n’t say enough: that guy serv all the praise the world for beg the first out gay pro skater. But – and here’s the b – om where I’m standg, as a gay du who has been skatg for 20 years, I’m not sure ngratulatns are orr for skateboardg as a years ago, I wrote a piece for Huck about Tim Von Werne, who was an am for Birdhoe the late ’90s and was gay and out to all his team mat, but told that he uldn’t talk about his sexualy an terview wh Skateboarr magaze.

And don’t we now have gay marriage, gay mar, even gay people gby – fuckg gby! – and yet, until last week, we had no out gay pros the supposedly ol, creative world of skatg. It’s that, mixed wh a general cloud of homophobia om the bottom to top, nng the gamut om macho bullsh and gay name-llg at spots, right up to skatg’s biggt nam, Jay Adams, Josh Swll and Danny Way, and their alleged volvement different homophobic murrs, which the skateboardg muny happily gloss over (Swll and Adams were nvicted, but Way was not)’s pse for a moment to digt the fact that while some guys are worried about losg their reers for beg gay, others reta their legendary stat – and their sponsors – after beg volved the murr of gay 15 years ago, I was talkg wh the edor of a big skate magaze about why skatg didn’t seem able to evolve on this issue.

PRO SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON OUT AS GAY TO TELL KIDS ‘ GETS BETTER’

A iend om Stland, Joe, who is gay and has been skatg for 20 years had siarly sthg thgs to say about some of what he referred to as the ‘LA bro-typ’ Anrson’s vio last week: “Should the skateboardg dtry as a whole give self a hearty pat on the back for this sort of vague acceptance, I will vom.

IS RICHARD ANRSON GAY?

As a iend, Alex, om Portland says, “I thk many teenage male skaters are still pretty homophobic. But most male teenagers are [homophobic], regardls of whether they skate or didn’t know how many skaters are dog that sh to their 20s and 30s though.

Sendly, matters to those who look up to you bee when you grow up gay, every gay role mol is a lifeboat, whose existence you clg to the hope that, as they’re dog OK, maybe one day you’ll be OK too. Overnight, he probably changed a lot of people’s’ perceptn of gay people. ” And while, I agree ’s ol that he’s smashg some stereotyp, would his homosexualy be as well received if he were a ls hh, ls burly du?

One guy Seattle, Tobias – shop-sponsored, mean nollie big flip; one of those guys – told me he felt that his sexualy was at odds wh his liftyle as a skater, and that as Brian Anrson’s homosexualy was such an open secret, he had bee somethg of ‘a role mol for beg closeted’ week I asked Tobias what he thought about the whole thg now.

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

The next day, another gay skater I nnected wh through that article, David, Paris, posted on Facebook: “Thanks BA. Profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson has e out as gay.

Anrson says he knew he was gay om about the age of three or four, sayg somethg about men's facial hair triggered him om a young age. Commentg on the homophobia he enuntered growg up, Anrson says, “Hearg ‘faggot' all time time, ma me feel at a really young age that was dangero to talk about .