There have been 39 gay Olympic figure skaters. Here’s the list - Outsports

Contents:

• PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
• 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
• BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
• JAKE KUZYK OUT AS GAY, FIFTH SNOWBOARR A WEEK
• A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

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

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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE

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BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, 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.

” He told me years ago, “If anyone kicks you off their team for beg gay, I’ll put you on me tomorrow. You got 50 guys unr a tent at a skate petn, [I bet] at least three of them have got to be gay. ”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.

LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“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.

“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 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. “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.

JAKE KUZYK OUT AS GAY, FIFTH SNOWBOARR A WEEK

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

A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST

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.

THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST

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. "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).