Legendary pro skater Brian Anrson publicly discs beg gay and his fear and shame over the years new sports documentary for Vice.
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
Mr. Anrson, 40, be the most proment profsnal athlete to e out as gay a sport once nsired tged wh homophobia. * gay professional skateboarder *
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.
'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
Skateboardg legend Brian Anrson publicly me out as gay wh a mi documentary about his experienc petive skateboardg. * gay professional skateboarder *
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BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
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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.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Jake Kuzyk joed four other snowboarrs g out as gay on a snowboardg webse. * gay professional skateboarder *
” 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.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS 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. “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.
JAKE KUZYK OUT AS GAY, FIFTH SNOWBOARR A WEEK
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.
A BRIEF LOOK AT SKATEBOARDG'S GAY PAST
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.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
“All the kids who were stg there at home thkg, like, ‘Wa, my favore skater is gay?