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Contents:
- GAY SKATEBOARDS & OUTDOOR GEAR
- 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
- BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
GAY SKATEBOARDS & OUTDOOR GEAR
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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
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BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
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THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
After years of qutns of whether he and Babilonia would ever date, Gardner revealed to Scene magaze 2006 that he was gay. While qutns about the flamboyant skater followed him through his reer -- two Canadian broadsters ught flak and spired a Pri Hoe prott after makg homophobic ments about Weir at the 2010 Olympics -- he did not e out until 2011, when he revealed he was gay his memoir, Wele to My World.
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