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• THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG
• THIS GAY PRO SURFER ME OUT TO HIS "MAT" WHEN A GROCERY CLERK H ON HIM
• COMG OUT: TO BE A GAY SURFER
• THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG

THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG

And most recently he created a book splicg up found photographs om old surf magaz and siarly beachy imag om gay publitns, creatg a kd of alternative, queer visual surf history. In the SURFER article, Milner opened up about his upbrgg, feelg unable to e out to his surf iends, and why he thought was important to challenge homophobia and toxic masculy surfg.

From “Brokeback Mounta” jok to ments like “Queer surfers are kooks” to claims of “the media shovg gay culture down [our] throat”, was a b of a dumpster fire.

’” As a queer artist the surf world, Milner may be a posn of particular exposure to surf culture’s homophobia.

THIS GAY PRO SURFER ME OUT TO HIS "MAT" WHEN A GROCERY CLERK H ON HIM

Surf culture reflects our mographics to an extent, and most surfers—certaly those wh the most fluence the culture—likely live homogeno, affluent, socially-nservative astal enclav. While today you aren’t as likely to hear the once-nstant homophobic slurs beachsi parkg lots, the problem persists different forms.

COMG OUT: TO BE A GAY SURFER

She was gay—a fact that she uldn’t tell her fay, who were both eply relig and eply immersed a homophobic surfg culture. ”“I read this SURFER terview wh Keala Kennelly and was very vague—she was only kd of htg at beg gay—but was enough for me to be like, 'OK, this is alright. In the article, wrer Matt Gee sentially suggted that Horan was gay (he wasn’t).

THIS GAY SURFER STARTED AN ONLYFANS PAGE TO FEEL SEXY, AND ’S WORKG

“The magaz, yeah, bee they thought I was gay, a lot of them pulled the plug on me, ” Horan told Matt Warshaw a follow-up piece for SURFER 2 years later. In 2002, Matt Gee (yep, aga) penned another profile for SURFER suggtg that a pro was gay (they were).

“There’s a history of misogyny, and there was a lot of anti-gay slang and that sort of thg. ” Homophobia was graed the slang, much like was surfg’s.

Skateboardg progenor Jay Adams was part of a group that stomped a gay man to ath Hollywood 1982, wh Adams servg a 6-month sentence for felony asslt.

In 1993, pro skater Josh Swll beat a gay man named Keh Ogn to ath after Ogn got a fight wh Danny Way, another famed pro. In a short documentary by Vice Sports, after an openg montage of skate clips and dtry legends pumpg him up as the embodiment masculy skateboardg (one pro lls him “the most manlit figure I’ve ever seen”), pro skater Brian Anrson looks directly to mera and says “we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay. Bee the 6-foot tall, ep-voiced, heavily-tattooed Anrson was also a stark ntrast om the gay stereotyp many skaters held their mds, perhaps no other pro uld have e out wh greater impact.

Earlier this year, the late skate in Jeff Grosso—who admted to g homophobic language equently his younger years—created a powerful episo of his Vans “Loveletters” seri elevatg the stori of queer skaters. Lim Anrson, Uny, Skateism, Grosso and the rt didn’t end homophobia and transphobia skateboardg, of urse.

Historilly, the lack of queer reprentatn ele petn, magaz, surf films and surf brand marketg has allowed homophobia to go unchallenged, rultg a surf space that don’t look particularly welg for queer youth. “And I read this SURFER terview wh Keala Kennelly and was very vague—she was only kd of htg at beg gay—but was enough for me to be like, ‘OK, this is alright.

“Surfg is fely a totally different animal, ” says gay Long Beach surfer and former pro skater Amy Caron. Thomas Castets, the filmmaker behd “Out the Le-Up”, started workg toward buildg a nnected LGBTQ+ surf muny a ago when he found The fledglg onle muny was able to anize lol surf meet-ups, plan trips abroad and march as a group wh Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para.

“I thought would be nice if I uld fd at least one other gay surfer out there, ” he says. And as the membership grew – to clu many who thought they were only gay surfer the world – so did the stori.