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data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“I’ve heard stori where people tell me, ‘My niece me out bee she saw your story,’ ” says pro <a href=">skateboarr</a> Brian Anrson. “There’s been a bunch of those msag.” Anrson is preparg for Go Skateboardg Day, an annual holiday where fans of the sport are enuraged to go out and skate, which fell on June 21 this year, and he’s talkg to me om his kchen Jackson Heights, Queens, drkg green tea while his hband snor bed nearby. “So, good for him,” says Anrson. Last fall he starred <a href=">Vice Sports</a>’s vio, which the 6-foot-3 burly boarr me out as gay and set that world ablaze. While not the first profsnal skateboarr to e out, Mr. Anrson was by far the most proment, and his openns has created new dialogu a sport where homosexualy was mostly unheard of, and often rid.</p><p>While 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 <em>Cave Homo</em>, an entirely new kd of skate ze. Photographed by Christian Trippe and signed by Le Williams, the photo-heavy book serv as somewhat of a monograph for Anrson’s liftyle, as well as a te parture for any skateboard publitn, wh Anrson picted everythg om leather harns (his own) to a bs-lookg su. “The su, I believe ’s a Calv Kle, wh a Thomas Pk tie,” he says. “And then I wrote as a ptn, ‘Freedom of exprsn is betiful thg. Let no one take that om .’ ”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Here, Anrson reveals his reasons for makg a ze, the upsi to skateboarrs’ ignorance, and why Dennis Rodman is important for skateboardg.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p><strong>Why make a ze of all thgs, and why now?</strong>My iend Le Williams, who is now too big to skateboard—he’s a big old bear—we beme iends a ltle over a year ago. He said, “Do you md that I make a ltle ze of your tattoo?” I thought that would be so chey, but he’s my buddy. I thought we’d make at Kkos, 8.5 x 11 and stapled together. When I realized Christian Trippe was such a good photographer, I cid to brg some stuff. I’m to leather; I brought my harns. I have nipple rgs. There’s no sexual activy; ’s jt provotive. The photos turned out so well, I thought, Let’s put some money to this. It’s almost like a ltle ffee table book.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="0tscrb"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="tnpni"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>Lerature—om <em>Thrasher</em> on up; there are a ln mags—has always been a big part of skateboard culture. What are you hopg to add to that dynamic?</strong>I didn’t hope to add anythg. It’s not a showy thg, bee I really am a darn humble guy; I get that om my father. I thought might spire others to stay motivated and make art. There’s a lot of crazy stuff gog on the world and nobody n take our art away om .</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="eaksjr"></div></div><p>Also, what the ntent shows. For example, there’s a picture of me a su, and then there’s pictur of me wh my shirt off the harns. You never know what’s unr someone’s outf. It creat a different level of unrstandg and rpect for people’s different styl and unique quali.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p><strong>For both a sport and liftyle that is nomally rooted irreverence and an exprsn of dividualy, I’ve always been surprised at how nformist skateboardg’s participants behave: You see so much siar drs, speech, mic.</strong>There are a lot of people who have the same style and exprsn and words and mic choic, but there are other characters. Beg om California, there’s a lot of different kd of skaters: There are some that are way more ser, skatg perfectly—I don’t want to ll robotic—then there are other skaters who are super loose, and sweaty, and they don’t re if their sho are dirty. It’s like mic, or any other art form.</p><p><strong>After you me out, somethg that really surprised me was how your fellow skateboarrs—and they were tryg to be supportive—touted your manls, and how “badass” you are, as if someone’s sexual inty is somehow related to those thgs. It’s such an antiquated notn.</strong>Recently, I went to a benef for the <a href=">Trevor Project</a>, bee my sister killed herself when I was fourth gra. Now I’m realizg that I slipped unr the radar pretty darned easily bee I’m tall and stuff. I hate to say “straight passg,” bee ’s a weird way to word , but yeah, lookg back at my childhood, man, I never got fucked wh. Can you image growg up the middle of the untry and beg effemate? That mt be sanely tough. Gog back to the manls and what people said, I thk ’s ol bee ’s also makg people thk about everyone else and their stggle. Somethg that’s ol about the g out is creatg awarens of how the kids feel. We’re all humans. 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How about your sponsors?</strong>I’ve been wh Nike for over 10 years; they were totally elated and exced, and I don’t thk for their personal ga. They said, “We have your back 100 percent.” It’s funny that I ri for a pany lled <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Antihero</a>. The founr, Julien Stranger, said, “I don’t give a sh. You’re one of my favore skateboarrs.” He told me years ago, “If anyone kicks you off their team for beg gay, I’ll put you on me tomorrow. Bee fuck them.” They were all supportive. I already get a uple thgs on Instagram like, “This is lame,” and then all my fans start World War III. I don’t do anythg, but if you e at me onle, all the people are gog to break you off.</p><p>Sibar: I have to prep myself for beg on tour middle Ameri, and some person sayg, “There’s that faggot,” and throwg a beer bottle at me. That hasn’t happened, but might.</p><p><strong>Whout throwg anyone unr the b, would you say that there are pro skateboarrs the closet? And if so why do you thk they feel the need to stay there?</strong>I’m sure there are. You got 50 guys unr a tent at a skate petn, [I bet] at least three of them have got to be gay. It’s not easy to e out. My hband me out when he was 19, which was really ballsy. There’s the masculy thg, but people are worried will give their grandmother a heart attack. They’re sred to be disowned. And that sucks. 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THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

In 2016, Brian Anrson publicly revealed that he’s gay, beg the most tablished athlete his sport to do so. * gay rock skateboard *

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.

BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

Three figure skaters, Amerin Jason Brown and Canadians Pl Poirier and Kalyn Weaver, me out as gay and queer for Pri Month. * gay rock skateboard *

She is openly gay and her fay supports her orientatn which is not always the se nservative untri like the Philipp. Vlent anti-gay attacks the early 1980s and 1990s wh the male-domated world of skate led many to hi their sexualy.

Brian Anrson, a skater who rose to populary the 1990s, remembers regularly hearg gay slurs, which ma him thk at a young age that was dangero to talk about his sexualy.

JAKE KUZYK OUT AS GAY, FIFTH SNOWBOARR A WEEK

Mr. Anrson, 40, be the most proment profsnal athlete to e out as gay a sport once nsired tged wh homophobia. * gay rock skateboard *

In 2016 Anrson beme the first high-profile profsnal skater to e out as gay, somethg he never thought he would do.

Proceeds om sal of his Cave Homo ze, which explor Anrson’s journey as an openly gay man, are donated to the LGBTQ+ suici preventn nonprof The Trevor is the first issue of the ze Cave Homo, a llaboratn wh Anrson’s iends, signer Le Williams and photographer Christian Trippe. Cave Homo beme a venue for Anrson’s art, sketch, and photography, highlightg Anrson’s personal terts and his newfound eedom as an openly gay StrberryCher Strberry g her first signature Kevil signed transgenr skater Cher Strberry’s first signature ck. “I am hopg that by beg an all-clive project, uld be a bigger ia than a gay skate pany—and that we n break down barriers together.

'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE

Jake Kuzyk joed four other snowboarrs g out as gay on a snowboardg webse. * gay rock skateboard *

”Skate is still workg on s acceptance of gay and queer skaters, but Baker has hope for cln. Lghl Nil District, Fremont, CALghl the Castro, San Francis's gay Denver Lghl got to skate wh world champn longboarr Jeff VyaJeff Vya & Lghl - Wash Park Denver om 2030 or Bt on 's a short vio of my nversatn wh Sean, manager of The Triangle Denver, a gay bar wh a FIERCE mment to staabily. (rhythmic mic)(skateboard sound)[Reporter] On September 27th, one of skateboardg's most proment figurmak headl after g out as gay.

Dpe beg seen as more alternative, Anrson says, Skateboardg's historylike many other sports n be tracedwh homophobia.

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Anrson rells hearg homophobic slursand cidg not to e out, sayg quote, People would have perceived differentlyif I'd said 15 years ago. A random skate park or a lot of younger gay iends, who, like, get to be, like, super gay their twenti! Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman.

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

The three athlet are: Amerin sgl figure skater Jason Brown, who is gay; Canadian ice dancer Pl Poirier, who is gay, and Canadian ice dancer Kalyn Weaver, who is queer. I’m gay, and that’s a story still beg wrten... “[Beg a gay athlete] hasn’t been somethg that I’ve really talked about very much, pecially a public settg, ” Poirier said.

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

OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL

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. 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.

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

” 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. 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. 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 snowboarr and skateboarr Jake Kuzyk me out as gay on Tuday, the fifth LGBTQ snowboarr to do so a seri of terviews on Torment magaze’s webse. I’m very proud to be gay!

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