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has great style.</p><p>[Man] Brian Anrson is the bt.</p><p>[Man] The big homeboy, B.A.</p><p>He recently me out wh this shoe.</p><p>(crowd cheerg)</p><p>[Man] Some kid put a photo of one</p><p>of my skateboards wh an Amerin flag</p><p>on Instagram, and he wrote,</p><p>And boom.</p><p>Skateboardg changed, jt like that.</p><p>(rhythmic mic)</p><p>(skateboard sound)</p><p>[Reporter] On September 27th,</p><p>one of skateboardg's most proment figur</p><p>mak headl after g out as gay.</p><p>Dpe beg seen as more alternative,</p><p>Anrson says, Skateboardg's history</p><p>like many other sports n be traced</p><p>wh homophobia.</p><p>Anrson rells hearg homophobic slurs</p><p>and cidg not to e out,</p><p>sayg quote,</p><p>People would have perceived differently</p><p>if I'd said 15 years ago.</p><p>(appliance whirrg)</p><p>(atic mic)</p><p>[Brian] Hey!</p><p>[Ldsey] How's go'?</p><p>[Brian] Good.</p><p>I saw you, what, mid-October?</p><p>I feel like so much has happened,</p><p>and 's only been, like, a month.</p><p>I'm cur about what I'm store for</p><p> other plac.</p><p>There aren't major ci that are acceptg.</p><p>I know there's gonna be some thgs.</p><p>A random skate park or whatever.</p><p>Like a lot of younger gay iends,</p><p>who, like, get to be, like,</p><p>super gay their twenti!</p><p>And like, you know?</p><p>Do all of that.</p><p>And I feel like you didn't really get</p><p>to do all of that.</p><p>Like, now you get to do a ltle more of that.</p><p>Like, y!</p><p>Yeah.</p><p>[Andrew] Hey hey, I'm home. Hey!</p><p>Hello hello!</p><p>[Ldsey] Hi!</p><p>Hey betiful.</p><p>Hi!</p><p>How are ya? Hi. Ahh.</p><p>So good to see you aga!</p><p>Good to see you too.</p><p>How are ya?</p><p>How was your day?</p><p>Wunrbar.</p><p>[Andrew] Cool. Hello hello.</p><p>I'm not a skater, you know?</p><p>I mean, I didn't know.</p><p>I didn't know who he was when I first met him.</p><p>You know, 'e I'm not a skater.</p><p>When people regnize him,</p><p>they're like Brian Anrson!</p><p>I love that.</p><p>I jt, I se.</p><p>I step off, you know, a lot of tim.</p><p>You know, jt let him have his moment.</p><p>[Ldsey] (lghs) Totally.</p><p>There is more of a scty obvly</p><p>after the whole g out and all the attentn</p><p>'e we'd been together for, relatively,</p><p>a short, some people would say,</p><p>short perd of time,</p><p>so I thk was buildg our relatnship</p><p>but then also havg this monumental thg</p><p> his profsnal and personal life.</p><p>[Ldsey] Mhm.</p><p>Yeah.</p><p>Growg up Connecticut on a ad-end street,</p><p>I jt wanted to be a band,</p><p>and that's all I wanted to do.</p><p>And then, skateboardg happened.</p><p>(rock mic)</p><p>I didn't set out to be a pro-skater.</p><p>It slowly beme my goal,</p><p>and then once I was close,</p><p>I was like I'm not gonna let this slip</p><p>out of my hands.</p><p>(rock mic)</p><p>(cheerg)</p><p>(snapshot sounds)</p><p>The type of skateboardg I did was big and burly</p><p>and flyg down stairs.</p><p>A lot of people only saw that part of me.</p><p>[Cameraman] Fuck yeah, bro.</p><p>[Brian] There were all the thgs around me</p><p> society that were tellg me,</p><p>do not tell anybody this stuff.</p><p>I was really lonely.</p><p>It was hard to pretend.</p><p>It felt good to get hurt,</p><p>rough myself up, bleed.</p><p>I thk I was so angry a lot of tim,</p><p>hearg the thgs.</p><p>I would clench my fists.</p><p>Jt be like,</p><p>I'm takg this out on my board.</p><p>(ambulance siren)</p><p>[Brian] When I was g out to my fay,</p><p>the person I was most worried about</p><p>was my olr brother Peter.</p><p>He had two kids and divorced</p><p>and jt had a tough life.</p><p>And I was like,</p><p>this du's gonna bug out.</p><p>It was a holiday.</p><p>That's the only time I would see him,</p><p>and he like took me to my parent's bedroom,</p><p>and he's like, Bri,</p><p>as life go by,</p><p>'s ls and ls about sex,</p><p>and more about love and pannship.</p><p>I jt want you to be happy. You're my brother.</p><p>Life's too short.</p><p>It felt like</p><p>the lightg the room changed almost.</p><p>A lot of my younger years flashed before me,</p><p>all the tim I had looked the mirror</p><p>and wonred what was gonna happen.</p><p>(skateboardg sound)</p><p>It is sry to put myself out there like that.</p><p>(somber mic) Seeg what kids</p><p>are gog through,</p><p>not knowg where to turn,</p><p>mtg suici.</p><p>That gave me a huge amount of mment</p><p>to do .</p><p>[Crowd] Whoa! Whoo! Damn.</p><p>[Brian] I love to talk to the kids.</p><p>Let 'em know you're not more than human.</p><p>Jt bee they see you on this page</p><p> this magaze.</p><p>Thkg about how my life uld have turned out</p><p>and what did.</p><p>I'm so thankful that I listened to myself,</p><p>pursued men,</p><p>and here I am.</p><p>(slow piano mic)</p></div></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" tabx="0" class="TabsPanel-dugBWX cPmIrj"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CredSectnWrapper-gxJTHG iUEiRd jShkQK kAMVvc creds"><p>Starrg<!-- -->: <!-- -->Brian Anrson</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fLDozG grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div data-ttid="CneVioWatchPageRightRail" class="CneVioWatchPageRightRail-EnLY dWEvUQ"><button data-ttid="CneVioWatchPageButton" class="CneVioWatchPageButton-isQkXs gvpKxN">Hi</button><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CneVioWatchPageRightRailHeadg-kpouzA iUEiRd jElyjS eQghcW right-rail__headg">Up 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Mr. Anrson, 40, be the most proment profsnal athlete to e out as gay a sport once nsired tged wh homophobia.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. ”Skate is still workg on s acceptance of gay and queer skaters, but Baker has hope for cln.

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(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. Anrson rells hearg homophobic slursand cidg not to e out, sayg quote, People would have perceived differentlyif I'd said 15 years ago.

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Three Olympic figure skaters have e out for Pri Month, cludg two gay men and a queer woman. 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.

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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.

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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.

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“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. 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.

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