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- BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
- LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
- LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
- FALLY! | BRIAN ANRSON ON BEG A GAY PRO SKATEBOARR
- BRIAN ANRSON ON BEG A GAY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR
- BRIAN ANRSON ON BEG A GAY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR
- LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
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“My name is Brian Anrson, I’m a profsnal skateboarr, and we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay, ” Mr.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT AS GAY
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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.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
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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.
PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR BRIAN ANRSON IS GAY, PROUD, AND HAS A NEW ZE
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“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.
” 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.
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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.
BRIAN ANRSON ON BEG A GAY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR
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A Brief Look at Skateboardg's Gay PastDo Brian Anrson's announcement mean we're gog to see a new wheel pany based on Tom of Fland graphics? "I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send". Durg that time, as he was beg an in to skateboarrs around the globe, he was hidg the fact that he was gay so that he wouldn’t potentially sabotage his pro skateboardg reer.
In a new “Vice Sports” documentary wh Gvanni Reda, Anrson discs beg gay publicly for the first time. “The whole dtry knew, but people loved Brian so much, really didn’t get out, ” Templeton says, explag that he would have thought was “awome” and tried to promote Anrson as the first high-profile gay skater (Jarrett Berry and Tim Von Werne me out but were nsired more margal to the sport). “I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send, ” he says.
BRIAN ANRSON ON BEG A GAY PROFSNAL SKATEBOARR
In September of 2016, VICE Sports released a short documentary, Brian Anrson on Beg a Gay Profsnal Skateboarr, chroniclg the g out story of pro skateboarr Brian Anrson. He was one of the most regnized pros the dtry -- makg his g out all the more important for LGBTQ visibily, pecially the profsnal sports talkg to Rollg Stone about his experience, Anrson discsed the apprehensn he had around g out, pecially due to the rather homophobic environments he often found himself . "Nowadays there are televisn shows about gays and transgenr people.
Startg wh a cryptic Instagram msage over the summer, Anrson teased somethg dubbed Cave Homo. "Cave Homo was jt somethg Brian had wrten out on a notebook, " Williams told VICE Creators. Profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson publicly me out as gay.
LEGENDARY PRO SKATER BRIAN ANRSON COM OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
In a mi-documentary ma wh Vice Sports that buted on Tuday, the 40-year-old dtry legend said, “my name is Brian Anrson, I’m a profsnal skateboarr, and we are here to talk about the fact that I am gay. “I nsir myself a skateboarr first, gay send, ” he said.
Last fall he starred Vice Sports’s vio, which the 6-foot-3 burly boarr me out as gay and set that world ablaze.