‘Arguably the gayt skate vio’ giv sport new dimensn | Mar. 23-29, 2022 | Real Change

Contents:

• ‘ARGUABLY THE GAYT SKATE VIO’ GIV SPORT NEW DIMENSN
• THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
• BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• 'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE
• SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG
• THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
• OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL

‘ARGUABLY THE GAYT SKATE VIO’ GIV SPORT NEW DIMENSN

” Introduced as “arguably the gayt skate vio” by There team rir and Seattle-based viographer Leo Bañuelos, reprents a tone for queer skate culture worldwi. While some proment male pro skaters had e out of the closet by the late 2010s, skateboardg remaed a eply homophobic, misogynist and racist subculture. 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.

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THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN

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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.

BRIAN ANRSON, SKATEBOARDG STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

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.

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'QUEER SKATEBOARDG': PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS GAY SKATER CULTURE

“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.

SEVEN FABULO “OUT” GAY MEN OF FIGURE SKATG

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

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.

OAKS PARK GAY SKATE IS ON A ROLL

”Self-portra of photographer Ross Lannberger Oak Ridge, LannbergerLannberger adms that as a gay kid skateboardg at his lol skate park a suburban Tennsee, he never felt all that weled by other skateboarrs. “Once I was a ltle b olr, and knowg I was gay, and people throwg around slurs all the time, jt beg around that, I had no tert beg iends wh the people.