Which pro skaters are gay

It takes so many baby steps. Steve Olson, legend of the West Coast seventies skate scene, party animal and father of Girl Skateboards golden boy Alex Olson , is not one to sugarcoat things. Might they be more open-minded than we think? For Andrew Reynolds, ignorance has nothing to do with age.

He recalls how, as a teenager coming down from Lakeland, Florida, he was pretty nonplussed by the whole issue. I talk to Dr Nigel Jarvis , a senior lecturer at Brighton University who has explored masculinity issues in grassroots-level sports in the UK and Canada.

A lot of people making decisions could be basing them on a gut instinct that could be quite outdated. Do they have evidence to back that up? In the shift from being a bunch of reprobates screeching around Santa Monica to becoming a multimillion-dollar industry backed by some of the biggest brands in the world, has skating lost some of its maverick spirit?

Brooke agrees that there are more open-minded pockets within the world of skate. But is this all really about money? Possibly not. I ask whether he thinks there is genuine deep-seated homophobia within the ranks of pro skating? Brown, 26, is a U.

He lives in Los Angeles is training hard for the Olympics. He came out on Twitter and Instagram on Friday with the same message. No experience or personality is the same, simply people finding their identity, their voice and owning their truths and their own unique ways. I realize that so many confront a different reality. I believe that love will always win and every story will unfold differently for each individual.

Mine unfolds a bit now. Skip to main content. Blog Home About Archive. By Jane Rogers , August 21, Anderson would go on to skate for Girl Skateboards and found his own company, 3D Skateboards, in Cher Strauberry Cher Strauberry using her first signature skateboard.

Strauberry broke her first signature skateboard while doing a backside heelflip down six big steps. Unity Skateboards This Unity Skateboarding deck is a wood maple laminate construction with a red deck surface.

The bottom of the deck has a white ground with an original drawing from Unity Skateboarding founder Jeff Cheung. Leo Baker affixed a photograph of their idol, Lady Gaga, to the top surface of her board. The bottom includes sponsor stickers—and depicts the use and abuse a skateboard used by a professional skateboarder experiences. Related Blog Posts. Tony Hawk skates into history. Innovation and inventiveness have been central to skateboarding since the earliest days of the sport.

Will the Bones Brigade finally, you know, gay off? We have an anonymous army of unpaid, unsupported kids who are always better, always improving, and making movies that are weird and innovative and sometimes just astoundingly good theater. A look at the shoe that flooded malls, skateparks, teenage girls' ankles everywhere. Skate parts are now being dwarfed by ultra-shareable moments and GIFs.

We wrote a semi-serious review of the Original Skateboard Freak's newest indie film. I spent a day torturing myself watching nothing but McClung brothers footage to find out. Was there skateboarding before a bunch of stoned surfers invented it in the 50s? September 29, pm. Jenkem Magazine. Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube. More: essays gay style.