Tue, 2016-09-27
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Brian Anderson just made skateboarding history! The athlete,
who won Thrasher’s Skater of the Year award and the World Cup of
Skateboarding title in 1999, sat down with VICE Sports to talk about his experience as a gay skater in the hyper-masculine industry.
“I never thought I would sit here and talk about being gay on camera, but I wanted to. I think about how I felt when I was younger, totally scared—a lot of these kids don’t have hope...To hear what I went through and how everything got better for me and how I felt a lot happier and felt more free and didn’t have all this shame buried inside my body…to convey that message was really important to me.”
Watch Anderson's story below:
Read more articles from OUT, here.
“I never thought I would sit here and talk about being gay on camera, but I wanted to. I think about how I felt when I was younger, totally scared—a lot of these kids don’t have hope...To hear what I went through and how everything got better for me and how I felt a lot happier and felt more free and didn’t have all this shame buried inside my body…to convey that message was really important to me.”
Watch Anderson's story below:
Published on Sep 27, 2016
The
skateboarding community worships Brian Anderson as a god,
but for many
years kept his sexuality a secret from nearly everyone in his life.
Our
guy Reda sat down with Brian and some of his closest friends to talk
about being gay in the professional skateboarding industry and why he
chose
now to come out.
Read more articles from OUT, here.
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