Global community for gay and lesbian surfers
So last Friday night I went and saw Out in theLineup, which was showing as part of theByron Bay Film Festival. Out in the Lineup is that film about gay and lesbian surfers that you have been hearing about for a while now, and which I have been really looking forward to seeing. From the film’s website: ‘Out in […]
Written by Rebecca Olive
“It started with a Google search. I typed in the words ‘gay’ and ‘surfer’” They’re not the first words spoken in Out In The Lineup but they make a fitting starting point for a review. Because although Out In The Lineup is a documentary it’s also a journey and those words are the embarkation point. They’re spoken by David Wakefield, […]
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by Steve Dow, Arts writer for SMH. As a child growing up in Santa Barbara, California, in the 1990s, Riley Herman would ride out into the surf on the nose of his dad’s long board, with his father behind him. Once he finished his architecture studies at university, Sydney beckoned, with a surfing culture much […]
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Editor’s note: Hudson Taylor, a three-time NCAA All-American wrestler at the University of Maryland, is a wrestling coach at Columbia University and the founder and executive director ofAthlete Ally, a nonprofit organization that educates, encourages and empowers the athletic community to help end homophobia, transphobia and bullying. It is partnered with All Out on the Principle 6 Campaign around the […]
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All is SWELL… I grew up in a country composed of 7,107 islands with the most beautiful beaches and happiest people on Earth… thePhilippines. The Philippines is well-known because of it’s tropical maritime climate and one-of-a-kind culture. This country is also known as the summer capital on Earth, which is usually humid and hot, and […]
Written by Paul Cardenas
SOCHI, RUSSIA – President Vladimir Putin promised Monday that gay athletes and guests at the Winter Olympics in Sochi will feel at ease, seeking to assuage fears fueled by a recent Russian law banning gay “propaganda.” Speaking at a meeting with heads of Russian winter sports federations, which was also attended by visiting IOC President […]
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Recently, UK rugby star Ben Cohen said that it was important that professional athletes, if they are going to announce they are gay, do so at the top of their game. Cohen has stepped away from a successful, 15-year rugby career to dedicate his time and effort to an anti-bullying organisation that focuses on allying with LGBT youth to […]
Written by Cori Schumacher
Published by News.com.au A TOP female surfer upset by Roxy’s controversial ads featuring Australian surfer Stephanie Gilmore is campaigning for the company to stop using “sexy” images of it’s women surfers. Three-time world champion surfer Cori Schumacher, who has posted her campaign at change.org, told The Los Angeles Times she was upset by the “all […]
Written by Cori Schumacher
Written on 16th July 2013 By Sam Haddad I’m sorry to be writing about this again. I want to move on as much as the next person but when you read comments such as “your army of dykes” on a pro surfer’s Facebook post in 2013 it just can’t be ignored. The words are from Warwick […]
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Many of you have probably heard or seen the recent video Roxy did to promote the Roxy Pro Biarritz 2013. It’s a bit of soft core porn with a “mystery” female surfer showing her very attractive bottom, bare back and tanned legs for almost 2 minutes. Does she actually do any surfing? Well, no. But […]
Written by Don
Some time ago I wrote an article entitled “Queer Waves” in which I explained some of my experiences of, discussions about, and attitudes towards homosexuality and surfing. I’ve also written about gender, sexuality and growing up as a surfer in a book entitled Notes for a Young Surfer (2010). Subsequently, I have been asked questions […]
Written by Clifton Evers
Originally Published by Queerty After figuring out that electroshock therapy and gay conversion therapy didn’t really work, a Catholic seminary in Wynnewood, PA has come up with yet another suggestion on how to force grown men into changing their sexuality. You know, because they chose it in the first place. The organization, run by Father […]
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Super Stoked that Surfer Magazine is giving us Gay Surferssome support and you can too! [Trailer: Out in the Lineup] On Monday, NBA center Jason Collins published an eloquent essay on Sports Illustrated’s website in which he revealed to the sports world that he’s gay. Collins is now the long-anticipated first active male athlete in a major American […]
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When two women love each other, share their lives and now motherhood, they think it’s only fair they should be able to marry. This is their heartfelt letter to the pollies. Dear Julia and Tony, As new parents of 11-week-old twin girls, we would love to make our family unit official by getting married – […]
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Written by Nigel Campbell | Saturday, 13 April 2013 Tags: nike, gay athletes, endorsements, professional sports The first professional gay athlete in a major U.S. sport is going to cash in in a big way—at least according to former Phoenix Suns executive Rick Welts. Welts, who came out as gay in 2011 and was an Instinct Leading Man that same […]
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PROFESSIONAL surfer Serena Brooke and her partner share a home, finances and now twin daughters. But the couple, who are in a loving and committed relationship, say the future for couples like them looks grim. Brooke and her partner, artist partner Emma Sheldrake, said they had everything except the opportunity to be legally married in Australia. Prime […]
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Published by Surf Europe The gays are coming! If you pardon the pun, it seems that gay surfers are attempting to claim their rightful spot in the line-up. Now in the old days, right about now I’d insert a gag about going the backdoor. In the old days you see, gays just didn’t surf. Surfing’s macho […]
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Written by Clare Sullivan (Student/Writer/Surfer) Originally published by The Inertia Earlier this year, around the time of the inaugural Australian Open of Surfing in Manly, I found myself at a friend-of-a-friend’s barbecue. Of the twelve or so guests, my girlfriend and I were the only ones who weren’t female professional surfers. I didn’t need to be […]
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SOMETIMES he’d say he had a girlfriend. In the world of Aussie rules football, Jason Ball thought he had to play up his ”blokeyness”. When teammates sledged opposition players, calling them ”homo” or ”fag”, he’d pretend not to care. Inside the footy club where he’d played since he was five, nobody knew he was gay. […]
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