A team from GS is preparing a documentary that examines the often taboo subject of homosexuality in surfing. The film will focus on pertinent historical and social issues. It will feature interviews from key pioneers [...]

Take two Brazilians, an Aussie, a few boards, the week around New Years Eve and put them in Byron Bay, Australia, and things are going to get hectic! Add to the mix the end of [...]

Walking with my surfboard through the streets of Sydney towards that gathering crowd was a powerful experience. I was fuelled on by Joel Burn’s city council speech to gay youth ‘It gets better’. I was [...]

Surfers and whales are intrinsically linked – not just the fact that sharks take a bite of us both every now and again. Whales fascinate us, fill us with awe and move us to the [...]

A group of us gay surfers attended CoastOut gay beach festival the last weekend of October (28, 29 & 30 October 2011), at Coffs Harbour (Australia). A few of us participated in the first ever gay surf [...]

I joked with Thomas, the founder of GaySurfers.net, the first time I chatted with him on Skype, saying that I felt like I was meeting Unicorns (“You DO exist!”) when I met him and those [...]

Bolsa Chica, 9 Oct 11 Sunny, relatively warm, clean conditions — it was a beautiful morning in the OC last Sunday for the cadre paddling out at Bolsa Chica. Jake (aka Art), Ed, Denis, & [...]

Published by Next Magazine, New York, NY, 10013 The pro surf circuit may still have unresolved issues with homophobia, but the surf culture in New York has long been one of acceptance. In hopes that [...]

Dear fellow surfers, It my pleasure to introduce myself as one of the group admins for the Costa Rica group on gaysurfers.net. Originally from Holland, I moved to beautiful Playa Tamarindo on the Pacific Coast [...]