2013 Greetings + video

2012-12-ByronBay 2014 from Gay Surfers on Vimeo. Happy New Year! We’re excited to be entering 2013 with over 4,400 gay surfers registered on our site, initial filming done on our documentary, and new team members to help drive our vision for the future. Our mission remains the same, to promote acceptance, tolerance and freedom for […]

WESTERLY: A MAN, A WOMAN, AN ENIGMA

Westerly: A Man, A Woman, An Enigma Written/Directed by Alan White & Jamie Brisick Music By Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeney Westerly is a feature length documentary film about Peter Drouyn and his controversial metamorphosis into Westerly Windina. Peter Drouyn was one of surfing’s first superstars. A true visionary, he dominated the international competitive […]

Launch a TRAVEL section on GS

To the chagrin of many surfers who feel they have found the perfect undiscovered surf location, an internet site turns around and spreads the word like gossip in a high school hallway. Sites such as globalsurfer.com, surfline.com and magicseaweed.com already offer extensive databases of thousands of breaks throughout the world. These sites address the most […]

Help build a GS IPHONE APP

We would like to develop an IPHONE application for GaySurfers.net. The app would let users see other members around them (similar to GRINDR). It would allow them to create events and send push notifications to invite other members to go surfing with them. Are you an Iphone App developer ?Can you volunteer some time to […]

San Diego meetup (photos)

We met about 40 gay surfers in San Diego, surfed, BBQ and chilled for a week. And we are now off to Mexico. Here are a few pics from the video footage – we have not had time to view it all, but we are really happy with it so far! I can send you […]

Homophobia in Aussie Rules Football

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. […]

Drown (The Movie)

Another feature film about a gay surfer is currently in Production: Three surf lifesavers on a big night out. Jealousy, homophobic fears and unrequited lust culminate in a tragic booze-fueled episode of near-fatal bullying. Based on the acclaimed play by Stephen Davis and following the themes of Dean Francis’ controversial short Boys Grammar, DROWN is […]

Gay Olympic Athletes Still Scarce At London 2012 Games

Originally published by huffingtonpost By JILL LAWLESS 08/09/2012 LONDON — It has been a great games for gay Olympians – probably. British equestrian Carl Hester won gold in team dressage in London. Midfielder Megan Rapinoe has scored three goals for the U.S. women’s soccer team and several other lesbian players are part of the Dutch […]

Tackling the taboo of homosexuality in Dutch football

The Netherlands may still enjoy a vestige of its former reputation for liberal tolerance amongst its global country peers but recent political developments have seen a populist right-wing anti-islam party tacitly supporting a right-wing coalition which has been tough on immigration and also came up with the ‘brilliant’ idea of the Weed Pass, which may potentially make […]

Interview with Javier D’Onofrio

Originally published by gravedadzero.tv – Translated with Google Translation. On your website there is a maximum that caught my attention. “Surfing and creating are pillars of evolution” Could explayarte in this concept? The Artist is like a surfer who seeks to evolve with their maneuvers in the water, where surfing, I see that the artist […]

Nike LGBT Sport Summit Report

The Washington Blade looks at last weekend’s Nike LGBT Sport Summit in Portland, where Team DC president Les Johnson represented the Federation of Gay Games, and where other Washingtonians also participated: A transgender former George Washington University basketball player was among the nearly 30 people who took part in an LGBT sports summit at Nike’s […]

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