Category: Gay
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Vans, Reef, and Anti-Gay Legislation
“There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal…
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On being “OUT in the Line-up” (radio interview)
This week, I joined Wes Terry during his radio show on All Action Sports Network to discuss the award-winning documentary OUT in the Line-Up and my personal experiences growing up as an aspiring professional surfer in a homophobic environment. The interview is available online: Part 1 Part 2 The article Wes read from in Part…
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“quick someone shoot that… feminist dyke”
How controlling is Big Surfing? What are its mechanisms of control? Is this really the happy-go-lucky lifestyle it professes to be? I’ll leave that to the reader’s discretion to determine. 1) People who disagreed with Chad Wells’ comments are not all “dykes” 2) Asking Big Surfing to enter the 21st century does not equal the…
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Lesbian-Baiting, a la roxy surfing 2013
One of the most prevalent tools of sexism in the surf industry has been and continues to be lesbian-baiting. Lesbian baiting occurs most often when rumblings are felt within the sexist status quo, when women gain more power in a hierarchy, or when they are acting more self-assertive and less deferential than their male-counterparts…
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Gay Surf Narratives Matter
What does the swallow think of the pelican’s flight? Does Swallow wonder at Pelican’s lack of movement? Does Swallow gape at the protracted lengths of Pelican’s glide? Swallow’s agility and quickness allow it to escape hawkish predators Pelican does not fear. Swallow treats the updraft flurries of salted draughts that press against cliff sides like…
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First documentary on gay surfers (trailer)
The first documentary to tackle what it is like for gay surfers in the line-up and in the surf industry is being made as we speak. I am stoked to be a part of this project and am very much looking forward to listening to my fellow surfers talk about their experiences from around the…
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Surfing’s Culture of Silence
“Platforms are judged by the value generated by their ecosystem, not by the value the platforms directly capture.” -Dalton Caldwell (Please be advised, this post contains explicit language from Twitter feeds.) The language of surfing has long been dominated by the motion and gestures of the body. The narratives we construct, the legends, the mythologies,…
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The Patriarchy?
“There is, it should be evident, no universal patriarchal framework that [global feminism] attempts to counter and resist – unless one posits an international male conspiracy or a monolithic, ahistorical power structure. There is, however, a particular world balance of power within which any analysis of culture, ideology, and socioeconomic conditions necessarily has to be…
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Quintessential Girl: Huck Magazine Issue #033
“My mother approached me when I was making a shift in my surfing career at the age of seventeen. She had come with a dire warning, one born of her many years as a competitive surfer. She had been discussing my future in professional surfing with the mother of a well-known local surf icon.” ……
