THE STRANGER
Until recently, skateboarding was the only major sport in which not a single professional was out of the closet. That’s right, from basketball on down to bobsledding, there are out pros.
Last September, that changed. Legendary skate pro Brian Anderson came out of the closet in a splashy VICE Sports documentary, and the skateboard world responded by giving itself a big collective pat on the back. While Anderson’s announcement is absolutely a milestone for skateboarding, as a die-hard skateboarder myself, it’s been hard to join in the celebration. You see, I’ve been skateboarding for 16 years, and I’ve known I wasn’t entirely straight for 15 of them.