Planetout.com is on a man hunt for gay male surfers, but they’re having a rough time finding any. They even went so far as asking The Encyclopedia of Surfing author (and San Francisco resident) Matt Warshaw if he knows of any.
“If there was going to be a place where there would be openly gay surfers, this would be it,” says Matt Warshaw, the San Francisco-based author of “The Encyclopedia of Surfing”, “but you just don’t see it.” . . . Warshaw is straight, but he’s been writing about demographic trends in surfing for years and the ongoing invisibility of gay men confounds him. “I’m baffled as to whether it’s a sport that has happily or unhappily closeted surfers,” he admits, “or if it’s so staunchly hetero that it’s like a force-field to keep gays out.”
Yeah, Matt. We’re going to have to go with the anti-gay force-field.
[Link: Planetout.com]
