{"id":592,"date":"2008-03-11T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T23:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2008-03-11T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T04:50:42","slug":"warshaw-and-surfings-anti-gay-force-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Warshaw And Surfing&#8217;s Anti-Gay Force Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/brick-wall.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/brick-wall.jpg','popup','width=195,height=372,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/brick-wall-tm.jpg\" height=\"190\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Brick Wall\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetout.com\/fitness\/article.html?sernum=5526&amp;navpath=\/channels\/fitness\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planetout.com<\/a><\/strong> is on a man hunt for gay male surfers, but they&#8217;re having a rough time finding any. They even went so far as asking <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0156032511%26tag=sacklunch%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0156032511%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">The Encyclopedia of Surfing<\/a><\/em><\/strong> author (and San Francisco resident) <strong>Matt Warshaw<\/strong> if he knows of any.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If there was going to be a place where there would be openly gay surfers, this would be it,&#8221; says Matt Warshaw, the San Francisco-based author of &#8220;The Encyclopedia of Surfing&#8221;, &#8220;but you just don&#8217;t see it.&#8221; . . . Warshaw is straight, but he&#8217;s been writing about demographic trends in surfing for years and the ongoing invisibility of gay men confounds him. &#8220;I&#8217;m baffled as to whether it&#8217;s a sport that has happily or unhappily closeted surfers,&#8221; he admits, &#8220;or if it&#8217;s so staunchly hetero that it&#8217;s like a force-field to keep gays out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Matt. We&#8217;re going to have to go with the anti-gay force-field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetout.com\/fitness\/article.html?sernum=5526&amp;navpath=\/channels\/fitness\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planetout.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetout.com is on a man hunt for gay male surfers, but they&#8217;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. &#8220;If there was going to be a place where there would be openly gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}