{"id":62589,"date":"2019-12-18T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62589"},"modified":"2019-12-20T02:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:49:39","slug":"jason-ellis-says-bi-guys-get-no-lgbtq-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=62589","title":{"rendered":"Jason Ellis Says Bi Guys Get No Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Former pro skateboarder, MMA tough guy, and Sirius Radio host Jason Ellis<\/strong>, one of our favorite early 90s skaters, reportedly reaffirmed his bi-sexuality in October 2019. Now according to essay for Advocate<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, he says the LGBTQ community is completely unaccepting of him, according to a story in the New York Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In a touching opinion piece published in the Advocate <\/a>Tuesday, the Australian-born record-breaking skateboarder \u2014 who\u2019s \u201clucky enough to be able to have sex with men,\u201d and that who\u2019s now \u201cmarried to a woman I love,\u201d slammed the LGBTQ community for not accepting \u2014 or even believing in \u2014 bisexual men. . . I just don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m welcome in the community right now. When men I have sex with find out I\u2019m married to a woman they tell me things like, \u201cit\u2019s just a phase,\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019ll be gay eventually.\u201d They tell me bisexuality doesn\u2019t exist. They tell me what I do and how I define myself don\u2019t exist,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It appears that no matter what his venue Ellis continues to be a solid outsider. For more details on the man, check out his most recent autobiography Still Awesome: The Trials and Tribulations of an Egotistical Maniac<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[Link: New York Daily News<\/a> & The Advocate<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former pro skateboarder, MMA tough guy, and Sirius Radio host Jason Ellis, one of our favorite early 90s skaters, reportedly reaffirmed his bi-sexuality in October 2019. Now according to essay for Advocate, he says the LGBTQ community is completely unaccepting of him, according to a story in the New York Daily News. In a touching opinion piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62600,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62589\/revisions\/62600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}