who was the first gay pro street skater

[natenola forever]

Chip lived in New Orleans for a year or so, idk why maybe school but we'd see him with the cool crew at spots occasionally when he first started getting in mags. An old pro told me about Billy Ruff hitting on him at a bar one time, idk if that means anything, isn't there a bunch of stories about Rune being on some very open bisexual stuff? So who turned pro first Forest or Brain Anderson? Forest has been around as a big am forever so i'm not sure when he actually got a board, also everyone in Texas has been doing a terrible job of keeping his sexuality a secret for a very long time.

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forrest came out publicy after his career was pretty much done with, but i think it was before brian anderson by a solid few years. not sure who turned pro first though

[MexicanSpaniard]

We all knew but mid - late nineties nobody said anything about Fore

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brian anderson turned pro in 1998 while tony cox turned pro in 2001. can't find an exact date for forrest but probably around the same time as b.a, so i guess b.a. might be the answer? or it's a coin toss

low key thought tony cox might have had a board on some tiny ass board brand from the mid nineties but it was actually on supernaut

https://www.skateboarding.com/news/check-outcheck-in-tony-cox

[matty_c]

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The first pro who was out when they were pro was Vanessa Torres.

She doesn't get nearly enough credit for this.

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Tbf she probably doesn’t get enough credit in general haha, it’s probably just her, Elissa, and Hayley for girls that were/are legitimate street skaters and were/are on proper companies

Poe pinson will get there too I think

I thought

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Jaime Reyes

Yea sick I’ll have a look
No idea what I meant by ‘I thought’ I must have been gonna say something else but I have forgotten now

[matty_c]

We all knew but mid - late nineties nobody said anything about Fore

He follows me on instagram, no idea why
He seems like such a good dude fuck he was good back in the day

[rocklobster]

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no clue who the first gay vert pro could be either, maybe someone from the eighties which is before my time. i'm sure someone has the answer

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Ali Cairns? Could be misremembering but he got kicked off after coming out.
https://www.instagram.com/alicairns_/?hl=en

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Looks like he's currently married to a woman and has a daughter?
Did he come out as bi?

My bad I remember there was a shortlived Birdhouse rider who got the boot