Gay Surfers Do In Fact Exist Outside Of Porn

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Some people (*cough* billoreilly*cough*) made it seem like Brokeback Mountain took one of America’s most masculine images, the cowboy, and tossed him onto a gay pride float, singing “I Will Survive,” while wearing nothing but a pink feather boa.

No, that didn’t happen. Well, not until those annual pride parades start packing the country’s gay meccas come this summer.

Now some Australians seem to be worried that a new movie might tarnish the image of one of their own macho icons: the surfer. The movie, called Tan Lines (we know we’ve seen, like, at least a dozen pornos with that title already), is directed by a gay surfer who wants to open people’s eyes to the existence of those like himself.

Some Aussies don’t think the movie will appeal to nonathletic gays. Says one hetero surfing stud: “I feel it’s more of a manly sport, and as gay men have more feminism in them it’s not likely to appeal to them.”

Apparently, their image of gay men consists of a sissy-throwing bon-bon eating queen. Someone please inform Dave Kopay, Billy Bean, Mike Piaz-, um, we mean Greg Louganis.

Still another gives us the most enlightening quote yet: “If gays realised how good for their bodies surfing was they might be interested in getting out there and shaping up.”

Well if you put it that way…

Surfin’ US Gay [The Independent]

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