Global community for gay and lesbian surfers
The video is finally released – thanks to all the members of GS who sent their footage! December 2011 Music by GUNG HO, a young band from Brisbane making nostalgic surf inspired catchy indie jams – (Buy on iTunes) To license this song contact music@futureclassic.com.au
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SOMETIMES he’d say he had a girlfriend. In the world of Aussie rules football, Jason Ball thought he had to play up his ”blokeyness”. When teammates sledged opposition players, calling them ”homo” or ”fag”, he’d pretend not to care. Inside the footy club where he’d played since he was five, nobody knew he was gay. […]
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SUBMERGE is a Blog I like: Alternative Surfcraft Design, Photography, Inspiration… Check out the last letter from Dean : ————— The SUBMERGE BLOG has changed. No longer does it belong to it’s little stepbrother ‘SHACKSIDE’ (that was awhile ago), and nor is it about my black and white photography (not really anyway). SUBMERGE is now […]
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Scott Needham is a man of vision. As a professional photographer, he is one of the originators of the extreme sports genre of lifestyle and photography. His work is astonishingly beautiful and he possesses the rare gift of being able to define culture through his art, especially surf culture. Scott’s CV reads like a who’s […]
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GaySurfers.net – 2011 summary “There are gay people everywhere, in every profession, in all sports, including the surfing world. Yet, it’s not easy to meet other gay surfers in the line-up.” That’s why Thomas has created an online community for surfers who are gay or lesbian. “This is the first of its kind, and in […]
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Every morning Aquabumps founder Eugene Tan shoots the surf, the beach, the waves and people at Bondi Beach, Australia. Uge has combined his 3 passions – photography, design. He has been shooting since he was 9 years old and surfing for 25 years. Born out of Bondi Beach, Aquabumps is a daily documentary of Australian […]
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Originally published by stabmag Two years ago, surfing’s greatest photo journalist disappeared from the scene. Fred Pawle investigates why. “On chemicals, especially those ecstasy things, it’s not just possible but highly probable that you’ll do something you otherwise wouldn’t do. On chemicals literally anything is likely and even acceptable – until ground zero the following […]
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The Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade (now called the Sydney Mardi Gras) will happen again in the streets of Sydney this coming march. After our awesome participation in the 2011 mardi gras the organizers asked us if we wanted to be part of it for a second consecutive year, but we did not find enough volunteers […]
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A group of us gay surfers attended CoastOut gay beach festival the last weekend of October (28, 29 & 30 October 2011), at Coffs Harbour (Australia). A few of us participated in the first ever gay surf competition on the Saturday morning, David made it in the final!! He was the only gay surfer in the final […]
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WRITTEN BY SERKAN OZTURK | 23 JUNE 2011 Published by City Voice newspaper On July 17, salty haired surfers from around the city will gather at the iconic Manly and Bondi beaches to take part in the first ever International Gay Surfers Day. The day has been organised by trailblazing website GaySurfers.net following the quick […]
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By Renee Schwartz Renne, a transgendered surfer from South Australia wrote the true story of her own surfing life. She would love to go surfing again with her new identity… Content Growing up in Adelaide 1959 – What a year it was. I’ll never forget it! Those lazy, crazy Summer Days Surfing with the Postie […]
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May 14, 2011 By Jon Lyus Eagle eyed visitors to Cannes can spot all sorts of new images and posters for the films that will be coming our way in the next few years and while waltzing from the beach to the next soiree Dave snapped the poster for a new Sam Worthington film. Drift, […]
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Published by TRACKS magazine, Australia. May 2011. (Read the Full version here) It’s a secret. It’s surfIng. and It’s sexual. fark, It’s a headlIner rod cunthorpe would gIve hIs crusty rIght gonad for. Words By the fly. Surfing’s latest so-called dark secret was going down quietly long before surf legend cum gender bender peter drouyn […]
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By Sean O’Connell, Hollywoodnews.com: Sam Worthington is trading his sky-blue “Avatar” duds for the ocean-blue crash of the raging waves. The actor has agreed to star in “Drift,” a drama set in the surfing community that will be financed by Screen Australia, Variety reports. “‘Drift’ combines serious Australian talent both in front of and behind […]
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By Jamie Brisick | 11 February 2011 Shedding Peter Drouyn and becoming Westery Windina By Jamie Brisick Westerly Windina peers into a vintage hand mirror and applies ruby-red lipstick to her puckered lips. She wears a white blouse, red bolero jacket, black slit skirt, black-and-white Chanel-style ballerina flats, and gold chunk jewelry. She sits with […]
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Check out the press release: https://www.gaysurfers.net/2011/02/press-release-surfing-to-be-represented-at-mardi-gras-for-the-first-time/
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Gay Surfers at Sydney Mardi Gras 2011 – The video documentary Gay Surfers at Sydney Mardi Gras 2011 -TV broadcast
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Even though it is 6 months old, I just received some photos of CoastOut, the gay and Lebian beach festival that happened in October last year in Coffs Harbour, Australia. CoastOut 2011 will happen on 28, 29, 30 October 2011 Register to attend with other Gay Surfers here: https://www.gaysurfers.net/events/active/coastout-2011/
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This year, a group of surfers marched with their surfboards in the parade of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia. Thomas, the founder of GaySurfers.net explains, “By participating in Mardi Gras, we are showing the public that a healthy diversity exists in both the gay community and the surfing community.” Led by […]
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