While not the first professional skateboarder to come out, Mr. Last fall he starred in Vice Sports’s video, in which the 6-foot-3 burly boarder came out as gay and set that world ablaze.
“There’s been a bunch of those messages.” Anderson is preparing for Go Skateboarding Day, an annual holiday wherein fans of the sport are encouraged to go out and skate, which fell on June 21 this year, and he’s talking to me from his kitchen in Jackson Heights, Queens, drinking green tea while his husband snores in bed nearby. “I’ve heard stories where people tell me, ‘My niece came out because she saw your story,’ ” says pro skateboarder Brian Anderson.
