Category: LGBTQ2S+
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Stefanie Åkesson
Stefanie Åkesson (she/her) is from Falun, Sweden and has a long legacy of competitive skateboarding and an inspiring story. Her full list of contest wins can be found on her website such as being the Swedish freestyle champion over fifteen times! Stefanie explained via Facebook that “I got my first skateboard August 28, 1978. But…
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Alex White
If you are remotely invested in skateboarding today, you will have encountered Alex White (she/her). She’s an entertaining persona offering commentary, interviews, and judging duties at skateboard contests like the Olympics, Exposure, Wheels of Fortune, and SLS, she’s part of the rotating crew that delivers the Vent City podcast, long-time Chair of the Skate Like…
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Jaime Reyes
Jaime Reyes has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame (2025) and her impact on the progression of women’s street skating, especially in the 1990s is irrefutable. Jaime’s early sponsors included Real, Rookie, Zoo York, Gallaz, Alpha Numeric, Supreme, Venture trucks, Swiss bearings, Stealth Wheels and even Evian water. Over time, as some companies…
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Ocea Lei Iverson
In 2010, a powerful exhibit at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was launched called “How We Roll,” focused on Black surf and skate culture, and Ocea Lei Iverson (she/her/they/them) was part of the planning team focused on women’s participation. Ocea’s father is Black American with Indigenous heritage, and her mother is first…
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Judith Cohen
The original draft of this post from June 12, 2023, was an attempt to alert the skateboarding world that I was looking for Judith, as my internet sleuthing for one “Judy Cohen” was unsuccessful. And sure enough, a random Google search led Judith to my site and thankfully prompted her to write. Judith Cohen described…
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G.B. Jones
G.B. Jones is an artist who collaborated on the queer punk zine called J.D.’s (AKA Juvenile Delinquents / James Dean / J.D. Salinger / Just Desserts diner / Jack Daniels / Joy Division) with Bruce LaBruce and The New Lavender Panthers out of Toronto, Canada from 1985-1991. In the zine, they cultivated the queercore movement…
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Cyndy Pendergast
Cyndy Pendergast was a confident skater in the Mid-West in the 1970s and 1980s and is listed as a “notable member” of the Turf skateboard park on a Wikipedia page. Her name is included along with a host of male skaters, and the legendary Pattie Hoffman. The Turf, (aka “Surfin’ Turf”) was in Greenfield, Wisconsin…
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Kristy McNichol
Kristy McNichol was one of the biggest child stars of the 1970s performing within an ABC series called Family (1976 – 1980) in the role of Letitia “Buddy” Lawrence, winning two Emmy Awards as a result. Her skateboarding prowess on television made her an early influencer, and she also became an unknowing queer punk icon…
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Lauren Mollica
Lauren Mollica of New Brunswick, New Jersey (born in 1980) initially was a snowboarder, although she started dabbling in skateboarding in the late 1980s with her brothers. Lauren received her first board when she was 8 years-old, which was a Sims Kevin Staab, that she bought specifically because it featured pirates, combined with purple grip,…
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Lia Halloran
Lia Halloran is now a globally recognized artist creating massive, surreal images of space and sky, and at the heart of her story and creative inspiration is a passion for skateboarding, as well as physics and astronomy! Lia “was born in Chicago, IL, and grew up surfing and skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area…
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