Bay Area Reporter

September 20, 2007 on 12:34 pm in Press and reviews

Are there any gay surfers? Ed Aldridge says there’s him and about two or three other blokes. Aldridge should know, having spent the better part of a year scouring Australia to find enough openly queer board jockeys to populate Tan Lines, his hilarious account of an adolescent struggling to come out (to himself) and exit a randy little island community just offshore from Sydney. On the new DVD (TLA), Aldridge’s jocular commentary provides answers to such questions as why so many 16-year-old straight-identified surfer boys were willing to be gay for precious little pay, why there are so few surfing scenes in the movie, and finally, why so much bloody tea-pouring?

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