Yann Horowitz

Yann Horowitz is a South African skateboarder from Umdloti, a small beach town near Durban, who trained as an artistic gymnast before taking up skateboarding at 13 and came out publicly in 2013, becoming one of skateboarding's most visible openly gay pros. He won the Vans Park Series African Continental Championships in 2018 — famously kissing his boyfriend in celebration — and was the subject of the Vans x Skateism documentary "Pride", released on Coming Out Day 2020. He is credited (as Yann-Xavier Horowitz) among the riders in Vans Europe's 2024 full-length video "Where Is Tom?".

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