title: GaySurfers.net
text: # GaySurfers.net
  
  GaySurfers.net is a global community that promotes diversity within the surfing community and provide the means for LGBT surfers to connect. The website was featured in the award-winning documentary film Out in the Lineup.
  
  ## History
  
  GaySurfers.net was created in 2010 by Thomas Castets, who also produced the Out in the Lineup, a documentary that explores homophobia in the surfing community. Castets, a surfer from Sydney, Australia, created the website hoping to find out if there were any other gay surfers. Within weeks of launching the website, more than 300 surfers contacted him.
  
  