I originally posted this interview directly to my Instagram account 5-6 months ago, before I had gotten the scanner that I currently use. I rescanned it to have it live in a more permanent place on the blog, and to have it be in better quality. I'll post the original Instagram caption below.
"The Zach Lyons interview from the May 2008 issue of Skateboarder. Intro by Bobby Worrest, words by Adam Salo, and photos by Jonathan Mehring. On the last page of the interview, Zach mentions how his friends make fun of him for having a "gay" taste in music because he likes listening to women singers, and how he thinks that's a dumb perspective to have. This stuck out to me when I read it in 2008 because it was the first time that I personally saw a skateboarder talking about homophobia (I realize that this wasn't the first time ever, skaters like Ed Templeton had been talking about it years prior). It was neat to read an interview where the skater talked about this kind of stuff, even if it was in a brief informal way. I've been stoked on Zach ever since. His flatground nollie 360 flip in Get Familiar helps, too."
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