Surfer, believed to be China’s first openly gay athlete, to attend Gay Games.

Xu Jingsen, or ASam, is a surfer from China.

‘We have the right to choose love and to be loved,’ he says.

A professional surfer in China has come out publicly as gay, believed to be the first Chinese athlete who has come out as LGBT.

The surfer, Xu Jingsen, or ASam in an Anglicized translation, will attend the August Gay Gamesin Paris.