Le Prokop, a Nashville Predators draft pick and Alberta native, announced Monday that he was "proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay."
Contents:
- LC REMEMBERED AS OLYMPIC CHAMP, GAY ROLE MOL
- WHAT ’S LIKE BEG AN OPENLY GAY BOXER, 3 TERRIBLE TWEETS
- ORLANDO CZ FIGHTS TO BEE BOXG’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
- NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
LC REMEMBERED AS OLYMPIC CHAMP, GAY ROLE MOL
Canadian boxer Mark Lc, who earned a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics and was one of the few athlet his sport to e out as gay, died on Wednday. * gay canadian boxer *
SportsCanadian boxer Mark Lc, who earned a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics and was one of the few athlet his sport to e out as gay, died on Lc, who earned a silver medal boxg for Canada at the 1992 Olympics and later announced he was gay, died on was was found unnsc a sna on Sunday and might have died om heat stroke, acrdg to a report the Toronto marked the end of a fascatg life that uld have easily not reached s full potential. Both would go on to speak publicly about beg gay and breakg barriers won four bouts at the 1992 Barcelona Gam the 139-lb light welterweight class, cludg over future pro tle-holr Leonard Dor. He won four of five fights before cidg to the same time, he publicly announced he was Lc wasn't the first boxer to stggle wh his sexualy — former world champn Ee Griffh preced him that regard — beg gay was fely not monplace the sport.
WHAT ’S LIKE BEG AN OPENLY GAY BOXER, 3 TERRIBLE TWEETS
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Both athlet also spent time talkg to gay youth. Through his journey boxg, Stark has e to anize the World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC), the world’s first LGBTQI+ boxg tournament, which will be held Sydney 2023.
As well as troducg the sport to a whole new dience, Stark hop that the WGBC n “dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport. “And I thk that’s where my whole spir of clivy om – bee of what other people have achieved and for me, my anizatn, we’re very much around the grassroots and amatr level, but we want to dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport. He remembers llg himself “the future world gay boxg champn” as a joke.
ORLANDO CZ FIGHTS TO BEE BOXG’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHAMPN
He did have dreams of boxg at the 2022 Gay Gam, but the sport was elimated om the upg gam – postponed until 2023 bee of the ronavis panmic. “There have been very few out profsnal gay male boxers who have won major champnships, ” he explaed. Like the Bgham Cup – a biennial, ternatnal, non-profsnal, gay gby unn tournament – he hop that the WGBC n enurage young members of the LGBTQI+ muny wh an tert boxg to try the sport.
But as well as enuragg engagement wh the sweet science, Stark hop he n have an effect on stoppg homophobia and transphobia sport. Acrdg to one study, 80 percent of the more than 12, 000 participants om across the world have wnsed or experienced homophobia sports.
The study also found that 78 percent of the participants believed that an openly gay person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sportg event. “The reason I set up the anizatn, I want [homophobia, transphobia, etc.
NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
The Puerto Rin boxer, who 2012 beme the first active fighter to e out as gay, was stopped the eighth round by WBO lightweight champn Terry Flanagan on Saturday Cardiff, Wal. He was also set back on Twter, where those wh his own dtry ma homophobic remarks at his expense.
“I have nothg agast gay people have gay iends, ” Gav said, as his nearly 50, 000 followers waed for the “but” that would e. “But if I lost to a gay lad I would get bantered for life by pals so Flanagan has to w. For Cz, who has bee an in wh the gay muny, the cheap shots likely are jt more blows that glance off.