Puerto Rin n make history by beg the first openly gay world champn on Saturday. He tells Steve Bunce about g out the macho world of boxg
Contents:
- ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
- THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
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Maloney rpond: "I'm not homophobic but public let's live a proper moral life - I thk that's important. "I don't thk they [gay people] do a lot for society. I don't have a problem wh gays, what I have a problem wh is them openly flntg their sexualy.
THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
The only person who knew about her secret double-life was her homosexual hoemate and iend, Alan Ferris.
“Bee I was gettg more and more succsful boxg, I was terrified of my feelgs ever beg found out, ” she says, addg: “In those days even if an MP was gay, the prs would stroy their reers. Are you gay? He was gay and like all boxers, at all levels, he was judged on whether he uld fight and not on his sexual preferenc; the Pounr, who wore pk, was a nice guy but not much of a fighter and nobody held that agast Saturday Las Vegas, Orlando Cz, which is his real name, will bee the first openly gay boxer to w a world tle if he n overe the odds and beat Orlando Salido for the vant WBO featherweight tle.
Cz announced he was gay last year, never lost his promoter, never lost his rankg and never lost a sgle iend om si the ugly bs of boxg. "Cz fought for Puerto Ri at the Sydney Olympics 2000 and has been a ge ntenr for a uple of years and gay for a lot longer. "I'm a boxer first, I want to be a world champn and remembered that way and not as a gay boxer, " he the Neti, Christy Mart, another boxg pneer, said somethg siar about women the sport: "I fight for Christy Mart and not for women's rights to box.