Killer Punch of a Secretly Gay Boxer

Contents:

• KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER
• ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
• GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
• EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER

Griffh was gay, and at the weigh- before the fight, Paret had tnted him, llg him a “marin, ” a rogatory Spanish term, siar to “faggot. He was a black man and an unrdog, and then he was hangg out gay bars and gettg beaten up by thugs. ”Bentt, the boxer who traed Blanchard, says that Caribbean society is particularly macho and homophobic.

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.

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

" Mart, who has sce survived a murr attempt when her hband shot and knifed her, is now retired and volved a gay relatnship. "However, Cz, who is 32, is not a mpaigner for gay rights jt yet and he has polely refed all attempts to csa on behalf of other gay athlet, men like him stgglg to e to terms wh tellg the people they pete wh, or for, that they are gay. However, private he has obvly spoken to other boxers facg the same dilemma he did last has received a lot of media attentn this week (Getty) (Getty Imag)"Perhaps there are other gay boxers and perhaps they are too sred to say anythg, " Cz says.

GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH

" Hopefully, there will not be a reverse wch-hunt boxg, like there is other sports, where people on the outsi bee fixated on outg more gay athlet; the people boxg simply don't re. " All boxers world tle fights have to unrgo and pass a route HIV tt and plenty, none of whom said they were gay, have failed the has dited Saturday's fight to Ee Griffh, one of the greatt boxers history, who died this summer after admtg late his life that he had slept wh both men and women. He was om a time when homosexuals were not lled "gay" and he hated the word once was ed to scribe him when he fally end three s of speculatn.

The Cuban never revered and died a few days emerged later that Paret had lled Griffh a marin, the Spanish word for homosexual, and had touched him appropriately when the pair weighed for the fight; Paret was naked at the time, which is not unmon for a tle fight.

There has always been a bate about whether Paret meant or was jt sayg to get unr Griffh's sk; Griffh told me that Paret had been ma to say , but that was heartfelt and meant, which is good enough for late great Ee Griffh me out after he retired (Getty) (Getty Imag)Griffh had stggled wh his sexualy throughout his reer and retirement and 1992 was left for ad after five thugs on a "fag-bashg" rampage attacked him wh baseball bats outsi a gay club New York.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

"This fight is for Ee bee he never had the backg and support that I have had, " add Saturday Cz starts as a heavy unrdog agast former champn Salido but will still leave the rg as the first openly gay male boxer to fight for a world tle. He proposed to Manuel on Facebook earlier this year and, has to be said, if he was thkg of makg the transn to gay fighter low-key, then planng a same-sex marriage was a bold move. Cz was also a first-year ductee to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame Chigo this summer, alongsi Greg Louganis and Marta n also really fight and the thls bs of boxg, a sport that has not really changed 150 years, that is all that matters; mak no difference if you are black, whe, gay, straight, male, female, nice, unpleasant, Christian, Mlim, ugly or handsome, as long as you have guts and n have a fight.

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HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE

I’m gog to tell you about ‘A Boxer’, a graphic novel that featur a fighter tryg to rencile the hypermasculy fostered bat sports wh his sexualy as a gay man.

A few weeks later, a different stunt approached me and said that he was gay and that he was sred of what his fay would thk. If he publicly reveals his sexualy, he will be forever remembered as ‘the gay boxer’ due to a lack of other LGBTQ athlet. Not ‘The Greatt of all Time’ or ‘The Badst Man on the Pla’, but as the fighter who is datg his out gay cutman.

Jt after we first pched the book to our publisher, BHP Comics, a Twter acunt named The Gay Footballer appeared, which a er claimg to be an LGBTQ athlete started discsg the very them that we were explorg. So is to The Gay Footballer, to those Che stunts who put their tst a foreign teacher, and to Orlando Cz (the first out gay profsnal boxer), to whom our book will be dited. 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.

EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75

As well as troducg the sport to a whole new dience, Stark hop that the WGBC n “dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

“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 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.