'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

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ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

“We try to offer an opportuny to people who have never boxed before to disver the sport bee, let’s be hont, a lot of boxg spac are a ltle b homophobic and transphobic. It tak a real effort to ci what happens if there’s a homophobic or transphobic cint. One borg day shift, a red-head man drsed sports gear stormed and announced that he was gog to teach gay guys how to fight.

"Dermot was a straight boxg promoter, and his lightbulb ia was that gay guys were an untapped market.

I'd always enjoyed keepg f, but boxg had never seemed a sport signed to wele me: a patriarchal world away om the dis lights, drag queens, and Rihanna tun of the gay scene. It was the first, and as far as I know, still the only all-gay boxg Collar no longer ns, but I now tra at Knockout LGBT Boxg Club Holloway. When faced wh this unexpected nontatn om a homosexual, he half-heartedly mumbled "fuckg queer, " got back to his r, and drove off.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

"When I was my mid-20s, I went to a Southend gay pub for a drk, " he says. "This guy across the road saw me walk out and started shoutg homophobic thgs.

I've met a genue group of gay men, several of whom I n ll really good iends. "Yet reactns agast the club have e, oddly enough, om gay men themselv. Onle ments have clud accatns of members tryg to be "straight-actg, " or of beg "self-hatg" gays chasg masculy.

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'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway.

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