What ’s like beg an openly gay boxer, 3 terrible tweets

boxers openly gay

Orlando Cz out as the first openly gay boxer

Contents:

ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN

Orlando Cz will create history by beg the first openly gay boxg world champn should he feat Terry Flanagan on Saturday. * boxers openly gay *

Will he be boxg's first openly gay champn? Cz aims to bee boxg's first openly gay world champn.

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

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 * boxers openly gay *

Beme boxg's first openly gay, active fighter 2012. Deeply embedd two worlds – boxg and Puerto Ri – that are found machismo, Cz has also bee a gay in to thoands.

On Saturday, Cz has the chance to create history – should he beat Bra’s Terry Flanagan for the WBO lightweight tle, the 35-year-old will bee the first ever openly gay world champn.

PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER

* boxers openly gay *

Boxg, like many other sports, is yet to fully open s arms to the ia of a gay athlete, somethg Cz has unsurprisgly experienced first-hand. “I don’t re if they say, ‘Orlando Cz is gay.

Wh so few openly gay, active profsnal athlet across all sports, Cz is aware what the rult of the fight will mean to those who look up to him. “The support of the gay muny, Puerto Ri, New York and different natnali, is very important, ” he says.

In 2013, his chance to bee the first openly gay boxg champn me and went btal fashn. Cz me out to his fay and a psychologist long before publicly announcg he was gay 2012. I don’t re that other people talk about me, sayg, ‘Orlando Cz is gay, Orlando is bad or bulls***.

PUERTO RIN BOXER ORLANDO CZ ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

Orlando Cz out as the first openly gay boxer * boxers openly gay *

For many, boxg is sport’s ultimate show of masculy and Cz still regularly fds himself fightg the misnceptn that a man n’t be both gay and mascule. “Sometim one, two or three people say, ‘you’re gay, and you’re a boxer… wow. I say, ‘I am gay, but I am a man like you.

PUERTO RIN BOXER ORLANDO CZ ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

The featherweight om Puerto Ri says he's a 'proud gay man' * boxers openly gay *

“I am gay and I am the first openly gay boxer, but this has been my reer for years. “People say, ‘Orlando is gay but this is boxg, boxg is macho. ’ I have to tell them, ‘Orlando Cz is gay, but he’s a man… not a girl.

ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER

“Ee Griffh never spoke publicly or told an terview he was gay, ” Cz says. Cz n still vividly remember the feelg of steppg to the rg for the first time as an openly gay man, retag his WBO Lato Featherweight tle agast Mexin Je Pazos.

Such is Cz’s fluence the gay muny and wir sportg world, Jason Colls – the first openly gay active basketball player – ntacted him to say he’s an spiratn for “g out of the closet.

WHAT ’S LIKE BEG AN OPENLY GAY BOXER, 3 TERRIBLE TWEETS

Wh gay marriage illegal Puerto Ri – the Caribbean island where the uple ris, albe at oppose sis of the untry – and many US stat, they had some thkg to do.

The Englishman’s sister, a profsnal footballer the Women’s Super League, is also openly gay.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BOXERS OPENLY GAY

Orlando Cz: Boxer dreams of beg first openly gay world champn | CNN .

TOP