By Kirk Jackson Throughout the history of the sport, as well as every other sport, there has been gay athlet. Wh boxg, this beg such a
Contents:
- ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
- WATCH: A YOUNG GAY BOXER FIGHTS FOR HIS FUTURE THIS MOVG QUEER SPORTS DRAMA
- EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
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 * current gay boxer *
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.
WATCH: A YOUNG GAY BOXER FIGHTS FOR HIS FUTURE THIS MOVG QUEER SPORTS DRAMA
* current gay boxer *
He remembers llg himself “the future world gay boxg champn” as a joke.
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.
EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
“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.