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• ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS
• CZ BE FIRST BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY BOXER ORLANDO CZ STGGLED WH G OUT
• BOXER EE GRIFFH OUT AS GAY
• ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER
• ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
• ORLANDO CZ BE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY
• PHILLY BOXER WH 10 KIDS WHO WAS OUTED AFTER GAY PORN ROMP ADMS HE’S GAY
• BOXER YAF MACK COM OUT AS BISEXUAL, APOLOGIZ TO BLACK GAY PORN STUD OVER CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED BEFORE FILMG
• ORLANDO CZ, THEFIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER, OUT FIGHTG
• ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'
• BOXG-ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS
• ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'
• THIS GAY BOXER FACED ATH TWICE, AND ME OUT SWGG ON THE OTHER SI
• ORLANDO CZ FIGHTS TO BEE BOXG’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS

Irma Tta of Italy actn agast Nthy Petec of the Philipp REUTERS/Ulei MarceloROME, Dec 3 (Rters) - Italy's Olympic bronze medal-wng boxer Irma Tta has e out as gay, sayg her succs at the Tokyo Gam earlier this year gave her the strength to make her sexual orientatn 23-year-old boxer won bronze the women's featherweight tegory at Tokyo 2020. "Tta follows the lik of Bra's double Olympic gold medallist Nila Adams and Ireland's Olympic lightweight champn Kellie Harrgton beg an openly gay female than 160 openly LGBTQ athlet peted Tokyo, makg the most clive Gam ever held.

"Former two-weight world champn Ee Griffhexternal-lk me out as bisexual an terview wh Sports Illtrated magaze, but his admissn me after he had Bra, only Surrey cricketer Steven Davi, external-lk footballer Jt Fashanu, who took his own life 1998, external-lk and dual- gby ternatnal Gareth Thomas have e out durg their 2007, Brish basketball star John Amaechi beme the first NBA player to publicly announce he was gay, but he had retired three years prevly.

CZ BE FIRST BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY

Has his first fight sce announcement on FridayFirst active boxer to publicly e outHas gaed support the gay munyKISSIMMEE, Fla. — For so many years, Puerto Rin featherweight Orlando Cz stggled wh nflictg emotns regardg his place as a gay man the tradnally mascule, btal and often-remorsels enavor that is profsnal boxg. "I was aaid I uld be discrimated agast bee there is a lot of discrimatn agast the gay muny.

GAY BOXER ORLANDO CZ STGGLED WH G OUT

''Two weeks ago, the 31-year-old boxer beme the first active pro fighter to publicly clare that he was gay. In 2005, Ee Griffh, the Hall of Fame former world welterweight and middleweight champn, revealed his homosexualy three s after his fal 's story has generated world-wi media attentn for the ge tle ntenr and journeyman.

''Cz's publicly issued statement that he is a "proud gay man'' was a rare acknowledgement and unprecented among active pro athlet major sports. ''While Cz said his cisn to e out has been well received om fay and iends, pl the gay and lbian muni, he scribed a recent overt act of discrimatn that sadned him.

''Cz said he is unncerned about potential tnts om fans — or future opponents tryg to distract him wh homophobic, Cz's Friday opponent, said he don't re about his challenger's sexual preference.

BOXER EE GRIFFH OUT AS GAY

"When I fish boxg, '' he add, "I want people to remember me: 'Orlando Cz was gay — and he was a good boxer and a good guy. Image this -- a gay man beg one of the greatt profsnal boxers the history of the sport. Ee Griffh, a six-time world champn and charter member of the Internatnal Boxg Hall of Fame, is a homosexual.

” Griffh, 70, has led a turbulent life, wh his homosexualy beg a nstant backdrop.

ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER

He has basilly been out for years (he once said he wanted to be the marshal the New York gay rights para), but this book he discs publicly for the first time. In the new book, Griffh has this sad but te statement to make about his life as a gay man:.

“I have always been and always will be a proud gay man, ” he said a public announcement on the eveng of Oct. He says he has enuntered homophobia the boxg world, but he cl to elaborate on the form that the discrimatn took.

But while g out is a personal cisn, there are wir benefs to dog so, says Cyd Zeigler Jr., print of Outsports, the Web hub for the gay sports muny. “When gay athlet e out of the closet and straight athlet e out support of gay rights, those actns and those words have a reverberatg effect.

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

The eye-openg is particularly te for a sport like boxg, which Zeigler says is, along wh football, “probably the last place you would thk there would be an openly gay athlete. And stereotyp work both ways: media portrayals of gay people n often be domated by clichés that uld be knocked out by men like Orlando Cz.

Zeigler says that, as a kid, he thought he uldn’t possibly be gay bee he didn’t like “Broadway and Cher and Madonna.

” An athlete who was both tough and gay his public life would have been — as Cz hop to be — a good role mol. “There’s probably still this ia for other athlet that they don’t want to get beaten by a gay man, but gay people are everywhere. 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.

ORLANDO CZ BE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

" 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.

PHILLY BOXER WH 10 KIDS WHO WAS OUTED AFTER GAY PORN ROMP ADMS HE’S 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. " 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.

BOXER YAF MACK COM OUT AS BISEXUAL, APOLOGIZ TO BLACK GAY PORN STUD OVER CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED BEFORE FILMG

"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.

ORLANDO CZ, THEFIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER, OUT FIGHTG

I thk that is pretty rehg and Ee would be very and proud: Gay sportspeopleJason Colls Sce g out as gay, US basketball player has been unable to fd an NBA Rogers Former Leeds and Stevenage footballer who currently plays for LA Walsh and Helen Richardson GB Olympic hockey players who married Hysen First active footballer to e out sce Jt Fashanu. Featherweight boxer Orlando Cz has bee the first big-time active profsnal boxer to e out as gay. Endorsement als are lucrative, and for someone whose e om those als and wng fights, he has more to lose than many other gay pro athlet.

If Yaf Mack's gay porn saga were a fight, this would be the knockout former boxer is fally g clean and admtg why he performed a vio wh two other men last summer. "RELATED: Former boxer claims he was dgged for gay porn rompMack ially went public last month wh the far-fetched story of beg dgged prr to performg a heterosexual porn flick, only to disver later that he had performed a gay film. "RELATED: Former boxer adms he lied about beg dgged for gay porn filmOn Wednday, he dropped all pretense and admted he ncted the story--and later, lied about beg bisexual--to keep people, cludg the woman he was engaged to, om disverg the tth.

(ED GONSER/AP)Mack said his revelatn hasn't been well-received by some of his 10 children, pecially his 23-year-old SAM SMITH WANTS TO BE A FIGURE IN THE GAY COMMUNITY"She told me to kill myself, " he said. Throughout the history of the sport, as well as every other sport, there has been gay athlet. Wh boxg, this beg such a gladiator-que, mascule sport, ’s difficult to picture a gay boxer.

ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'

Many may have var opns on the matter and many believe a gay boxer is not threateng by any means. Comg off the heels of the Missouri Universy, fensive end, Michael Sam suatn, we generally do not see athlet open up about their homosexualy.

BOXG-ITALIAN BOXER TTA OUT AS GAY AFTER OLYMPIC SUCCS

On Augt 9th, 2012, Nila Adams also beme first openly Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr (LGBT) athlete to w an Olympic boxg Gold medal, after her w at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Former Olympian and current featherweight tle ntenr Orlando Cz, is an openly gay fighter. On October 4th, 2012, Cz beme the first boxer to e out as gay while still active profsnally.

ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'

Durg the weigh- prr to their third bout 1962, Benny Paret hurled homosexual sults towards Griffh.

THIS GAY BOXER FACED ATH TWICE, AND ME OUT SWGG ON THE OTHER SI

In 1992, Griffh was savagely beaten on a New York Cy street, after leavg a gay bar near the Port Authory B Termal.

He remaed the hospal for a few months after the asslt and to this day, ’s uncerta if the attack on Griffh was motivated by ignorant, homophobic attackers. What if Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao said they were homosexual or bisexual? A Pennsylvania boxer who claimed last week that he was dgged before he performed a gay porn film said Monday he had fabrited the story to ver up that he is bisexual.

ORLANDO CZ FIGHTS TO BEE BOXG’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

But the apology seemed to have been prompted by threats of legal actn agast the boxer ma by the gay porn stud, which reportedly paid him $4, 500 for his appearance the vio. My life was pletely stroyed once had been outed that I participated a gay film. Sign up to our ee sport newsletter for all the latt news on everythg om cyclg to boxgSign up to our ee sport email for all the latt newsA former Olympic boxer and one of the top-ranked fighters the world has ma history by beg the first openly gay man the sport's history.