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
Contents:
- ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
- PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER
- ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
- OPENLY GAY BOXER YAF MACK FIGHTS HOMOPHOBE
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. * openly gay boxers *
Will he be boxg's first openly gay champn? Cz aims to bee boxg's first openly gay world champn. 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.
PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER
* openly gay boxers *
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. 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.
ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
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***. 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.
OPENLY GAY BOXER YAF MACK FIGHTS HOMOPHOBE
I say, ‘I am gay, but I am a man like you. “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.