Ltle did Mart Stark know, the sport he once nsired "barbaric" would later change his life. The 47-year-old wants to e the world's first gay boxg champnships "to dispt homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and terphobia boxg and sport general".
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- THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
- MART STARK ON ANISG WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS AND PLANS TO 'DISPT' DISCRIMATN
- ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
Wele to World Gay Boxg Champnship, WGBC, an clive anisatn who works closely wh our alli to dispt homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and terphobia boxg and sports general. * world gay boxing championships *
We dispt homophobia, transphobia and hatred through creasg LGBTQIA+ cln and participatn. There will be Atralian and ternatnal boxers petg the over five INTERVIEWWGBC CEO, Mart Stark, speaks to CNN on disptg homophobia, transphobia and hatred. 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.
MART STARK ON ANISG WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS AND PLANS TO 'DISPT' DISCRIMATN
Founr Mart Stark plans to hold the first World Gay Boxg Champnships Sydney, Atralia 2023 wh a number of LGBTQ fight nights the lead up. * world gay boxing championships *
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.
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.
“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. But as well as enuragg engagement wh the sweet science, Stark hop he n have an effect on stoppg homophobia and transphobia sport.
ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
Acrdg to one study, 80 percent of the more than 12, 000 participants om across the world have wnsed or experienced homophobia sports.
The study also found that 78 percent of the participants believed that an openly gay person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sportg event. “The reason I set up the anizatn, I want [homophobia, transphobia, etc. Now, Stark is an avid amatr boxer and the bras behd the newly created World Gay Boxg Champnships.
The World Gay Boxg Champnships event aims to crease LGBTQ participatn the sport through the tular event and a seri of satelle activi cludg LGBTQ fight nights.