Boxer Gays vs. Gay Boxers – The View om Insi and Outsi the Rop

Contents:

• ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
• BOXER GAYS VS. GAY BOXERS
• MELBOURNE GAY BARS
• THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS

ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

MELBOURNE (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Lyg sick hospal, Mart Stark was not only worried about his poor health - the gay boxer was also cshed by the news that boxg had been dropped om the 2022 Gay the 45-year-old Atralian cid to create another LGBT+ sports ftival to achieve his dream of petg on the world stage.

“I was llg myself the future world gay boxg champn, I was gog to go and w gold for Atralia, ” Stark told the Thomson Rters Foundatn a telephone terview. “I was my hospal bed, and I thought, ‘I n’t stop this journey I’ve started’ so I cid to create the World Gay Boxg Champnships. ”Homophobia sport is a global problem, wh fear of abive chants, threats, bullyg and physil asslt leadg many players to hi their a 2015 ternatnal study iated by Atralian gay gby groups, 80% of rponnts said they had wnsed or experienced homophobia sport and 75% said was not very safe to be an openly gay spectator at a sportg attus led to the foundg San Francis of the Gay Gam 1982.

BOXER GAYS VS. GAY BOXERS

Hong Kong is set to host the 2022 event, which is expected to attract some 15, 000 said he hop his 2023 champnship – to be held durg the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, when the cy will also host World Pri – will attract LGBT+ boxers om around the globe and enurage LGBT+ people to participate sport.

A growg number of high-profile athlet have e out recent years, cludg Brish Olympic gold-wng boxer Nila Adams, as public acceptance of LGBT+ people has remas difficult for high-profile men to e out sports that rerce genr stereotyp, like has a poor rerd, wh Brish middleweight Jam Hawley beg sacked after postg homophobic and transphobic ments onle last month, while Irish lightweight Conor McGregor was ptured on vio 2017 g a homophobic first boxer to e out while active profsnally was Puerto Rin featherweight Orlando Cz 2012, wh Amerin Patric Manuel beg the first transgenr boxer to w a profsnal fight the future, Stark said he hoped events like the World Gay Boxg Champnships would not be necsary bee LGBT+ people will be able to pete mastream petns whout facg homophobia or transphobia.

“I thk boxg will evolve to the extent that we won’t need (them) bee we will have ma such roads sport, ” he the meantime, he hop the LGBT+ and sports muni will rally around the World Gay Boxg Champnships. 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.

MELBOURNE GAY BARS

“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.

THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS

But as well as enuragg engagement wh the sweet science, Stark hop he n have an effect on stoppg homophobia and transphobia sport. Acrdg to one study, 80 percent of the more than 12, 000 participants om across the world have wnsed or experienced homophobia sports.