Gay boxer Mart Stark faced ath twice, and survived - Outsports

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Stark has gone om ICU beds to the squared circle. Now, he’s startg the World Gay Boxg Champnships.

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

Mart Stark is the self-proclaimed "gay boxg champn" and he's creatg a boxg anizatn and champnship for like-md fightg queers. * gay boxing stories *

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.

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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.

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

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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.

ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

Guys whose favore past-time is strollg around boxers, or boxer shorts. Strollg around boxers has a way of makg a fellow 'look gay', hence the term. Urban Dictnary Gilbert Baker tght himself to sew and began makg banners for gay and anti-war march. He created the rabow flag 1978 as a symbol of Gay Pri. … * gay boxing stories *

Mart Stark only took up boxg a few years ago, but he's already clared himself a gay boxg champn and is anizg the World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC), acrdg to separate terviews wh OutSports and Your Livg Brand Live Show. Homophobia exists sport, but sometim we have to dispt that by beg part of the sport.

"I had one guy om Texas sayg I was jectg the gay genr sport by beg more articulate, " he told Barker of Your Livg Brand Live Show.

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