Orlando Cz will create history by beg the first openly gay boxg world champn should he feat Terry Flanagan on Saturday.
Contents:
- ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'
- ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
- ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
- PUERTO RIN BOXER ORLANDO CZ ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
- PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER
- ORLANDO CZ, EL PRIMER BOXEADOR ABIERTAMENTE GAY QUE PODRíA RONARSE MPEóN MUNDIAL
- ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER
- ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'
- BOXER ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'
- ORLANDO CZ BE BOXG'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN
ORLANDO CZ: 'I'M GAY, BUT I'M ALSO A BOXER. THIS IS MY TIME'
Donald McRae go behd the scen Buffalo as Orlando Cz, boxg's first openly gay fighter, prepar for his reer-fg world tle bout * orlando cruz gay *
"There are only four gay bars Buffalo, " Cz said, swchg om Spanish to English, "and they're not so excg.
"Cz lghed bee, a year after g out as boxg's first publicly gay fighter, he uld afford to be open.
The ia of a gay boxer, which he troduced so lmly last October, has been accepted.
ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
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 * orlando cruz gay *
Yet his dreamier notn – of beg the world's first gay world champn – would brg Cz the money and rpect he has long, or Orlando, as De León lls his 32-year-old fighter, sed when I disappeared to the traer's kchen soon after we arrived.
ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
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He is the same age as Cz but has had 53 fights – 30 more than the Puerto Rin whose rerd of 20 ws, a draw and two feats was shadowed by a ght battle over his took years for Cz to fd the urage to make history as a gay fighter. They wonr if a gay man n w a world tle. He sks to a chair, the ms of boxg sho and bags strewn around him, remblg a grty old fighter rather than a gay ns down his sunken face like tears.
PUERTO RIN BOXER ORLANDO CZ ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
The Puerto Rin, who beme the first boxer to clare publicly that he was gay, tells Donald McRae of his long and trmatic stggle agast fear and prejudice * orlando cruz gay *
Last October, durg his first newspaper terview as a gay fighter, Cz told me how he ed to cry wh his mother, Domga.
PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER
Orlando Cz has been happily retired sce 2018, but 11 years after g out, is still the only openly gay man boxg. * orlando cruz gay *
He even impli that Salido, as a Mexin, might be troubled by facg a gay fighter.
He will have his md that he's fightg a homosexual for the world tle. "Is he suggtg Salido might be homophobic? "He's profsnal wh me but Mexins often have somethg homophobic them.
ORLANDO CZ, EL PRIMER BOXEADOR ABIERTAMENTE GAY QUE PODRíA RONARSE MPEóN MUNDIAL
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He won't want to lose to a gay man. He will want to make a statement bee I'm gay.
ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER
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Griffh fought more world champnship rounds than any other fighter, even Sugar Ray Robson and Muhammad Ali, and he was gay. It was an early troductn, for me, to the urage and cency of some boxg plan had been that I would take Cz to meet Griffh – even if severe mentia had ed the former champn – so there would be a poignant enunter between boxg's only openly gay fighters.
ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'
"I'm fightg for my fay, my traer, my team, everyone who wrote to me around the world sce I me out, as well as the lbian-gay-bi-transgenr muny, " Cz says.
And he was gay. "The traer remembers Cz beatg up another fighter who had tnted him a few years ago for beg gay. A uple of my s are gay or lbian.
He said: 'Hey, do what you gotta do, you fuckg gay...
BOXER ORLANDO CZ A 'PROUD GAY MAN'
A fuckg gay beatg you up? I'm a gay man – and a fighter.
"Marriage between gay men is banned Puerto Ri, as many stat of Ameri, and so their stggle is not over.
ORLANDO CZ BE BOXG'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN
Cz also rells the homophobic murr of a close iend, a transvte, San Juan. "I would love to have kids, " he says and José will have to marry New York and try to adopt children away om Puerto Ri where, aga, the notn of gay parents is illegal. "It's better I go to church than a gay bar, " he says as we walk to St Joseph's where De León's 11-year-old son, Angel, is an altar boy.