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Contents:
- VELVET GLOV IS NEW YORK CY'S FIRST AND ONLY BOXG CLUB FOR GAY MEN
- ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
- 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
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
VELVET GLOV IS NEW YORK CY'S FIRST AND ONLY BOXG CLUB FOR GAY MEN
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Found roughly a year and a half ago, Velvet Glov Gentleman's Boxg is the first and only boxg club New York Cy that ters specifilly to gay men.
""[I asked myself, ] 'Why aren't gay guys dog this? '"Though 2013 Orlando Cz beme the first profsnal fighter to e out while still active the sport—and gay athlet like Michael Sam and Jason Colls have started to break down barriers football and basketball, rpectively—boxg has ed had s bouts wh homophobia over the years. Floyd Mayweather, who recently battled Manny Pacquiao the "fight of the century" on May 2, has ed homophobic slurs the past.
""It do still feel like there's a taboo the boxg world for sure wh gay men, " says some, part of the draw of Velvet Glov is to actively work agast the taboos, chippg away at stereotyp ncerng what sports gay men n and nnot excel Dtsch, a mician livg Harlem, first me to Velvet Glov on a date. I thk every gay man has experienced that before, " says Garrett. By virtue of one of his star pupils, Francis Liuzzi, he is the unwtg man behd the curta of New York's first all-gay boxg class, Velvet Glov Gentleman's Boxg, a bimonthly Saturday morng class at the health club Clay, a boutique pamper palace near Manhattan's Unn 's ty pack of openly gay profsnal athlet clus one boxer, Orlando Cz, a recent ntenr for a featherweight world champnship who married his hband last year Central Park.
ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS
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Although boxg has long attracted eccentrics, dandi, and romantics, the sport remas elive for gay Gay Gam, the ternatnal summer sportg event that draws nearly 10, 000 athlet to pete 36 events every four years, clud petive boxg only once, s gural event 1982. "I love that I'm beg forced to be wh gay men, which I wouldn't normally do.
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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. * gay boxing club *
""Teachg gay guys is really no different than teachg straight guys, except the gay guys tend to show up better physil ndn, " Liuzzi says. Well before LGBT athlet were media darlgs, one of the most famo openly gay pros was a champn boxer and Hall of Fame ductee.
For anyone to not thk he was gay is absurd, " says Williamson Henrson, Griffh's boyiend throughout the 1970s. He and Henrson met at the Stonewall Inn the 1960s and together participated the uprisg at the bar on June 28, 1969, the event that started the morn gay rights movement.
He marched wh the SVA New York Cy's Gay Pri para 2007. That night he unleashed a strg of fatal blows on his opponent, Benny Paret, who tnted him wh a gay slur durg the weigh-.
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. * gay boxing club *
"His whole fay knew he was gay, " Henrson says.
He went out to the gay clubs more than I ever did.
He said he knew was impossible the early 1960s for an athlete an ultramacho sport like boxg to say, 'Oh, yeah, I'm gay. ' "Griffh would never see the extraordary amount of money now flowg to gay athlet.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
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". * gay boxing club *
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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.
The world’s first LGBTQ+ boxg tournament is set to be staged Sydney after the natn’s erng body threw s support behd the Atralia has endorsed efforts by World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC), a not-for-prof found by lol boxer Mart Stark to build clivy and bat homophobia and transphobia the sport, to lnch the first such LGBTQ+-iendly, who has lived wh Addison’s disease sce 2006, took up boxg two years ago while learng self-fence at his lol martial arts centre. He planned to pete at the 2022 Gay Gam but, when boxg was taken off the list, sought to fill the gap himself by lnchg an LGBTQ+ tournament, followg the steps of other non-profsnal gay sports.
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We have hosted the Gay Gam, the Sydney Convicts have won the Bgham Cup (a global LGBTQ+ gby unn tournament) several tim, and we’ve hosted the Bgham Cup. Atralia’s amatr gay boxg muny is the start-up stage.
”Homophobia sport is still a global a 2015 study, iated by the Bgham Cup and a aln of other sportg anisatns, 80% of rponnts said they had wnsed or experienced homophobia sport and 75% believed an openly gay person would not be safe as a spectator at a sportg event. Rearch released Augt found the e of homophobic language is drastilly rced at sportg clubs which engage pri gam, provg diversy-themed events n have a posive sanctng the champnships, Boxg Atralia pledged a statement to “assist wh the velopment of the boxg program, givg nsiratn to people new to boxg and experienced boxers enablg straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, genr diverse, tersex and non-bary people to safely participate”.
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.