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- VELVET GLOV IS NEW YORK CY'S FIRST AND ONLY BOXG CLUB FOR GAY MEN
- GAY SPORTS BAR
- HELL’S KCHEN WEL OLD FAVOR — GAY BARS BOXERS AND 9TH AVENUE SALOON ARE COMG BACK
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
- THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
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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.
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“We’re a new ownership team, but we’re not tryg to revent the wheel, ” said -owner Tim De Iturriaga, who has prevly n popular gay clubs like the Adonis Lounge Midtown East.
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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 Square.Today'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. Although boxg has long attracted eccentrics, dandi, and romantics, the sport remas elive for gay men.The 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. I feel like 's so hard to jt be iends wh gay men."Christopher Davis, 49, a retired Broadway dancer and current producer for the Broadway Car program Dancers Rpondg to AIDS, has been a Velveteer sce Day 1.