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Contents:

• OPENLY GAY JIU-JSU PRACTNER FDS SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY
• THREAD: BRAZIIAN JIU JSU IS GAY
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY GUY BJJ PRACTNER!
• FIRST OPENLY GAY UPLE BRAZILIAN JIU-JSU LNCH BOYNTON BEACH SCHOOL, URG CHANGE SPORT
• A WORLD MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPN STRS VISIBILY AS AN OUT GAY FIGHTER
• EDDIE BRAVO: MMA IS ‘STILL IN J TIM’ WH GAY MEN
• STRADDLG THE REDLE: THE MIC AND JIU JSU OF TY GAY
• KEEP JIUJITSU GAY TYE DYE T-SHIRT
• THE BATE: HOW GAY IS MMA?

OPENLY GAY JIU-JSU PRACTNER FDS SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY

Nicholas “Rh” Rotas is one of the few openly gay martial artists the Uned Stat. Not a sgle man on the team r that they’re sparrg and trag wh a gay man, and Rotas tak pri that fact.

THREAD: BRAZIIAN JIU JSU IS GAY

“It sadns me that many gay people may not ever experience the amazg support and skill offered by the sports bee of fear: fear that they won’t be accepted, or that they might get kicked out or shunned for beg who they are.

There is a dishearteng storyof a man who was kicked out of his gym after beg outed South Carola a few years back, and I thk that reputatn has stuck among the gay muny spe of clear progrs over the years. “At the end of the day, to them I’m jt Rh: their teammate, iend and I jt happen to be gay.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY GUY BJJ PRACTNER!

An openly gay martial artist fdg support group fellow fighters is an credible velopment. Not all sports are so acmodatg to gay athlet, though.

FIRST OPENLY GAY UPLE BRAZILIAN JIU-JSU LNCH BOYNTON BEACH SCHOOL, URG CHANGE SPORT

Today I want to highlight a nversatn that I had recently wh a Brazilian female iend about the homophobia that is prent Brazil. After a general nversatn, we me to the subject of homosexualy sports and pecially Jiu-Jsu.

A WORLD MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPN STRS VISIBILY AS AN OUT GAY FIGHTER

I remember when travelg to Brazil, I was told that Jiu-Jsu ‘Pboys’ would beat up gays and transvt, bee they were ‘disgtg’ (I’ll spare you the words). When I ask a practner, if they would md rollg wh a gay person?

As if the fact that sce the person was gay, they would take advantage of the suatn … Is that what also happens when a man rolls wh a woman?

EDDIE BRAVO: MMA IS ‘STILL IN J TIM’ WH GAY MEN

Knowg that many gays do not make their g out and even ls the ultra macho world of bat sports, do you hontly thk that a guy or girl, would e to BJJ jt to ‘p a feel’ of a trag partner? A few years back, I was talkg wh a gay iend, who trag Judo. It is te that the dojo, is not a nightclub, is not Tr, ’s still very rare that there have to have people flirtg on the mats Wether be men or women, straight or gay when you’re at the amy, your goal should be to advance and evolve.

If tomorrow, a iend that you tra wh for years, told you they were gay, what would you?

STRADDLG THE REDLE: THE MIC AND JIU JSU OF TY GAY

Still, you have to face , there are gay BJJ practners, you have surely e across some, you may have even rolled wh them.

KEEP JIUJITSU GAY TYE DYE T-SHIRT

Also, n’t gays also be warrrs? I'm Gay and do BJJ.

I am gay, a mted monogamo relatnship wh another man, and have been practisg brazilian jiujsu at a lol gym for jt over two years now (not too far off blue belt, if I traed more regularly, maybe I'd already have one, who knows).

On other webs dited to jiujsu and grapplg arts, there is fely a noted stigma agast homosexual mal practisg jiujsu on the basis that eher they're dog for sexual reasons and tryg to "get off" om , or the basis that if a gay man rolls wh them class, they'll all sudnly ntract HIV. It's rare to hear a nversatn about gay people om the people the gym, but sometim DOES happen, and mak me very glad that I have kept my classmat the dark about my sexualy (I am very much "out" every other aspect of my life). If you knew I was gay, and YOUR amy, would you roll wh me?

THE BATE: HOW GAY IS MMA?

I'm cur about the views based not jt on the strange fear of gay men rryg around fe STDs, but also potentially on the ia that a sgle gay man would be a "sexual threat").