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ATRALIAN FIGHTS HOMOPHOBIA SPORT WH WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

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. 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.

ATRALIA TO HOST 2023 WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS

“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. 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.

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