Boxer Yaf Mack Hosts 'Comg Out' Party ... At Famed L.A. Gay Bar

Contents:

• ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
• EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
• BOXER YAF MACK HOSTS 'COMG OUT' PARTY ... AT FAMED L.A. GAY BAR
• PHILLY BOXER WH 10 KIDS WHO WAS OUTED AFTER GAY PORN ROMP ADMS HE’S GAY
• OPENLY GAY BOXER YAF MACK FIGHTS HOMOPHOBE
• BOXER YAF MACK COM OUT AS BISEXUAL, APOLOGIZ TO BLACK GAY PORN STUD OVER CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED BEFORE FILMG
• BOXER AND FATHER OF 10 SAYS HE END UP GAY PORN BEE HE WAS 'DGGED'
• KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

People have even bee famo bee of sex tap; however, the emergence of a gay sex tape featurg an Amerin profsnal boxer is totally new and uncharted Mack, a profsnal boxer out of Philalphia, has fought several former world champns, cludg Alejandro Berr, Glen Johnson and Carl Froch. He has also publicly stated that he is “bisexual”, and then later stated that he is “gay”.

EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75

He not only forc the public to reevaluate perceptns of what a gay man looks like and acts like, but he also unrm Black gay male stereotyp and simplistic notns of sexualy and masculy. We n learn a great al om the velopment of events that led to his own admissn that Mack is, fact gay, cludg the forc at work around Black masculy, homophobia and Black Male Image as a CommodyThere are enomic, terpersonal, and soc-historil fluenc around how Ain Amerin men learn to nceptualize their mascule inti. Historilly, Black gay athlet are not weled wh open arms and “g out” n be trimental to on reer, pecially wh spher (basketball, football, hip hop, etc) that are viscerally culturally ristant to alternative inty is important bee Yaf Mack has had to weigh the sts and rewards of g out for several years, which many people were affected, cludg his 10 children and fiancée.

There are very few posive exampl of openly gay Black male athlet or entertaers, pecially gay Black boxers. There is no blueprt for a Black gay athlete and the rare exampl that do exist do not offer any fort.

One’s inty acts as currency many s, where gay performers are urged to nceal their sexual inty bee n their reers or where productn pani e one’s inty to prof very problematic ways.

BOXER YAF MACK HOSTS 'COMG OUT' PARTY ... AT FAMED L.A. GAY BAR

Black men have long been forced to nceal their sexual orientatn bee homosexualy ran unter to the image of Black manhood and masculy. Consir Yaf Mack’s ial rponse to mors that he was gay. Sexual accs to women and prows signify that a Black man is, well, a man, which acts as a veil to protect Black men who may be gay om gay mors.

The dynamics nnot Importance of Agency In Comg Out Studi show that the aftermath of g out is posive for gay men and lbian women, allowg people to embrace their sexual orientatn, tablish muny, and be te to themselv. It is hard to believe that Mack thought this film would never see the light of day, but more importantly, if one is participatg a gay sex tape bee he/she is strapped for sh, speaks to the lack of agency around his abily to strategilly and safely e out. He won’t be nsired a hero and he will not get a page the history books bee race and sexual orientatn operate a matrix that works and looks very differently for Ain-Amerins, particularly gay Black men the arena of sports.

PHILLY BOXER WH 10 KIDS WHO WAS OUTED AFTER GAY PORN ROMP ADMS HE’S GAY

We have moved forward society, but we have not moved towards a more acceptg space for Black gay athlet by any stretch of the imagatn. This fact is not lost on Yaf Mack’s stggle to embrace who he is at a time when he is at the end of his reer as a boxer (retirg last year) Mack’s story is both utnary and spiratnal, pecially as he succsfully mov forward wh his life as a proud gay Black man. The forc of Black masculy, heterosexism and homophobia all work as terlockg systems of opprsn the se of Yaf Mack, ditg that we still have a very long road ahead of as we untangle the gridlock of race, class and genr.

He was gay and like all boxers, at all levels, he was judged on whether he uld fight and not on his sexual preferenc; the Pounr, who wore pk, was a nice guy but not much of a fighter and nobody held that agast Saturday Las Vegas, Orlando Cz, which is his real name, will bee the first openly gay boxer to w a world tle if he n overe the odds and beat Orlando Salido for the vant WBO featherweight tle.

OPENLY GAY BOXER YAF MACK FIGHTS HOMOPHOBE

Cz announced he was gay last year, never lost his promoter, never lost his rankg and never lost a sgle iend om si the ugly bs of boxg.

"Cz fought for Puerto Ri at the Sydney Olympics 2000 and has been a ge ntenr for a uple of years and gay for a lot longer.

"I'm a boxer first, I want to be a world champn and remembered that way and not as a gay boxer, " he the Neti, Christy Mart, another boxg pneer, said somethg siar about women the sport: "I fight for Christy Mart and not for women's rights to box. " Mart, who has sce survived a murr attempt when her hband shot and knifed her, is now retired and volved a gay relatnship. "Boxg n be a macho sport and I have heard some gay slurs, " says Cz.

BOXER YAF MACK COM OUT AS BISEXUAL, APOLOGIZ TO BLACK GAY PORN STUD OVER CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED BEFORE FILMG

"However, Cz, who is 32, is not a mpaigner for gay rights jt yet and he has polely refed all attempts to csa on behalf of other gay athlet, men like him stgglg to e to terms wh tellg the people they pete wh, or for, that they are gay. However, private he has obvly spoken to other boxers facg the same dilemma he did last has received a lot of media attentn this week (Getty) (Getty Imag)"Perhaps there are other gay boxers and perhaps they are too sred to say anythg, " Cz says. " Hopefully, there will not be a reverse wch-hunt boxg, like there is other sports, where people on the outsi bee fixated on outg more gay athlet; the people boxg simply don't re.

BOXER AND FATHER OF 10 SAYS HE END UP GAY PORN BEE HE WAS 'DGGED'

"Gay, so what? " All boxers world tle fights have to unrgo and pass a route HIV tt and plenty, none of whom said they were gay, have failed the has dited Saturday's fight to Ee Griffh, one of the greatt boxers history, who died this summer after admtg late his life that he had slept wh both men and women. He was om a time when homosexuals were not lled "gay" and he hated the word once was ed to scribe him when he fally end three s of speculatn.

KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER

The Cuban never revered and died a few days emerged later that Paret had lled Griffh a marin, the Spanish word for homosexual, and had touched him appropriately when the pair weighed for the fight; Paret was naked at the time, which is not unmon for a tle fight. There has always been a bate about whether Paret meant or was jt sayg to get unr Griffh's sk; Griffh told me that Paret had been ma to say , but that was heartfelt and meant, which is good enough for late great Ee Griffh me out after he retired (Getty) (Getty Imag)Griffh had stggled wh his sexualy throughout his reer and retirement and 1992 was left for ad after five thugs on a "fag-bashg" rampage attacked him wh baseball bats outsi a gay club New York.

"This fight is for Ee bee he never had the backg and support that I have had, " add Saturday Cz starts as a heavy unrdog agast former champn Salido but will still leave the rg as the first openly gay male boxer to fight for a world tle.