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VELVET GLOV IS NEW YORK CY'S FIRST AND ONLY BOXG CLUB FOR GAY MEN

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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.

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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 men boxing *

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. “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.

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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. “The reason I set up the anizatn, I want [homophobia, transphobia, etc. 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?

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'"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.

THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS

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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.

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I thk every gay man has experienced that before, " says Garrett. Ash had prevly studied the Israeli self-fense martial art of Krav Maga as a way to fend himself om would-be homophob.

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Ash told Gay Star News:.

In a March 2019 personal blog post, Ash explaed why he had taken up boxg as a gay men:.

When Ash first me out, he says he felt like he didn’t f to the gay muny eher, but as he began boxg, he wrote, “I started sleepg better. Ash told Gay Star News that he has never experienced any homophobia the world of boxg.

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