A gay man's journey of disvery through martial arts - Outsports

Contents:

• A GAY MAN'S JOURNEY OF DISVERY THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS
• A WORLD MARTIAL ARTS CHAMPN STRS VISIBILY AS AN OUT GAY FIGHTER
• FIGHTG THE ODDS WH SHIHAN MICHELLE GAY
• GAY KARATE HAPPY HOUR: KICKS AND PUNCH AND SAKE, "OH MY!"

A GAY MAN'S JOURNEY OF DISVERY THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS

I'm also a gay man who holds black belts two forms of martial arts. Now I know you're not gay. "I mean I'm gay.

) Sce there is an obte ncept that all homosexuals crave sexual enunters wh any and all members of the same sex, and sce martial arts is a ntact sport, I wasn't sure how my martial arts peers would take or what they would thk.

For world jujutsu champn William Seth-Wenzel, his g out procs as an openly gay fighter clud havg his boyiend at meets cheerg him on. Seth-Wenzel is also proud to have won as an openly gay athlete, havg e out gradually the last two years. His terview wh Outsports, nducted over email and Instagram, is the first time he has talked publicly about beg gay.

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

“Dog martial arts and beg gay is que rare I gus, ” he said. “Not beg gay maybe, but beg out as gay is not very mon.

I don’t know anyone who is out and gay the sport. I know the feelg of beg secretly gay a macho-domated sport. Beg such a macho sport where domance is the goal ed some of his fellow petors to ially qutn whether Seth-Wenzel actually was gay.

FIGHTG THE ODDS WH SHIHAN MICHELLE GAY

“It was basilly like the other fighters wanted a nfirmatn om me if I was gay or not. They had obvly seen pictur of me and my boyiend on Instagram, but still they need to hear om me that I was gay. My nt was also gay and, therefore I knew that my fay would accept , but still felt very hard tellg them.

GAY KARATE HAPPY HOUR: KICKS AND PUNCH AND SAKE, "OH MY!"

Michelle Gay is not one of them.