Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY UPLE BRAZILIAN JIU-JSU LNCH BOYNTON BEACH SCHOOL, URG CHANGE SPORT
- OPENLY GAY JIU-JSU PRACTNER FDS SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY
- AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY GUY BJJ PRACTNER!
FIRST OPENLY GAY UPLE BRAZILIAN JIU-JSU LNCH BOYNTON BEACH SCHOOL, URG CHANGE SPORT
A survey nducted 2019 by the Homosexual Group of Bahia, Brazil showed that, last year, Brazil rerd 329 aths om homotransphobia. *LGBT: Abbreviatn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr. And as the first openly gay married athlet the sport, the black belt stctors say their martial arts school serv as an athletic haven for women and the LGBTQ+ is mted to providg the tsted news and lol reportg you rely on.
And gog public as part of the first openly gay married uple had exposed even more difficulty for the athlet. “And the guy, he me to me and he said 'I didn't know the muny was so homophobic, ’ Vieira said. '"And I said, ‘yeah, that's that's how they the muny is, you know, so beg a woman and gay this sport is not easy.
”Janis said as a gay woman, Aviv Jiu Jsu school Boynton Beach giv her "a sense of eedom" she hadn’t felt other schools before.
OPENLY GAY JIU-JSU PRACTNER FDS SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY
Vieira said raisg the profile of women and gay people the sport is a battle they’re fightg together on and off the mat. Vieira said the openg of Aviv Jiu-Jsu is a huge step toward creatg more female athlet the sport bee seeg champns actn is a blueprt, a template of sorts, for aspirg female and gay before the uple met at a trials petn Brazil, Alzuguir was a huge spiratn for her now-wife, Vieira.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY GUY BJJ PRACTNER!
“And I knew she was gay and I was like ’Wow, n be me.
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).