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Contents:

• ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER
• ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS
• WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXER? CZ OUT AND PROUD
• GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH
• PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER
• ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
• BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER WANTS TO FIGHT TER TROLLS WHO JUDGE HIM ONLEMIKE TURNER SAYS HE'S KEEN TO GET BACK THE RG AFTER WNG HIS MOST RECENT FIGHT - AND WANTS TO TAKE ON THE TROLLSWALONLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYSTEPHANIE WAREHAMNETWORK CONTENT EDOR10:13, 7 SEP 2022UPDATED11:53, 16 SEP 2022BOOKMARKMIKE TURNER HAS ALREADY UNRGONE ONE OF THE BIGGT OPPORTUNI OF HIS LIFE SO FAR WHEN HE PETED AT THE MR GAY ENGLAND PETN AT ALNWICK CASTLE ON AUGT 20 (IMAGE: ADAM HUGH/SWNS)KEEP UP TO DATE WH THE LATT STORI WH OUR WALONLE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 KEEP UP TO DATE WH THE LATT STORI WH OUR WALONLE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

ORLANDO CZ COM OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL BOXER

Cz has e out as the first openly gay active profsnal boxer the sport’s history. “I have always been and always will be a proud gay man, ” he said a public announcement on the eveng of Oct. (PHOTOS: A Visual History of the Gay-Rights Movement).

He says he has enuntered homophobia the boxg world, but he cl to elaborate on the form that the discrimatn took. (MORE: Olympic Homophobia: Why Are There So Few Openly Gay Athlet? But while g out is a personal cisn, there are wir benefs to dog so, says Cyd Zeigler Jr., print of Outsports, the Web hub for the gay sports muny.

ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

“When gay athlet e out of the closet and straight athlet e out support of gay rights, those actns and those words have a reverberatg effect. The eye-openg is particularly te for a sport like boxg, which Zeigler says is, along wh football, “probably the last place you would thk there would be an openly gay athlete.

WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXER? CZ OUT AND PROUD

And stereotyp work both ways: media portrayals of gay people n often be domated by clichés that uld be knocked out by men like Orlando Cz. Zeigler says that, as a kid, he thought he uldn’t possibly be gay bee he didn’t like “Broadway and Cher and Madonna. ” An athlete who was both tough and gay his public life would have been — as Cz hop to be — a good role mol.

GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH

“There’s probably still this ia for other athlet that they don’t want to get beaten by a gay man, but gay people are everywhere. 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. 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.

PUERTO RIN ORLANDO CZ IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER

"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. "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.

ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN

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. "Gay, so what?

BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY BOXER WANTS TO FIGHT TER TROLLS WHO JUDGE HIM ONLEMIKE TURNER SAYS HE'S KEEN TO GET BACK THE RG AFTER WNG HIS MOST RECENT FIGHT - AND WANTS TO TAKE ON THE TROLLSWALONLEBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYSTEPHANIE WAREHAMNETWORK CONTENT EDOR10:13, 7 SEP 2022UPDATED11:53, 16 SEP 2022BOOKMARKMIKE TURNER HAS ALREADY UNRGONE ONE OF THE BIGGT OPPORTUNI OF HIS LIFE SO FAR WHEN HE PETED AT THE MR GAY ENGLAND PETN AT ALNWICK CASTLE ON AUGT 20 (IMAGE: ADAM HUGH/SWNS)KEEP UP TO DATE WH THE LATT STORI WH OUR WALONLE NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 KEEP UP TO DATE WH THE LATT STORI WH OUR WALONLE NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

" 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. 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. He proposed to Manuel on Facebook earlier this year and, has to be said, if he was thkg of makg the transn to gay fighter low-key, then planng a same-sex marriage was a bold move.