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Contents:
- MART STARK ON ANISG WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS AND PLANS TO 'DISPT' DISCRIMATN
- ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
- CZ NEEDS TO BEE THE 1ST GAY WORLD BOXG CHAMPN TO PULL BOXG INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- FIRST-EVER WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIP PLANNED FOR 2023
- THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
MART STARK ON ANISG WORLD'S FIRST GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS AND PLANS TO 'DISPT' DISCRIMATN
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". * first gay boxing world champion *
"Homophobia sportsLast week, profsnal boxers Amir Khan and Kell Brook exchanged several homophobic remarks a pre-fight prs nference. "It's you who was on gay s w***g yourself off, " Brook told his boxg opponent, Amir Khan.
Mart Stark will reprent the World Gay Boxg Champnships this year's Mardi Gras para. (Supplied: Mart Stark)Mart Stark says fear of homophobia disurag LGBTQ+ muny members om experimentg wh the sport. "Many gay people are reluctant to jo boxg class due to fear of beg unweled, " Stark said.
"I was weled and accepted by the crowd as an openly gay male reprentg the flag and walkg out to Relax by Frankie Go to Hollywood — the most inic LGBTQ+ song om the '80s, " he said. However, Stark says there is still a limed number of gay and transgenr athlet petg at the profsnal level men's sports cludg boxg. To tackle the issue, he plans to lnch the first World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC) next year.
ORLANDO CZ: BOXER DREAMS OF BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY WORLD CHAMPN
Orlando Cz will create history by beg the first openly gay boxg world champn should he feat Terry Flanagan on Saturday. * first gay boxing world champion *
"The ma aim is to dispt homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and terphobia boxg and sport general, " he said.
" Boxg NSW, Boxg Atralia and other ternatnal boxg anisatns are backg the first World Gay Boxg Champnships. (Supplied: Mart Stark)The WGBC founr hop the fixtur n bee a grassroots playground for profsnal gay boxers and change the LGBTQ+ muny's perceptn of boxg.
CZ NEEDS TO BEE THE 1ST GAY WORLD BOXG CHAMPN TO PULL BOXG INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
The news that Puerto Rin boxer Orlando Cz has been granted a send chance to bee the sports first ever openly gay world champn is another brilliant opportuny for bat sports to break hyper-heterosexism taboos, add another tone for equaly, and to shake-up and amelrate a sport that is still [...] * first gay boxing world champion *
Will he be boxg's first openly gay champn? Cz aims to bee boxg's first openly gay world champn. Beme boxg's first openly gay, active fighter 2012.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * first gay boxing world champion *
Deeply embedd two worlds – boxg and Puerto Ri – that are found machismo, Cz has also bee a gay in to thoands. On Saturday, Cz has the chance to create history – should he beat Bra’s Terry Flanagan for the WBO lightweight tle, the 35-year-old will bee the first ever openly gay world champn. Boxg, like many other sports, is yet to fully open s arms to the ia of a gay athlete, somethg Cz has unsurprisgly experienced first-hand.
“I don’t re if they say, ‘Orlando Cz is gay. Wh so few openly gay, active profsnal athlet across all sports, Cz is aware what the rult of the fight will mean to those who look up to him.
“The support of the gay muny, Puerto Ri, New York and different natnali, is very important, ” he says.
FIRST-EVER WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIP PLANNED FOR 2023
* first gay boxing world champion *
In 2013, his chance to bee the first openly gay boxg champn me and went btal fashn.
Cz me out to his fay and a psychologist long before publicly announcg he was gay 2012. I don’t re that other people talk about me, sayg, ‘Orlando Cz is gay, Orlando is bad or bulls***.
THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
For many, boxg is sport’s ultimate show of masculy and Cz still regularly fds himself fightg the misnceptn that a man n’t be both gay and mascule. “Sometim one, two or three people say, ‘you’re gay, and you’re a boxer… wow.
I say, ‘I am gay, but I am a man like you. “I am gay and I am the first openly gay boxer, but this has been my reer for years.