Meet the Brawny Bra Behd the World Gay Boxg Champnships

Contents:

• ALL ABOUTGAYBOXING
• BOXER GAYS VS. GAY BOXERS
• FROM RGSI, GAY MAN’S PLAY PACKS A PUNCH
• THE WORLD GAY BOXG CHAMPNSHIPS LOOK TO ‘DISPT’ HOMOPHOBIA SPORTS
• VELVET GLOV IS NEW YORK CY'S FIRST AND ONLY BOXG CLUB FOR GAY MEN

ALL ABOUTGAYBOXING

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Gilbert Baker tght himself to sew and began makg banners for gay and anti-war march. He created the rabow flag 1978 as a symbol of Gay Pri.

The flag ma s first appearance at San Francis’s Gay Pri Para 1978. Army om 1970 to 1972 and he was statned San Francis the early days of the gay rights movement.

BOXER GAYS VS. GAY BOXERS

Sce the dawn of the gay rights movement, a new overt means has been add. A profsed gay or bisexual man uld not possibly be a ‘real’ man. The issue is not whether Griffh was gay.

But, a gay man who box uld be lled a gay boxer, but the most important fact is when he is the rg agast his opponent he is a boxer. “You know, kid, when they learn you’re gay, they’re gog to want to kill you, ” said Mr.

Griggs began boxg eight years ago after nceivg the ia for a screenplay about a gay boxer. “Killer Queen” packs such an emotnal punch, fact, that has spired the creatn of a nonprof anizatn, the Empowerment Center for Youth, that specializ trag young gay boxers.

FROM RGSI, GAY MAN’S PLAY PACKS A PUNCH

“The play tertwed wh a strong belief I had that boxg n help disempowered gay youth to make an rmed cisn about how to handle themselv, ” said Mr.

Onello’s meo) about beg gay the hyper-heteronormative world of play was first performed at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory January 2010; this versn Mr. “I cid to wre a play that would explore the ia of an out gay boxer as a means of lookg at my own feelgs of aquacy as a kid and enurage young gays to ga self-teem. ”“Killer Queen” tells an archetypal story about the stggl of a young gay man who disvers boxg and, wh the help of a dited ach, a kdly uncle battlg AIDS and the mic of the rock band Queen, over homophobia — and his personal mons — to turn pro.

“When I first started boxg, the gyms I went to were extremely homophobic, ” Mr. Onello, who is straight and did not re that he is gay. Onello and his lleagu to tra many more gay youths for the Onello and Mr.

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

Wh gay teenagers beg up to four tim as likely to attempt suici as straight teenagers, acrdg to The Trevor Project, a suici preventn hot le for gay youth, fdg ways to foster a sense of well-beg and safety has bee urgent.

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

“Gay youth were takg their liv bee they were beg bullied school. ” The macho sport of boxg has not attracted many openly gay participants. Mark Itell, a boxer based Indiana, and the Brish boxer Charl Jon, whose Pk Pounr nickname serv as the spiratn for Pa “Killer Queen, ” are among the few high-profile amatr boxers who publicly intify as gay.