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ORLANDO CZ: THE GAY BOXER WHO IS BREAKG BARRIERS

Puerto Rin n make history by beg the first openly gay world champn on Saturday. He tells Steve Bunce about g out the macho world of boxg * gay boxer *

Through his journey boxg, Stark has e to anize the World Gay Boxg Champnships (WGBC), the world’s first LGBTQI+ boxg tournament, which will be held Sydney 2023. As well as troducg the sport to a whole new dience, Stark hop that the WGBC n “dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport.

“And I thk that’s where my whole spir of clivy om – bee of what other people have achieved and for me, my anizatn, we’re very much around the grassroots and amatr level, but we want to dispt homophobia, transphobia, hatred sport. He remembers llg himself “the future world gay boxg champn” as a joke. He did have dreams of boxg at the 2022 Gay Gam, but the sport was elimated om the upg gam – postponed until 2023 bee of the ronavis panmic.

“There have been very few out profsnal gay male boxers who have won major champnships, ” he explaed.

OPENLY GAY BOXER YAF MACK FIGHTS HOMOPHOBE

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Like the Bgham Cup – a biennial, ternatnal, non-profsnal, gay gby unn tournament – he hop that the WGBC n enurage young members of the LGBTQI+ muny wh an tert boxg to try the sport. But as well as enuragg engagement wh the sweet science, Stark hop he n have an effect on stoppg homophobia and transphobia sport.

Acrdg to one study, 80 percent of the more than 12, 000 participants om across the world have wnsed or experienced homophobia sports. The study also found that 78 percent of the participants believed that an openly gay person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sportg event. “The reason I set up the anizatn, I want [homophobia, transphobia, etc.

WATCH: A YOUNG GAY BOXER FIGHTS FOR HIS FUTURE THIS MOVG QUEER SPORTS DRAMA

The fight for equal rights turned physil a Philalphia barber shop earlier this week when openly gay boxer Yaf Mack cid to stand up to a man who had been attackg him onle. * gay boxer *

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.

KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER

Gay boxer Anthony Ash proposed to his boyiend the rg to the light of cheerg fans. * 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.

GAY BOXER PROPOS TO BOYIEND AFTER WNG HIS FIRST MATCH

Stark has gone om ICU beds to the squared circle. Now, he’s startg the World Gay Boxg Champnships. * gay boxer *

"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.

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?

EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75

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" 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.

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"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.

ORLANDO CZ FIGHTS TO BEE BOXG’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHAMPN

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. Cz was also a first-year ductee to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame Chigo this summer, alongsi Greg Louganis and Marta n also really fight and the thls bs of boxg, a sport that has not really changed 150 years, that is all that matters; mak no difference if you are black, whe, gay, straight, male, female, nice, unpleasant, Christian, Mlim, ugly or handsome, as long as you have guts and n have a fight. I thk that is pretty rehg and Ee would be very and proud: Gay sportspeopleJason Colls Sce g out as gay, US basketball player has been unable to fd an NBA Rogers Former Leeds and Stevenage footballer who currently plays for LA Walsh and Helen Richardson GB Olympic hockey players who married Hysen First active footballer to e out sce Jt Fashanu.

You'll fd the tradnal gay pri rabow, shown heathered shas or an ombre prt of the Skull & Bon logo agast a black background. Shockg moment openly gay boxer Yaf Mack nonts man makg homophobic ments and beats him bloody the middle of a barber shopYaf Mack beat Hector Echevarria after the man repeatedly ma homophobic ments about the openly gay boxer onleMack nonted Hector at the L A Clippers barber shop Philalphia on Saturday night, htg him first while his head was a skHe then pummeled Hector wh punch until he was werg on the ground and his face bloodySome close to Hector are sayg onle that he broke his ankle the fight, but that has not been nfirmed Hector ma his social media acunts private, but did wre after the fight he would rather have that on film than gettg a 'd*** up my a**' Mack was a newly engaged father of ten when he me out as gay 2015 after beg spotted an same-sex adult film Published: 01:40 BST, 21 Febary 2017 | Updated: 13:33 BST, 21 Febary 2017. The fight for equal rights turned physil a Philalphia barber shop earlier this week when openly gay boxer Yaf Mack cid to stand up to a man who had been attackg him of the cint, which occurred at the LA Clippers barber shop, shows Mack swgg at a man named Hector Echevarria who had been reportedly been postg ments about him which were rogatory and is seen lyg on the ground and werg for ver, than at one pot attemptg to stand up, which Mack, 37, reacts to by sluggg him the face and sendg him back to the the end of the fight, which lasted approximately 30 sends, Mack grabs a jar full of barber's tools and smash them on Hector's head.

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