Last year a two-day amateur boxing competition was held in Sydney, attracting participants and spectators from all over the country and the world. The setting, WorldPride; the event, the first World Gay Boxing Championships.
The competition brought together members of the LGBTQ+ community with allies and the country’s best judges – thanks to support from Boxing Australia and Boxing NSW – as well as boxing champions Gairy St Clair and Kate McLaren. It was the brainchild of Martin Stark, and the culmination of years of work to combat homophobia in the sport and create an international LGBTQ+ boxing competition, after the sport was cut from the Gay Games.
