Gay mma fighter

Being different is always hard but as a gay male fighter he likely faced much more adversity than his female counterparts and deserves credit for his bravery. The MMA community is no different and the LGBT community representatives can be found among fighters.

13 UFC Fighters Who : Molina made the announcement Friday in a lengthy Twitter post in response to an intimate video of him being stolen and leaked online

From male and female gay UFC fighters to encouraging closet members to reveal their identity to the world, the MMA community embraces Pride month in a spectacular manner. The LGBT community is a loose group of people with various sex orientations united by a culture and cause.

Continue reading. Those who disapprove are a dying breed too and the more openly gay fighters who come out the easier it will be for everyone else. Its members are within other groups, subcultures, and societies. Shad Smith, while never having competed in the UFC, deserves some credit which is why he is ranked so high on this list.

She was a contestant on TUF 20 where she made it to the quarter finals. Go to mobile version. Plenty of UFC fighters are a part of the spectrum and here is a handful of them. George Caldwell. Being an openly gay athlete in a sport like MMA takes a lot of courage to say the least.

She won the title when she defeated Miesha Tate is blistering fashion on the biggest stage possible in the main event at UFC Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive. Jessica Andrade used to compete at bantamweight in the UFC but has recently made the move down to strawweight where she has found new life for her career.

Talk about making a mark. Type your email…. In MMA, Pride Month is very much celebrated.

AllUFC. Giancarlo Aulino. Andrade made history in her fight with Liz Carmouche by having the first match in UFC history between two openly gay fighters. Though she came up short in that fight she is currently ranked in the top ten in her weight class. Feb 4, Mike Pendleton.

Those select few are few and far between however, and shouldn’t prevent others from. Though the vast majority of the MMA community is completely accepting, such as UFC President Dana White who has voiced his support of LGBT fighters multiple times, some are not.

6 gay MMA fighters breaking stereotypesBeing an openly gay athlete in a sport like MMA takes a lot of courage to say the least. Not only is Liz Carmouche is the first openly lesbian fighter in the UFC as well as the first one to fight for the title, she also took part in the first ever female UFC fight in her title bout against Ronda Rousey.

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