Posted on Apr 11, 2023
True story of a bisexual boxer who killed his rival in the ring heads to the Met Opera
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The “opera in jazz,” as Blanchard describes it, is based on the extraordinary life of the late bisexual, Hall of Fame boxer Emile Griffith, who tragically beat Benny “Kid” Paret so badly in the ring in 1962 that Paret died days later.
True story of a bisexual boxer who killed his rival in the ring heads to the Met Opera
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Boxing
American History
LGBTQ+
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I moved to St Thomas in 1959 just as Griffith was hitting his stride. Griffith wasn’t homosexual, he was bisexual and so stated. St Thomas had a very machismo culture. Homosexuals were called anti men. I don’t think Paret was homophobic as much as he wanted to rattle Griffith. Griffith’s sexual preferences were kept quite. I didn’t hear much about it until decades later. If people on St Thomas knew of Griffith’s sexual proclivities they would have dropped him.
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