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It’s Fight Club, But ‘Gay’

A local MMA gym in Bushwick is offering free training clincs for aspiring LGBTQ fighters. They're calling it 'Gay Fight Club'

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It’s Fight Club, But ‘Gay’

A local MMA gym in Bushwick is offering free training clincs for aspiring LGBTQ fighters. They're calling it 'Gay Fight Club'

It’s Fight Club, But ‘Gay’

Spaces like boxing and mixed martial arts gyms haven’t always, historically, been the most hospitable to people in the LGBTQ community but Red Planet MMA, over on Broadway in Bushwick, has made itself especially open to prospective customers regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

In 2016, the gym’s head coach Mario Marin started getting petitioned by several of the gay fighters at the gym to start dedicating a space at the gym for LGBTQ…

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