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April 12th, 2005
Queer, Social Justice

Fascinating story about Emile Griffth, a boxer, subject of the film Ring of Fire

The Shadow Boxer

Emile Griffith beat Benny (Kid) Paret to death in the ring after Paret called him queer. That was 43 years ago. He’s still struggling to come to grips with it. So are we

It was silent in the backseat of the car. The old boxer had just left the gay bar outside of which a gang of men had beaten him to the edge of death on a summer night 13 years ago. He couldn’t remember how or why it happened. He had given up trying.

The traffic light on Eighth Avenue turned red. His head turned toward the passenger window.

“Look!” he cried. “There I am!”

There he was, five-time world champion Emile Griffith, 12 inches from his nose, on a poster plastered across the side of a bus that had just stopped beside his window.

He stared at himself. It was him, wrapped in anguish and shadows, on a spring night 43 years ago when he beat a man who had called him a maricón — a faggot — to the edge of death … then beyond it.

[… continued at link above …]

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