Pro boxer Orlando Cruz says he came out because “I want respect. That’s it. It’s my decision, it’s my life.”
The out athlete will have a busy fall. On October 12 he’ll fight against Mexico’s Orlando Salido for the World Boxing Organization’s featherweight title and the 32-year-old Puerto Rico native told New York Daily News that he intends to marry his longtime boyfriend José Manuel in Manhattan this December. (Same-sex marriage isn’t yet legal in either Puerto Rico or Florida, where Cruz also resides.)
Cruz said he typically doesn’t talk about his relationships, “but José Manuel is a good guy, a good friend, a good boyfriend and after the fight I will get married, maybe in December, here in New York.”
andy_d
Best of luck (and skill) in the first endeavor and hoping for much love and happiness with the marriage.
Miss Understood
Mi novio!
Nyruinz
I bet you the homophobes will think twice before laying hands on him
MMDD
I’d just like to go on record as saying he’s HOT as FUCK!!!!!!
Kangol
Este muchachón me encanta.
More of him, please.