Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Kickboxing, 1998. Thailand is well-known for its “lady boys,” but when one of them starts beating bigger men in the ...

Nong Toom, Thailand's most famous -- and only -- transgender kickboxing champion, swept into a Los Angeles restaurant recently wearing high- heeled boots, tight jeans and a form-fitting beige and pink ...

Nong Toom prances around the ring waiting to land another punch or kick on her male opponent as her black, glossy hair, pulled back in a pony-tail, swings to and fro. Despite the detached look on her ...

“Beautiful Boxer” may sound like the alternate title to “Million Dollar Baby,” but the fighter of the title happens to be a man. At least he starts out that way. This polished but not always ...

As “Beautiful Boxer” opens, director Ekachai Uekrongtham cuts back and forth between images of a well-muscled young boxer preparing for a match and a graceful young woman putting on a glamorous ...

IT'S NO EASY thing to penetrate the perfumed world of Parinya Charoenphol, Thailand's - and probably the world's - only transsexual kickboxing champion. There's the frantic rounds of interviews to ...