Ramona Gatto
Kickboxing

(Text below courtesy of Outsports.com)

A nine-time champion, Gatto regularly spars with men heavier than she is. Gatto is very out and very proud, telling Lesbianation: ``I’m so proud that I’m able to help change people’s perspectives on gays and lesbians. I used to be unnerved and unsure about how [my sexuality] would come across. Now I don’t think about it - it’s just who I am."

Gatto tells Outsports: ``I have a daughter, Marina, who I have raised myself.  Marina and I are both very involved in the gay and lesbian community. Marina belongs to COLAGE (Children Of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) and lectures all over Northern California about the wonderful life she has had as a child of an alternative family.  We march every year in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade. We have been featured on television specials on Sportschannel and ESPN among others.  I have travelled to various countries to defend my world titles, including Moscow, where I defended and won another world title against the Russian national champion in front of 30,000 people at the Moscow Olympic Stadium.  I am most often referred to by my ring name and professional reputation, "Kickboxing's Bad Girl."