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- Paul Hunt is an American gymnastics coach, and gymnastics clown. Hunt has performed comedic women's gymnastics routines, including the uneven bars, floor exercises, and the balance beam since 1980. He has performed on US and international television, including Wide World of Sports and America's Funniest Videos.
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Paul Hunt is an American gymnastics coach, and gymnastics clown. Hunt has performed comedic women's gymnastics routines, [1] including the uneven bars, [2] floor exercises, [3] and the balance beam [4] since 1980. [3]
Hunt has been coaching gymnastics in Utah since 1974.While demonstrating a backflip for a female student, he realized the comic value of a man performing wom...
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May 5, 2023 · Paul Hunt was a disabled writer and activist who spearheaded the early Disability Rights Movement in Britain campaigning for Rights, not Charity. In 1972 Paul wrote a letter to the Guardian asking if others would join him in fighting for their right to live independently.
- Securing Civil Rights
- 1960s Activism
- Catalyst For Change
- Birth of UPIAS
Through his experiences at Le Court, Paul began to reflect upon important questions relating to the position of disabled people within society; the oppression they faced, the barriers they encountered, and the rights they should have to exact control over their own lives.
Some of these issues were addressed in the 1966 publication “Stigma: The Experience of Disability”, a collection of essays about the new liberation movement which Paul edited and wrote the foreword for. In the 1960s, he was also an active member of DIG, the Disablement Income Group, who were a prominent disabled-led pressure group who campaigned fo...
In September 1972, Paul published a letter in The Guardian which would have a far-reaching effect on the lives of disabled people. He invited them to join him in forming a new organisation that would address all of the discrimination disabled people faced in their lives.
This led to the formation of UPIAS, the Union for the Physically Impaired Against Segregation, of which Paul was a founding member along with Vik Finkelstein. Together with the rest of the Union, they formulated the basic principles of the social-model interpretation of disability. Although Hunt sadly died in 1979 when the movement was still in its...
Paul Hunt is often described, with good reason, as the founder of the disabled people’s movement in Britain. He was a critical voice in the disability campaigns of the 1960s, which were often driven by non-disabled people, and started the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS); probably the most influential organisation ...
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Jul 31, 2018 · In 1972, Paul was U.S. National Floor Champion. Fun with the flaws. But how does one go from being a highly ranked athlete to making people laugh with his routines? For Paul, like most things in his life, it started with teaching. “I was always trying to show my students what they were doing wrong,” explained Hunt.
Paul Hunt is British-New Zealand human rights expert who specialises in economic, social and cultural rights. Between 2019-2024, he held the office of Chief Commissioner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
