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Contents:
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- GAY PRO WRTLER JAI VIDAL SIGNS MULTI-YEAR NTRACT WH IMPACT WRTLG
- 10 PROFSNAL WRTLERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
- THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
- DARIA BERENATO REFLECTS ON MAKG HISTORY AS WWE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FEMALE WRTLER
- THE RISE OF EFFY, A GAY PRO WRTLER WHO OVERME THE ODDS — AND SLURS — TO CRAFT A LUCRATIVE PERSONAL BRAND
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
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And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11. There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said. Wrtlg fans often like to remisce about how awome everythg was back the Attu Era, but one thg that was cidly unol was how pro wrtlg ma LGBTQ wrtlers stay the closet while g kayfabe gay romance storyl for shock value or havg a wrtler "play gay" to draw heat.
In fact, when Goldt turned face, WWE ma a big al out of announcg his heterosexualy, while Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo pretend to marry 2002, then stopped the ceremony to say "jt kiddg, ha ha, we're not gay, eher. Not only do Katch wrtle solo GCW, but she has partnered up wh Effy a tag team lled Bsy or, as Katch has lled the duo, Too Gay Power Trip. Anthony Bowens may be one of the bt-known, most outspoken gay wrtlers, but wasn't too many years ago that he was nervo about g out and how might affect his reer.
In , he clarified that he prefers to be "labeled" as gay.
GAY PRO WRTLER JAI VIDAL SIGNS MULTI-YEAR NTRACT WH IMPACT WRTLG
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That vio has over a quarter of a ln views and nearly 7, 000 lik, and Bowens may well now be the most over gay athlete the sport. ) He is also AEW's first openly gay belt holr, ever sce September 2022 when he and Max Caster won the AEW World Tag Team Champnship at "AEW Dyname: Grand Slam. Last Word on Sports tells that Asa has been wrtlg sce high school and me out as gay at that time as well.
Although Exotis' mps was origally seen as strictly kayfabe, Cassandro was the first such performer to e out as gay.
10 PROFSNAL WRTLERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
In dog so, he broke ground for numero other gay Exotis who have reclaimed the trope and ma an empowerg one rather than somethg meant to margalize or make fun of the LGBTQ muny. " Cassandro also ma-evented Effy's Big Gay Bnch 2020.
(Note on the pronouns: Effy referred to Cassandro lguistilly fluid fashn as he, she, and they durg his terview wh Wrtlg Inc., but sourc cludg Outsports and Gayly refer to him wh mascule pronouns so we've followed this nventn, as well. The reason why we've listed him unr his old WWE rg name is bee this is what he was gog by when he ma history as the first-ever WWE wrtler to e out as gay, dog so a 2013 TMZ terview. Shortly after Young ma his announcement about beg gay, he was ntacted by Cher.
Not only is Effy himself out and proud, but he's created his own promo to showse LGBTQ athlet lled Effy's Big Gay Bnch.
THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
Jake Atlas me out while he was still the di, so as per So Cal Uncensored, so when he signed on wh WWE, he did so as a fully out gay man. Prr to jog the pany, Atlas had also lled his shot by appearg on an episo of "Unrver Boss" and announcg his goal was "to bee the first openly gay WWE world champn. While Darren Young may have been the first openly gay WWE wrtler, Sonya Deville was the first woman on the roster to e out as LGBTQ.
(For those unfaiar wh this acronym, 's meant to be a more clive — not to mentn, fun to say — alternative to LGBTQ, wh Btle explag that stands for queer/qutng, uncid, tersex, lbian, trans, bisexual, asexual, gay/genrqueer. Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.
DARIA BERENATO REFLECTS ON MAKG HISTORY AS WWE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FEMALE WRTLER
He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month. Out pro wrtler Jai Vidal has signed an exclive multi-year ntract wh IMPACT Wrtlg, makg him the first out gay male wrtler to sign wh the pany s 20-year history. He also beme a staple of “EFFY’s Big Gay Bnch” events.
THE RISE OF EFFY, A GAY PRO WRTLER WHO OVERME THE ODDS — AND SLURS — TO CRAFT A LUCRATIVE PERSONAL BRAND
Yet no out gay man has ever been unr ntract wh the pany until Vidal. Vidal now jos Anthony Bowens, Fred Rosser, Parrow, Qucy Elltt and Jake Atlas as the only out gay men ever signed to a major televised pro wrtlg promotn.
“Maybe one day down the le, somebody will see me on TV and will be spired by me beg openly gay to chase whatever goals and dreams they have as an open person the LGBTQ muny. Notable among those is s partnership wh the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance. Shaw reprented IMPACT as a special gut speaker at the NAGAAA Gay Softball World Seri openg ceremony Dallas Augt.