Jai Vidal be the first out gay male wrtler to sign wh IMPACT the pany’s 20-year history.
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GAY PRO WRTLER JAI VIDAL SIGNS MULTI-YEAR NTRACT WH IMPACT WRTLG
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. 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. His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men.
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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. Yet no out gay man has ever been unr ntract wh the pany until Vidal.
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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. Communy outreach is major part of why Vidal is exced to jo the IMPACT roster, due to his own stggl to fd muny and people who unrstood his experienc growg up as a gay teenager South Florida. “When I was 17, I ed to go to an LGBT youth group … I alt wh a lot of homophobia.
“But they showed the importance of beg yourself bee, if somebody se you beg yourself, another person will see that and ’s almost like a domo effect until fally jt be so wily accepted that you’re not prented as the ‘gay iend’ or ‘gay wrtler. ’ You’re prented as a wrtler who happens to be gay but who still puts on for his muny. “I do thk would be pretty ol to be the first openly gay X-Divisn champn, ” Vidal shared wh a chuckle.