Pro wrtlg in Pat Patterson, the dtry's first openly gay star and a litenant of promoter Vce McMahon, has died. The WWE Hall of Fame member was 79.
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PAT PATTERSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLG STAR, HAS DIED AT 79
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. Pro wrtlg in Pat Patterson, the dtry's first openly gay star and a long-time litenant of promoter Vce McMahon, has died, officials said WWE Hall of Fame member was Patterson at the 53rd Cliflower Alley Club Rnn Conventn at the Gold Coast Hotel & Caso Las Vegas, Nev.
"The teenaged Patterson was thrown out of his home Montreal after g out to his parents and did the unthkable — immigrated to Ameri to make the hyper-macho world of pro wrtlg, he wrote his 2016 bgraphy, "Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE. "Havg a gay man wh a seat at the cisn-makg table at a pany like the WWE was and is credibly important, " Zeigler said.
The visibily of his g out years later was great, but havg a seat at the table and makg sure the people around him knew he was gay, the power of that n't be overstated. Wh the prevalence of homosexual and transgenr people appearg pop culture the days, would appear that tolerance and acceptance of each other’s differenc is on the rise this untry. Havg been tght heteronormativy throughout childhood, this has lead to some very homophobic attus among profsnal athlet.