Pat Patterson, a longtime employee of WWE and a pneerg pro wrtler who was the first the pany to e out as gay, has died at 79.
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- OPENLY GAY FORMER WRTLER DI AT 40 APPARENT SUICI
- PAT PATTERSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLG STAR, HAS DIED AT 79
- WWE HALL OF FAMER PAT PATTERSON, 1ST GAY SUPERSTAR PANY, DI AT 79
- FIRST GAY WRTLG STAR PAT PATTERSON AD AT 79 AFTER LEGENDARY WWE REER
- PAT PATTERSON, FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLER AND WWE HALL OF FAMER, DI AT 79
OPENLY GAY FORMER WRTLER DI AT 40 APPARENT SUICI
Kanyon Was One of First Openly Gay Wrtlers; Found Wh Many Pills Nearby, Report Says * gay wrestler dead *
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"Kanyon was bt known for his time WCW the late 90s, movg to WWE the Invasn angle after Ted Turner's pany admted he was gay after leavg WWE 2004 wh the ia of g his homosexualy a wrtlg angle, although neher Vce McMahon's pany nor rivals TNA would hire him that star began his WCW reer as a jobber, beg given a nstctn worker was then placed unr a mask and renamed Mortis, portrayg a character siar to Reptile and Srpn om the Mortal Kombat seri of puter then had a spell the Flock alongsi Raven before beg affiliated on screen wh Diamond Dallas Page and Bam Bam Bigelow a stable lled The Jersey his stt he ed the nicknam Postively Kanyon and Chris 'Champagne' Kanyon, but was ltle more than a sporadilly ed midrr. When he announced 2014 that he was gay, they remaed loyal.ImageCred...WWEPat Patterson, the first major wrtlg star to announce that he was gay, died on Wednday Miami Beach.
Patterson on his tobgraphy, “Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE” (2016).After s of workg his way up through regnal wrtlg circus Montreal, Boston and San Francis, Mr. McMahon’s rivalry wh the wrtler Stone Cold Steve At the late 1990s.He announced he was gay 2014 durg an episo of “Legends’ Hoe,” a realy televisn show on the WWE Network which retired pro wrtlers were sequtered together.Even though his iends and some wrtlg sirs knew about his sexualy, Mr.
PAT PATTERSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLG STAR, HAS DIED AT 79
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. * gay wrestler dead *
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(He changed his name legally 2009.) Early his Canadian reer, he relled, he sometim traveled to towns “near the end of the known world” and wrtled there for five dollars a night.When he was 16, he disvered a gay bar.
WWE HALL OF FAMER PAT PATTERSON, 1ST GAY SUPERSTAR PANY, DI AT 79
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FIRST GAY WRTLG STAR PAT PATTERSON AD AT 79 AFTER LEGENDARY WWE REER
Openly Gay Former WWE Wrtler Chris Kanyon Dead Apparent Suici * gay wrestler dead *
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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.
PAT PATTERSON, FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLER AND WWE HALL OF FAMER, DI AT 79
"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. Dpe the challeng wh his mental illns, Kanyon — born Christopher Klucsars — also lived at odds wh beg a profsnal wrtler and a gay man.
Still, 2001, Kanyon cid to e out wh wrtlg, but not publicly — and even pched himself to be a non-stereotypilly gay character, which acrdg to the posthumoly published “Wrtlg Realy: The Life and Md of Chris Kanyon, Wrtlg’s Gay Superstar, ” didn’t receive support om WWE creative. Onle mors after this appearance circulated, speculatg he was gay, which left Kanyon no optn but to e out and make his inty his full-time wrtlg shtick, which aga was turned down. WWEWednday, December 2, 2020Legendary pro wrtler Pat Patterson who me out as the first gay superstar WWE has sports entertament pany announced Wednday that Patterson passed away at the age of 79.
A longtime employee of the WWE, Patterson was hailed as a pneer for the LGBT muny wh the though his g out was long-known wh wrtlg circl, Patterson chronicled his life the dtry his 2016 tobgraphy "Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE. "Addnally, the Canada-born Patterson is forever known as WWE's first-ever Interntental Champn, a prtig tle outsi of the pany's world champnship, and the creator of one of the pany's most unique match, the 30-person "Royal Rumble" Patterson was the first WWE Interntental "In a reer spanng six s, the renaissance man left an lible mark on the dtry the rg, on the microphone and behd the scen, " WWE stated, alludg to his one-time stt as TV lor mentator and his latter day role as a match producer and wrtled om 1958 until 1984, but still remaed a fixture of WWE's televised programmg, regularly appearg alongsi pany chairman Vce Patterson wrote about his life and reer the 2016 tobgraphy, "Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE.