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
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. A prev versn of this story said Berenato was the first openly gay WWE Superstar, rather than the first openly gay female WWE Superstar. Daria Berenato ma history when she beme the WWE's first openly gay female Superstar.
Though her fay and close iends had known Berenato is gay for years, she tells PEOPLE, "I wasn't a hundred percent fortable wh myself and my sexualy at the time to be open about .