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
- WHY I’M JUMPG TO THE WORLD OF PRO WRTLG PROMOTN AND ANNOUNCG CASGAYDIA
PAT PATTERSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO WRTLG STAR, HAS DIED AT 79
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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. "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.
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And, of urse, people like EFFY, the namake of Game Changer Wrtlg’s Big Gay Bnch.
WHY I’M JUMPG TO THE WORLD OF PRO WRTLG PROMOTN AND ANNOUNCG CASGAYDIA
The people are my spiratn for CasGAYdia.
If I n help brg even a morsel of what the people have brought to the ey of pro wrtlg fans as one-third of the bras behd CasGAYdia, then my missn is acplished. But CasGAYdia is more than jt the match on the rd. CasGAYdia will take place Sunday, Sept.
Standg room tickets are still available at CasGAYdia will also air live on IWTV at 7pm ET/4pm PT. 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.