Man Fights: a gay wrtler’s story - LEO Weekly

Contents:

• INTRODUCG THE MOST OUTRAGEOLY GAY FIGHT VIO OF ALL TIME
• IT’S AN EVEN (EQUAL) MATCH: A FIGHTG GAY WRTLER
• GAY MEN FIGHT
• GAY FIGHT
• MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

INTRODUCG THE MOST OUTRAGEOLY GAY FIGHT VIO OF ALL TIME

Mostly bee ’s hands down the gayt fight vio of all time. Lagman has intified as gay sce he was high school, spendg years an all-boys school.

“That’s when I realized that, hey, you know what, I thk am gay. Members of the gay muny are ually stereotyped as theatril and lovers of the performg arts.

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IT’S AN EVEN (EQUAL) MATCH: A FIGHTG GAY WRTLER

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GAY MEN FIGHT

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GAY FIGHT

“I’ve always said you have to be a ltle gay to be a wrtler, ” said Perry, who performs as Amon, Demon Marquis of Hell when he is not workg as a supervisor at Uspir, a rintial psychiatric facily for kids. “It’s sweaty guys unrwear pickg each other up … ’s pretty gay.

MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY

Even so, when Oh Valley Wrtlg, or OVW, announced s first openly-gay heavyweight champn, I spent a week my feelgs about actually attendg a match. While I was happy to check off yet another em on the gay agenda, the last thg I wanted was to vis a place I imaged was not only hyper-mascule, but a mag for MAGA hats. In a small locker room that uld jt as easily be lled a drsg room, Perry talked to me about showmanship, fah and beg gay an unual sport.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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So had been 13 years of me beg gay, but I wasn’t livg gay. “It’s still my msage even today — I still travel to church and mps and speak, and I thk people get aaid my msage is gog to be ‘everybody, go be gay!

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

“I work at a psych facily wh kids and, while they don’t know I’m gay, someday they might, and ’s great bee now they n see that gay don’t mean you have to put on a drs or whatever — I beat up people and got the same belt John Cena did. You walkg away didn’t stop me, me beg gay didn’t change anythg. When I asked how they felt about an openly gay wrtler, their fac oze, fell to the ground and shattered.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.