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

Contents:

• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG
• MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
• WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE
• FEATURED WWE FANFICTN
• GAY WRTLG UNIVERSE
• 10+ WRTLG STORI GAY MOST VIEW

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG

Oh Valley Wrtlg has s first openly-gay heavyweight champn, and fellow queers, we’ve been missg out.

That there are athlet who are gay isn’t unual, but for a lot of , this particular, er… sport — a hybrid of showmanship and athleticism — evok gargantuan, mulleted whe men who n barely be rtraed, wh sptle flyg as they shout threats at their opponent.

This tone for gays probably shouldn’t be surprisg — homoeroticism has always been the elephant the wrtlg rg. “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.

MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY

“It’s sweaty guys unrwear pickg each other up … ’s pretty gay. 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.

“I was out there wh Paradise — he’s actually a gay character — and I read his signal wrong, so we had to e up wh somethg. To clarify, ’s Perry himself makg headl for beg the first openly-gay heavyweight champn, and not Amon, who as a mon, thriv not on relatnships, but actg out his evil impuls.

WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

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!

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“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. From the Balor Club beg for everyone to Drag Queens hostg WrtleMania events, there’s the sense that there is a gay renaissance gog on wrtlg today.

GAY WRTLG UNIVERSE

Some might pot to openly gay superstars whose sexualy isn’t part of their gimmick like Sonya Deville. All of the exampl pot to the ia that the treatment of gay workers and storyl is improvg.

What’s ls discsed is that sports entertament has historilly borrowed signifint piec of gay culture om the very begng. It seems wrtlg, wh s close physil ntact between the same sex, there is the "herently" gay.

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The dience uld boo and tnt the gay character to prove their machismo. In the same show, a babyface uld borrow elements of mp to get over, and then the next match, nigrate a character for beg gay. The irony isn’t lost on gay workers like DJ Summers.

"It’s tertg to me how many homophobic fans there are bee you are watchg sweaty men, their unrwear, fake fightg. If you are gog to be homophobic, maybe watch somethg ls homoerotic? It’s a job and a liftyle that often draws people that feel "different, " so perhaps ’s not surprisg that om the earlit days of sports entertament, gay men and women have stck out to the world of wrtlg to make their fortun.