Kenny Omega On How WWE Portrays Gay Characters, The Goln Lovers/LGBT Communy Kenny Omega recently spoke wh Yahoo! Sports prr to this weekend's NJPW: Strong Style Evolved show where he was set to team wh Kota Ibhi as The Goln Lovers to take on The Young Bucks. Featured below are some of the highlights om the terview. On The Goln Lovers gettg support om the LGBT muny: "Let people thk what they want to thk. If LGBT people n intify wh our story, if they thk 'The Goln Lovers are my team,' I'm good wh that. It's the story of two wrtlers who shared dreams on their way up, who beme fast iends, who are now rng at the top of their game." On the way WWE has portrayed gay characters over the years: "I thk 's important to show the 21st century that if you're gay, lbian, trans, whatever, that you should feel jt as wele to be a wrtlg fan as anyone else. You're wele the space. I do get some stupid msag on Twter om homophobic people and they're ually WWE fans, which kd of driv thgs home. In WWE, a gay person is ually portrayed like some sort of edy act to be mocked and lghed at. The world's not like that anymore. Everyone should feel wele to the show." On takg advantage of big opportuni: "It's about takg advantage of the moment when you're prented wh the opportuny. I have a visn for what I want wrtlg to be, and I was fortunate not jt to have the opportuny to show my talents at the right time, and not jt to have the right opponents, and not jt to have the knowledge that the ont office has fah me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt the middle of all this. I've been blsed to have this chance to make wrtlg a ltle more what I want to be." Check out the plete Kenny Omega terview at
Contents:
- ARE THEY GAY? PRO WRTLG’S GOLN LOVERS SAY DON’T MATTER
- THE GOLN LOVERS EXPLAED: THE COMPLEXI OF PRO-WRTLG’S GAYT TAG TEAM
- KENNY OMEGA GAY? WHAT IS GOLN LOVERS? KNOW THE SEXUALY OF FORMER AEW CHAMPN
- HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
ARE THEY GAY? PRO WRTLG’S GOLN LOVERS SAY DON’T MATTER
Is Kenny Omega Gay? What is Goln Lovers? Has he dated Kota Ibhi? Check out the answers to all the qutns this article. * are the golden lovers gay *
The big qutn many wrtlg fans have is whether Ibhi and Omega are gay lovers real life, play a uple the rg or are jt two close buds.
Doyle is himself openly gay. In nfs I hadn’t heard of the Goln Lovers before this week and if you are the same, Cagi Seats has a good overview lookg to the “are-they-gay-or-aren’t-they? “I thk ’s important to show the 21st century that if you’re gay, lbian, trans, whatever, that you should feel jt as wele to be a wrtlg fan as anyone else.
THE GOLN LOVERS EXPLAED: THE COMPLEXI OF PRO-WRTLG’S GAYT TAG TEAM
“I do get some stupid msag on Twter om homophobic people and they’re ually WWE fans, which kd of driv thgs home. In WWE, a gay person is ually portrayed like some sort of edy act to be mocked and lghed at.
KENNY OMEGA GAY? WHAT IS GOLN LOVERS? KNOW THE SEXUALY OF FORMER AEW CHAMPN
Wh strikg good looks and creasgly isky homo-social ntact, the two played wh queerns by smoochg the rg to tnt opponents– between geoly synchronized aerial attacks.
HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
In Hollywood, actors and actrs who receive overwhelmg aclas for “playg gay” have bee the subjects of cricism–is the Goln Lovers suatn that much different? The perceptn and populary of The Goln Lovers as a specifilly Japane phenomenon is also cur, addg another layer of plexy to the suatn is Japan’s idsyncratic relatnship to homosexualy.
Homosexual activy is legal Japan, however gay marriage is not. Is playful ambiguy acceptable when to queer storyl, pecially a soc-polil climate growg more hostile to openly gay people?