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?
THE GOLN LOVERS EXPLAED: THE COMPLEXI OF PRO-WRTLG’S GAYT TAG TEAM
“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. “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. 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. 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?
KENNY OMEGA GAY? WHAT IS GOLN LOVERS? KNOW THE SEXUALY OF FORMER AEW CHAMPN
Now, if you thk that sounds pretty gay, A. It is pretty gay, and that’s one of the ma reasons why this story stands out above every other one pro wrtlg right now.
Pro wrtlg and homosexualy have a misrmed and, let’s face , tratg past.
The machismo-drenched artform has featured gay wrtlers, such as the legendary Pat Patterson, gog as far back as the ‘50s, but rarely have they lived their liftyle pletely open while beg an active petor. The bs has featured effemate male characters that are prented unr the moniker “androgyno” orr to not classify a grappler as overtly gay datg back to the ‘40s.
HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE GAYS. THE LIST IS LONG.
It’s almost always a transparent tactic, though, and never a te statement of homosexualy. The Goln Lovers reprents somethg pletely new and rehg for those of who intify as queer and adore the artform, and says somethg about Amerin sensibili that took a pany based Japan, which has monly held homophobic sentiments culturally, to prent a realistic, unrstated homosexual relatnship. It’s been over four years sce Darren Young beme the first pro wrtler Ameri to e out as gay while unr ntract to the pany, which spurred Stephanie McMahon to announce that the pany would beg lookg at creatg storyl based around “alternative liftyl” the near future.
In 2018, Darren Young is no longer wh the pany, the WWE still hasn’t acknowledged the first openly gay female wrtler the pany’s history (Sonya Deville), and we’re still wag on those new stori.
Hontly, that might be for the bt nsirg the WWE pulled a ba and swch on GLAAD the last time they mted to a gay relatnship angle.