Wrtlg's Gay History and Optimistic Future - Pro Wrtlg Stori

Contents:

• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG
• MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
• WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE
• GAY WRTLG UNIVERSE

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.

MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY

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.

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

WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

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.

GAY WRTLG UNIVERSE

“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. So had been 13 years of me beg gay, but I wasn’t livg gay.