Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS
- THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
- MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
Jake Atlas is a pro wrtlg champ, popular wh fans and openly gay. * wrestling for gay guy *
And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11. There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said. Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.
He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.
After all, through s of TV programmg om WWE and other wrtlg promotns, the genre as a whole has largely tend to mock gay men and trans people while leerg at like any art form, wrtlg has always ntaed multus — and the days, ’s full of talented queer performers who are changg their dtry for the week, Outsports fished off their list of the 200 bt LGBTQ+ wrtlers the world wh an absolutely stacked top 20 that prov why wrtlg is the new, thrivg queer subculture.
GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS
Oh Valley Wrtlg has s first openly-gay heavyweight champn. * wrestling for gay guy *
Effy, a scffy queer ripped fishs and a pk-spiked jacket, has been rvg out space for LGBTQ+ fans and performers alike wh events like “Effy’s Big Gay Bnch, ” a seri of wrtlg shows featurg a diverse lp of LGBTQ+ talent. He’s also mp as hell, performg tag teams wh nam like “Gaytanic Panic” (alongsi beloved edy mon wrtler Danhsen) and, simply, “Team Bsy” (wh Allie Katch, ranked sixth on Outsports’ list) Billy Dixon, Outsports’ pick for the year’s top LGBTQ+ wrtler, tly exemplifi the queer wrtlg movement. A Black gay wrtler who isn’t aaid to dive onto a row of light tub to take a match to the next level, Dixon’s prence the muny is a bean of cln for others.
Why do people thk wrtlg is gay? Wrtlg fans often like to remisce about how awome everythg was back the Attu Era, but one thg that was cidly unol was how pro wrtlg ma LGBTQ wrtlers stay the closet while g kayfabe gay romance storyl for shock value or havg a wrtler "play gay" to draw heat. In fact, when Goldt turned face, WWE ma a big al out of announcg his heterosexualy, while Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo pretend to marry 2002, then stopped the ceremony to say "jt kiddg, ha ha, we're not gay, eher.
Not only do Katch wrtle solo GCW, but she has partnered up wh Effy a tag team lled Bsy or, as Katch has lled the duo, Too Gay Power Trip. Anthony Bowens may be one of the bt-known, most outspoken gay wrtlers, but wasn't too many years ago that he was nervo about g out and how might affect his reer.
THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
In , he clarified that he prefers to be "labeled" as gay. That vio has over a quarter of a ln views and nearly 7, 000 lik, and Bowens may well now be the most over gay athlete the sport.
) He is also AEW's first openly gay belt holr, ever sce September 2022 when he and Max Caster won the AEW World Tag Team Champnship at "AEW Dyname: Grand Slam. Last Word on Sports tells that Asa has been wrtlg sce high school and me out as gay at that time as well.
Although Exotis' mps was origally seen as strictly kayfabe, Cassandro was the first such performer to e out as gay. In dog so, he broke ground for numero other gay Exotis who have reclaimed the trope and ma an empowerg one rather than somethg meant to margalize or make fun of the LGBTQ muny.
MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
" Cassandro also ma-evented Effy's Big Gay Bnch 2020. (Note on the pronouns: Effy referred to Cassandro lguistilly fluid fashn as he, she, and they durg his terview wh Wrtlg Inc., but sourc cludg Outsports and Gayly refer to him wh mascule pronouns so we've followed this nventn, as well.
The reason why we've listed him unr his old WWE rg name is bee this is what he was gog by when he ma history as the first-ever WWE wrtler to e out as gay, dog so a 2013 TMZ terview. Shortly after Young ma his announcement about beg gay, he was ntacted by Cher. Not only is Effy himself out and proud, but he's created his own promo to showse LGBTQ athlet lled Effy's Big Gay Bnch.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Jake Atlas me out while he was still the di, so as per So Cal Uncensored, so when he signed on wh WWE, he did so as a fully out gay man. Prr to jog the pany, Atlas had also lled his shot by appearg on an episo of "Unrver Boss" and announcg his goal was "to bee the first openly gay WWE world champn.
While Darren Young may have been the first openly gay WWE wrtler, Sonya Deville was the first woman on the roster to e out as LGBTQ.
(For those unfaiar wh this acronym, 's meant to be a more clive — not to mentn, fun to say — alternative to LGBTQ, wh Btle explag that stands for queer/qutng, uncid, tersex, lbian, trans, bisexual, asexual, gay/genrqueer. Bee on this night, ont of a sold-out crowd some 20 south of downtown Los Angel, everybody is here to see a champn who jt happens to be gay.