WWE referee Shawn Bent out as gay on Natnal Comg Out Day - Outsports

Contents:

• DARIA BERENATO REFLECTS ON MAKG HISTORY AS WWE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FEMALE WRTLER
• WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT OUT AS GAY ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
• 10 PROFSNAL WRTLERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT COM OUT AS GAY ON "NATNAL COMG OUT DAY"
• WWE NXT STAR JAKE ATLAS SAYS HE DON'T WANT TO BE KNOWN AS 'THE GAY WRTLER'

DARIA BERENATO REFLECTS ON MAKG HISTORY AS WWE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FEMALE WRTLER

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.

Daria Berenato, better known as Sonya Deville — WWE superstar — ma headl 2015 when she beme the first openly gay female wrtler WWE history.

Berenato says her fay knew that she was gay, but she had not admted publicly at the time. WWE referee Shawn Bent took Natnal Comg Out Day to heart Monday when he me out publicly as gay beamg fashn. I did my bt to supprs any and all homosexual thoughts before and after that for a long time.

WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT OUT AS GAY ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY

“I was nvced that I would never be succsful if people knew I was gay. Bent’s msage me alongsi imag of him celebratg at Come Out Wh Pri Orlando wh others while wearg the “We Are All Human” shirt ma famo wrtlg circl by former WWE wrtler Jake Atlas, who is also gay. Why do people thk wrtlg is gay?

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10 PROFSNAL WRTLERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

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. 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. " Cassandro also ma-evented Effy's Big Gay Bnch 2020.

WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT COM OUT AS GAY ON "NATNAL COMG OUT DAY"

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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. 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.

WWE NXT STAR JAKE ATLAS SAYS HE DON'T WANT TO BE KNOWN AS 'THE GAY WRTLER'

Sonya Deville, The First Openly Gay Female Wrtler (Source: Ptert). Jake Atlas is openly gay and proud.

In fact, he is the first gay man to have opened up about his sexualy the sport. He remembers ntemplatg if beg gay and a wrtler was patible. He knew that he was gay and not bisexual.