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Contents:

• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY
• WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

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.

Oh Valley Wrtlg has s first openly-gay heavyweight champn, and fellow queers, we’ve been missg out.

MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY

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.

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. 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.

WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

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.

“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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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.

“It’s still my msage even today — I still travel to church and mps and speak, and I thk people get aaid my msage is gog to be ‘everybody, go be gay!

“I work at a psych facily wh kids and, while they don’t know I’m gay, someday they might, and ’s great bee now they n see that gay don’t mean you have to put on a drs or whatever — I beat up people and got the same belt John Cena did. You walkg away didn’t stop me, me beg gay didn’t change anythg. When I asked how they felt about an openly gay wrtler, their fac oze, fell to the ground and shattered.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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