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

Contents:

• GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG
• 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

GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS

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. For Atlas, an openly gay man, the impact and importance of his tle reign is somethg he cherish. I am also gay.

In 2013, Darren Young beme the first openly gay wrtler WWE. Young, who had ntemplated how to handle his sexualy for years, spontaneoly me out to a TMZ meraman when asked about whether or not the wrtlg world was ready for a gay performer.

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

“In the ‘70’s, ‘80’s or even ‘90’s, was not a safe space for gays, ” he says. The recently found and much buzzed about All Ele Wrtlg, featurg the lik of the legendary Chris Jericho, signed Sonny Kiss, an openly gay wrtler, and Nyla Rose, the first-ever transgenr petor signed to a major promotn.

Anthony Bowens is an openly gay pro wrtler. Anthony Bowens, an openly gay wrtler who has most recently peted for IMPACT Wrtlg and WrtlePro, says attus have shifted the six years he has been wrtlg profsnally. Mike Parrow, a gay wrtler who pris himself on btg stereotyp wh his 6-foot-4 and nearly 300-pound ame, stggled to see himself g his sexualy as a source of power when he started his reer.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG

“A mon misnceptn is that we are expected to be award tl, champnships and regnn bee we are gay, ” Atlas says.

“I want to get to a pot where beg a gay champn isn’t a headle, be the norm, ” he says. 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. And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11.

MAN FIGHTS: A GAY WRTLER’S STORY

There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said. The two guys know how to motivate viewers, their hot fight between men, mix of holds and homoeroticism.

Wrtlers Whout Borrs was started by club reprentativ attendg Gay Gam III Vanuver 1990. It helps velop polici and anize wrtlg at the Gay Gam through s votg membership the Feratn of Gay Gam and our direct teractns wh host anizatns.

(WWB) membership is open to dividuals and legimate wrtlg clubs who have monstrated a mment to wrtlers of all ag, race, genr or orientatns a safe, non-elist environment and who adhere to the polici and procr as set forth by the also reprent our member clubs as a votg legate the Feratn of Gay Gam and assist planng Gay Gam wrtlg tournaments, In 2006, WWB was rerporated to broan s missn beyond the FGG. We're a group of iendly gay, bi, and gay-iendly men who love to wrtle. We offer a very relaxed, physilly iendly, fun and joyo but non-sexual environment for gay, bi, and gay-iendly men.

WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

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.

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

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.

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

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. 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.