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The cross-drsg exóti – also known as Sl Armendáriz – overme dg addictn, homophobia and a suici attempt to bee Lucha Libre’s first openly gay world tle wner

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THE GAY WRTLERS OF MEXI

Es gay y travti, pero también uno los luchador más premiados en el mundo macho la lucha libre mexina. "Muchos dicen 'un homosexual no pue hacer to'. Así que me gta provorlos un po". * lucha libre gay *

Based on a te story, “Cassandro” is the bt possible vehicle for s star Gael García Bernal, who giv an extraordarily physil performance as Saúl Armendáriz, a scrappy gay outsir who enters the strange world of Mexin Lucha Libre wrtlg.

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Tien que ver tas películas sobre luchador gays y queer. ¡No salgas sa y entra a un mundo glter y lentejuela en el rg! * lucha libre gay *

In the first scen, where we see Armendáriz petg unr the name El Topo, director Roger Ross Williams — the documentarian behd “The Apollo” and “God Lov Uganda” makg his fictn-film but here — nfintly and swiftly sketch a i which homoeroticism and fear of homosexualy are some peculiar kd of headlock wh each other. Armendáriz tak tnts om hulkg wrtlers backstage and dish them right back, and out the rg his preordaed feat at the hands of his brawny opponent is so sexually charged that the homoeroticism isn’t subtext; is practilly text.

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Pro wrtlg Mexi is ually associated wh buff, tough show-boatg guys. But 's also an unlikely niche for the untry's LGBT, thanks to Los Exótis — mpy, mostly gay male wrtlers who are known as much for their wrtlg skills as they are for their feme garb and flirty behavr. * lucha libre gay *

The Sundance Film Ftival selectn om Prime Vio marks the narrative feature but of acclaimed documentarian Roger Ross Williams and sts Gael García Bernal the tle role as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso who ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the character Cassandro, aka the “Liberace of Lucha Libre. I unrstand reprentatn, of urse, as a Black gay man, but I wanted the bt possible actor who uld brg this amazg character to life.

Asked specifilly to rpond to the qutn of what type of actors should play what rol — whether gay, straight, relig or racially diverse, margalized, etc.

It’s fascatg to see someone om the gay muny play a very, very straight character.

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On the masked wrtlg circu Mexi, the good guy is often a gay riture, beloved by all * lucha libre gay *

Most workg today are gay members of an often ostracized mory for whom lucha libre is a statement of pri, or at least a mpy, unrtraed extensn of self. The old-time exótis had been straight men harpg on tired gay clichés. A new generatn of openly gay wrtlers reveled the exóti’s sexualy, yly tweakg stereotyp to nont the dience wh the ia that beg gay uld be somethg more than a stage joke.

MEETG CASSANDRO: MEXI'S MOST INIC GAY WRTLER

Cassandro, the gay, cross-drsg lucha libre wrtler, scrib his bisg route to the top and the spicy charms of El Paso, Texas, his home town<br> * lucha libre gay *

Today, gay marriage is legal Mexi Cy, but the overwhelmgly Catholic untry still has one of Lat Ameri’s hight rat of antigay hate crim, and sual homophobia is eply graed.

Lea también: Méxi (y Améri Lata) puen ser peor para las mujer que Med OrienteD los años 40 existe un tipo luchador al que llaman "exóti": son hombr cuyos personaj ntienen elementos homosexual o uno los luchador exótis más famosos Méxi Cassandro, quien se tof o "el Liberace la lucha libre". Ahora sé que era porque era gay", tenía 16 años cidió mudarse a Ciudad Juárez para nvertirse en que el rg lo hacía sentirse emporado. Muchos dicen 'un homosexual no pue hacer to'.

GOLPIZAS FUERA Y NTRO L RG: LA HISTORIA RUBY GARNIA, UN íNO GAY EN LA LUCHA LIBRE MEXINA

"Por años me stó que el públi, en pecial el masculo, jara talogarme o un hombre gay y viera mi talento, mis habilidas o luchador; que jaran ver lo negativo para ver lo posivo", objetivo era ncientizar a la diencia. "No quiero que seas parte l problema, quiero que seas parte la solución, y la solución que tú tés bien n que alguien sea homosexual, transgénero, bisexual. El club pelea los dispacados físis y mental en JapónCampeónComo para jar bien en claro su punto, Cassandro mostró que un hombre gay pue ser tan buen luchador o uno heterosexual.

Una gran parte nna la homosexualidad".

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