Out Gay Pro Wrtler Anthony Bowens: 'Thank You, [All Ele Wrtlg], For Lettg Me Be Me' - Towleroad Gay News

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Gay wrtler Anthony Bowens gave an emotnal speech after he and Max Caster of The Acclaimed won the AEW world tag team champnship at "AEW Dyname: Grand Slam."

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GAY WRTLER ANTHONY BOWENS SHAR EMOTNAL VIO AFTER WNG CHAMPNSHIP

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In 2017, the Acclaimed star ially nfirmed that he was bisexual, before later revealg that he intifi as gay. The fellow wrtler has spoken about LGBTQ reprentatn profsnal wrtlg the past as well as the ways which homophobia n be prevented.

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Anthony Bowens ma history on Wednday after beg the first openly gay man to w an AEW champnship on Dyname. * aew wrestling gay *

The w mak Bowens only the send publicly out gay man to hold a champnship a major televised Amerin promotn.

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AEW’s first gay champn, most tag team ws AEW, most popular team wrtlg: everyone lov The Acclaimed,” Bowens wrote.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER ANTHONY BOWENS: ‘THANK YOU, [ALL ELE WRTLG], FOR LETTG ME BE ME’

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"If Max and I n get the job done, I have the opportuny at beg the first gay AEW champn, which would mean a lot to me. It would also place him very select pany throughout all of wrtlg history: The first out gay petor for rival promotn World Wrtlg Entertament, for example, was Unn native Darren Young, who earned tag team gold as half of the Prime Time Players 's cln of LGBTQ talent such as Jersey Cy native Sonny Kiss, who is genr fluid, or former Women's World Champn Nyla Rose, who is transgenr, was among the factors that motivated Bowens to sign wh the pany 2020.

Will natnal dienc on televisn accept a succsful gay man as a profsnal wrtler? 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.

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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.

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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. 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.

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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.

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" 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.

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