Anthony Bowens of AEW wants to make history as first gay champ

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When to levelg the playg field between gay and straight wrtlers and their characters, there's a lot to grapple wh.

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WRTLG’S GAY HISTORY AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

Beg more faiar wh the gay history of wrtlg mak one realize what a different product would be today whout gay culture. * gay wrestler gimmick *

He Played a Gay Stereotype. It was pretty obvly a gay stereotype (a clip is shown of Adonis – who was married to a woman and had two children – admtg to a WWF dience that he was gay) and not a particularly flatterg one.

Dave Meltzer says that the gimmick was signed to enurage straight people the dience to jeer a gay wrtler, and several very offensive crowd signs om the time certaly back that up. Sexual nuendo, blackface, cursg, body-shamg, and homophobia were jt a few thgs that D-Generatn X did durg their time on televisn durg the Attu Era. The two were prented as a gay wrtler tag team.

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It uld have been a huge step forward for the pany sce both men were not seen through the typil lens of what gay men looked like the era. It was a polarizg gimmick that will never be repeated due to the progrs society has ma on homosexualy. In fact, Billy Gunn works wh The Acclaimed at AEW, who feature an out gay wrtler, Anthony Bowens.

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