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
Contents:
- GAEL GARCíA BERNAL CHAS STARDOM AS A GAY WRTLER ‘CASSANDRO’ FIRST LOOK
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- GAY WRTLERS
- THE STORY OF CASSANDRO, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEXIN WRTLER WHO TRIED TO END HIS LIFE
- MEETG CASSANDRO: MEXI'S MOST INIC GAY WRTLER
GAEL GARCíA BERNAL CHAS STARDOM AS A GAY WRTLER ‘CASSANDRO’ FIRST LOOK
Roger Ross Williams nimbly manvers past the clichés 'Cassandro,' about the openly gay Mexin wrtler who won the hearts of a homophobic sport. * mexican gay wrestler *
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. They weren’t really gay, unls they were the closet.
I’m gay, that’s .
Neher si of the bridge was a great place to grow up gay. Homophobia is everywhere.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
Yeah, we are gay, but we do know how to wrtle. Gael Garcia Bernal looks fabuloso as first image om the upg feature film Cassandro, which tells the story of gay Mexin-Amerin profsnal wrtler Sl Armendariz, was jt released, lettg see what Bernal will look like the tular role.
GAY WRTLERS
When he was young, he beme fascated wh luchador wrtlg and had dreams of petg at the hight he entered the wrtlg world, the gay Armendariz me up wh the flamboyant and effemate persona Cassandro, the "Liberace of Lucha Libre, " and he took the machismo-driven world of wrtlg by surprise, beg one of the most popular Mexin wrtlers and the first foreign-born wrtler to w a world tle. \n\nSa\u00fal, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso, ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the character Cassandro. But while some thought his homosexualy would be a hdrance such a machismo-driven dtry, he soon rose to the top of the Mexin wrtlg world by embracg a flamboyantly gay persona known as “Cassandro.
THE STORY OF CASSANDRO, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEXIN WRTLER WHO TRIED TO END HIS LIFE
The official synopsis for “Cassandro” reads: “Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso, ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the ‘exoti’ character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre. 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. Home / Profsnal Wrtler Profil / Gay Wrtlers. For nearly a century, exótis have been the clowns of Mexin wrtlg: silly, queer-d characters flamboyant drag who pranced about the rg for the amement of homophobic crowds.
Until Cassandro, an openly gay fighter whose outsized personaly and atypil succs feel ready-ma for the movi. To that end, Bernal tsts the character’s signature blond hairstyle (close-cropped on the si, a glam-rock pompadour on top) to be practilly the only giveaway of Saúl’s homosexualy. There’s plenty workg agast Saúl, who practic a homophobic sport a nservative Catholic society, and yet, “Cassandro” downplays the nflict — which is to say, pretty much anytime an obstacle up, Saúl surpass whout much difficulty.
MEETG CASSANDRO: MEXI'S MOST INIC GAY WRTLER
The stak are high, nsirg that Cassandro changed the face of Mexin wrtlg (he revealed his face, for one, and also his sexualy), and yet the nflict remas relatively low-key throughout, as if Williams believ that pictg the homophobia would be to perpetuate . On Saúl’s way to gay hero-hood, there are two men his life whom he wants to w over: first, his father, and send, a fellow wrtler named Gerardo, aka “El Commandante” (Raúl Castillo), who is closeted and married.