Gay male wrestler

Graphic designer and wrestling aficionado "The Gift" Brian F. is putting together the ultimate guide to gay pro wrestlers for Pride, and. Wrestling fans often like to reminisce about how awesome everything was back in the Attitude Era, but one thing that was decidedly uncool was how pro wrestling made LGBTQ wrestlers stay in the closet while using kayfabe gay romance storylines for shock value or having a wrestler "play gay" to draw heat.

21 out LGBTQ pro : NJPW Strong Openweight Champion

For one thing, she changed her name from the too-cutesy Allie Kat to Katch, as per Fightful. Early inBowens came out yet again in a video posted to the YouTube channel he now shares with his partner Michael. Since her breakup with the evil one Sportskeeda says this was in June ofjust months before she declared her orientation to the TwitterverseKatch has been doing okay for herself.

Allie Katch, who leads off this list for alphabetical reasons, identifies as pansexual, having come out as such in a tweet. Lest there be any confusion, we'll lead off by saying that this Asuka is not the Empress of Tomorrow. Bowens, already a pro wrestler, was fearful that the backlash would be harsh, but he didn't want to ask his boyfriend to take down the video.

Pansexuality means that you're capable of being attracted to anyone regardless of their orientation or gender identity. Effy told Wrestling Inc. We love wrestling, but we especially love queer wrestlers! Although Exoticos' campiness was originally seen as strictly kayfabe, Cassandro was the first such performer to come out as gay.

In doing so, he broke ground for numerous other gay Exoticos who have reclaimed the trope and made it an empowering one rather than something meant to marginalize or make fun of the LGBTQ community. For another, she's been appearing all over the place in the indies as well as having an Impact match in and an AEW appearance in The twosome are a force to be reckoned with, winning the GCW tag team championship in April and successfully defending it until July.

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Queer pro wrestling’s final boss and self-professed “First Gay” planted himself firmly as the most intimidating member of the GCW roster in Many of today's most popular wrestlers, both in major feds and on the indies, are LGBTQ+.

In it, he clarified that he prefers to be "labeled" as gay. Throughout her pro wrestling career, she has identified as transgender, although in Japan she prefers to gay male wrestler as genderless since she feels that audiences there are somewhat less accepting of her as a transwoman than international ones might be.

As Veny, she wrestled a few AEW matches inand we hope to see her back there in the future. She's appeared in the U. Last Word on Sports tells us that Asuka has been wrestling since high school and came out as gay at that time as well.

As Cassandro told the Wrestling Inc. Cassandro may be mostly retired from the ring these days, and yet he's hardly fading away into obscurity. In fact, when Goldust turned face, WWE made a big deal out of announcing his heterosexuality, while Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo pretended to marry inthen stopped the ceremony to say "just kidding, ha ha, we're not gay, either.

That video has over a quarter of a million views and nearly 7, likes, and Bowens may well now be the most over gay athlete in the sport. Cassandro may be the best-known Exotico, a type of luchador that incorporates a drag queen aesthetic into their act.

As Bowens wrote in Outsportsthe big reveal occurred in when his boyfriend mentioned their in a video he posted to his YouTube channel. It is not just the big companies that are becoming increasingly inclusive, though.

This Asuka, instead, is a young wrestler who's making a name for herself in Japan. As it turns out, people were actually supportive, and even more so when he publicly announced his bisexuality on Facebook a few months later. Anthony Bowens may be one of the best-known, most outspoken gay wrestlers, but it wasn't too many years ago that he was nervous about coming out and how it might affect his career.