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So you’re breaking down stereotypes that homosexuals are weaker?
Yes, and wrestling can be extremely beneficial for a gay person to encounter because it teaches you how to test your limits faith in your own ability.
Have you seen a change in young gay kids who take up wrestling? What I tell my kids is that I’m teaching them how to fight efficiently and appropriately and effectively so they’re not wasting time and energy fighting battles that they’re going to lose and never hurting someone more than is necessary.
It doesnt always matter who wins; people like to know why things are happening.
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When we first heard about a gay wrestling club in San Francisco we were like, those San Franciscans. It teaches you how to fight and succeed, it also teaches you how to be a champion for other people.
Once I got out I wanted to be in acting, but there arent a lot of places you can act as a 29-year-old man, so wrestling worked out.
Anyone in the performative arts, particularly arts that embrace the campier aspects of performance, can attend a wrestling match and recognize the general language of it. While I was happy to check off yet another item on the gay agenda, the last thing I wanted was to visit a place I imagined was not only hyper-masculine, but a magnet for MAGA hats.
When I arrived, the staff was in hustle mode, exuding that universal, pre-show energy as they set up for the match.
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That there are athletes who are gay isnt unusual, but for a lot of us, this particular, er… sport a hybrid of showmanship and athleticism evokes gargantuan, mulleted white men who can barely be restrained, with spittle flying as they shout threats at their opponent.
It’s just the same. When they sat me down to tell me I was going to win the belt and its fixed, but you have to earn it and when they said, Youve been a leader in the locker room and you deserve it, and its incredible to be a part of this start of a new legacy at a time when were literally going through a new legacy OVW is brand new, with Al [Snow] taking over, there are some huge things about to happen.
My new thing is hashtag kiss my belt, since my parents arent supportive, to be able to show Im doing stuff.
Why have these interactions with you had such an effect on homophobic attitudes when other processes have failed? He has a lot of excitement around him and the way he talks, he really gets into it.
The fans get into it, too. We need to put it out there, because we need to make sure the conversation occurs.
Since coming out, he gets the occasional Facebook message from acquaintances who are worried about his mortal soul and his parents have cut off contact, but the response from the wrestling world has been positive.
I work at a psych facility with kids and, while they dont know Im gay, someday they might, and its great because now they can see that gay doesnt mean you have to put on a dress or whatever I beat up people and got the same belt John Cena did.
It was an hour before the show when they told me I was going to win the belt.
The best wrestlers, like the best drag queens, will have both athleticism and a well-developed persona. Propped against a wall was a skull-topped staff.
This article appears in August 15, 2018.
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Showmanship is certainly part of Amons success as a character.
Turns out gay sports clubs are a popular feature of the athletic landscape.
I’ve seen changes on multiple levels, administrators have told us for years they’ve fought to end homophobia in schools, always with little success.
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And that’s just because there tends to be a lot more commitment from some of them, the gays, because they haven’t had any other place to compete in sports.
The difference is that where drag carves out meaning with a sharp blade, wrestling uses a hammer.