This is why the right has lost the war on gays and the rest of the LGBTQ+.  The younger demographics are OK and support the LGBTQ+.  This is a “sport”, an event that has an openly gay performer and the crowd is yelling in support of him.    Hugs

Fearsome Beard2 days ago edited

Back in my younger days in the mid 1980s one of my regular play buddies was a pro wrestler. Big muscles, handsome face, beautiful blonde hair, blue eyes, nice bushy porn ‘stache…what wasn’t to like? He was in the closet as far as the sport went but was pretty out in our gay community. He was a lot of fun in bed. He claimed there were a number of other gay wrestlers as well. When I had asked him about it he said of corse there were others, adding “we are just actors after all”.

O-Kei2 days ago

For those who haven’t been following AEW/pro-wrestling in general a few FYIs:

-Despite being openly gay AND Black (technically Mixed,) he hasn’t been stereotyped as either/both as a gimmick, so he hasn’t minced around or creeped on straight guys or the like, nor has there been a “Very Special Episode”-type storyline about being gay and/or Black overcoming the odds. The closest it’s ever come was having Billy Gunn as a manager/teammate who’s infamous for the whole “Billy & Chuck” tag-team whose gimmick WAS being The Ambiguously Gay Duo almost 20 years ago, but none of that’s returned or mentioned.

-Pink has been The Acclaimed’s color (w/o white or black) from the get-go and treated no different than than other tag-team’s colors.

-His (ostensibly) straight tag-partner, “Platinum” Max Caster’s usually the hammier one though as he usually diss raps his way to the ring followed by Bowens yelling, “[Insert City Name]! The Acclaimed! Have Arrived!” followed by their hand gesture of forming “A”s with their fingers then joining them together to “scissor”. After Gunn joined them, Bowens added, “SCISSOR ME, DADDY ASS!” as Gunn’s nickname (not ring name) since his sons are also a tag-team yet Gunn ultimately favors “The Acclaimed” more and said they’re more like his sons than his actual children.

-They literally had a “Scissoring Day” celebration, saying the gesture is one of friendship that can be done with anybody. And the crowd ate. it. up. to the point that besides wearing the shirts, crowd signs/giant fake scissors and the like, the crowd literally chants/sings, “OHHH SCISSOR ME, DADDY!”

-They had a respectably long run as tag-champs though it still felt like it ended too soon.

-AEW has other openly queer wrestlers on its roster such as Nyla Rose (Black-Native bisexual transwoman and former AEW women’s champ,) Sonny Kiss (gay, genderqueer/non-binary, also Black and Native,) Toni Storm (bisexual current women’s champ,) Kiera Hogan (Black queer woman) and Diamante (Latin queer woman) who’re a real-life couple, Abadon (non-binary though once competed for the women’s title) and referee Aubrey Edwards (bisexual woman) who even low-key wore the bisexual colors for Sonny Kiss’s match against Cody Rhodes for the TNT championship (secondary title below AEW World championship) to reflect the historic importance.

The Real Do Something Nice🆕2 days ago

I’ll take positive message wherever they occur. This could be bigger than the Bud-Lite haters.

Yves R. Mektin Franciscan2 days ago

Quite a few wrestlers have posed nude for gay porn publications or websites over the years, and many more (like John Cena, CM Punk, Finn Balor, etc.) have been individually very gay-supportive or have come out as LGBT themselves (especially true among the women wrestlers, most of whom seem very LGBT-supportive).

another_steve Harveyrabbit 🐱2 days ago

The civilized world has to make life unbearable for the Rethug Trumpists. For all rightwing theofascists and their puppets, like Donald Trump.

Make their lives unbearable.

Make the money they rake in from their asshole audiences simply “not worth it.”

Card #ProChoice another_steve2 days ago

If anyone should be forced into a closet away from public perception, it’s them