How Queer Pro Wrestlers Are Handling America's Anti-LGBTQ+ Heel Turn | Defector
How Queer Pro Wrestlers Are Handling America's Anti-LGBTQ+ Heel Turn | Defector
Pollo del Mar wants to be hated. As a bad guy (or heel) in the NWA—the National Wrestling Alliance, a professional wrestling company owned and operated by the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan (no shit!)—it’s her job to get heat, i.e. the boos and jeers and chants that separate professional wrestling’...
I didnt realize how big a LGBTQ+ presence there was in pro-wrestling.
Yeah, it's something that's really grown in recent years, which is just awesome.
It's much better now than 20 years ago, for sure - the locker room culture these days is a heck of a lot better (but not perfect since there's still a hella lot of Qanon weirdos in NXT).
It's even more noticable in some of the indie promotions. FEST and Enjoy come to mind first. I will watch Edith Surreal any day.
Edith Surreal is pretty rad. Caught her in the main event at Wrestle Queerdom against VENY, and she put on a great show