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Stuart Forward
Recent graduate living in Leeds. Companion of the Caribbean, obscure books, beer and things people don't give a toss about. Aspiring publisher. Wannabe Belgian. @StuForward
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Growing up, I had a love. Each Friday darkness, in the absence of a social life, 11 year old me would settle down in front of the TV with my dad to view WWF (now WWE) Raw is War. At the second it was the height of youthful masculinity. All the hard kids in school would observe it without flop, then come in on Monday morning to clothesline-from-hell the rest of us and talk shop. In a moment before social media, where dial-up internet was at the forefront of technology, our weekly dose of man on man action, followed by the sneaky free 10 minutes of Channel Babestation once the parents had gone to bed, granted boasting rights for the week, and helped to construct our LAD mentality.
It’s only when you travel to these survive shows, full to the brim with sweaty middle-aged men and their children, baying for blood and tits, that you feel truly part of the manly mob. The crowd would go up up as one to cheer Stone Cold, curse the establishment heels, and mo
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When we first heard about a gay wrestling club in San Francisco we were like, those San Franciscans. Of course you have a unique club where dudes wear spandex and roll around trying to dominate each other with their forceful thighs. Then it occurred to us, isn’t that all wrestling clubs? Why does it matter that this one’s gay? Turns out gay sports clubs are a popular movie of the athletic landscape.
We called up Roger Brigham, a coach at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Wrestling Club to question about the continued being of gay sports clubs in an increasingly lgbtq+ friendly world.
VICE: Execute we still need “gay sports clubs,” is it naive to assume that in a modern society all clubs should be gay friendly?
Roger Brigham: Yes it is innocent. There are still significant barriers to overcome. We’ve had this discussion many times with different clubs, because different clubs market themselves differently. Some place the fact that they’re gay right up front, where others you acquire to dig a short-lived bit further. We ask for to put it out there, because we desire to make sure the conversation occurs. We don’t want somebody to be in a club and find out that peop While searching Amazon Prime recently, I was pleasantly surprised to uncover, of all things, episodes of Memphis wrestling in the video library. But there was even more content available for any connoisseur of both fantastic wrestling and bad wrestling: a collection of death matches between Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, some truly awful-looking wrestling movies I’d never heard of, and something called, Professional Gay Wrestling. My first ask was, “Is this Unharmed for Work?” But my second question was “Why lgbtq+ professional wrestling?” (Or “professional gay wrestling”, as it’s called, which led me back to my first question). I mean, if lgbtq+ men want to view guys with great bodies and revealing outfits grapple with each other, there are a number of other wrestling promotions out there – specifically, all of them. Let’s face it – wrestling is a very gay sport, and has been since the days of the ancient Greeks. Those guys used to wrestle naked, which is just about the gayest thing two men can do short of having sex with each other. Which they also did. Actually watching PGW raised even more questions. First of all, announcer Bruce R Professional Gay Wrestling