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There was the larger group experience of sharing a space and watching the same performance, but each person I looked at was experiencing the evening in a different way. His character transformed from Reverend Stu to Amon, Demon Marquis of Hell, he became heavyweight champion… and he came out.

Perry explained that he had technically come out at a young age, but it was always theoretical.

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Sign up. It’s all perfectly spelled out for the audience, and, despite this clear articulation of good and evil, the audience shows no hesitation about crossing into the gray area and championing the heels — sometimes for giving a good show, sometimes, in the case of wrestler Billy O, for being a hot guy writhing around in his underwear.

Amon, Perry’s demon character, lords over a team of minions called “The Void,” whose existence annihilates any sense of fair play.

Roger Brigham: Yes it is naive. Over the next few weeks you saw Reverend Stu tweak out a little more, and now he’s fully possessed.”

To clarify, it’s Perry himself making headlines for being the first openly-gay heavyweight champion, and not Amon, who as a demon, thrives not on relationships, but acting out his evil impulses.

Being evil also means there are no rules: The heels cheat, and the babyfaces play fair.

I’ve met the ‘Drag Race’ queens like Eureka and Cameron and the things they say about how they feel when they walk through the curtain and how I feel when I walk through the curtain — it’s a show.

“My background is theater.


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After I came out I never really noticed any differences in how they treated me.

Why are wrestlers so accepting?

I noticed when I wrestled in school and college that no matter how psyched I was to dislike opponents, after wrestling them I always had to respect them.

gay guys fighting

Identical twins with eerily synchronized cheers. The UFC has characters, rivalries. I’m telling them things that have worked in my life and what the reality is. We need to put it out there, because we need to make sure the conversation occurs. Literature nerds love to dissect the elaborately-detailed, naked fireside wrestling scene in DH Lawrence’s “Women in Love” (Passed off by Lawrence as two good friends larking about), so when I asked Stu Perry, the new champion, about it, his self-awareness was refreshing:

“I’ve always said you have to be a little gay to be a wrestler,” said Perry, who performs as Amon, Demon Marquis of Hell when he is not working as a supervisor at Uspiritus, a residential psychiatric facility for kids.

I saw a preschooler standing on a chair, waving a tiny replica of a heavyweight champion belt. Perry told me that “Al is all about characters and that’s why he’s pushed us [to develop them]. There are still significant barriers to overcome. The clubs pull together a critical mass of athletes and provide a safe environment and that gives many the confidence to come out.

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. And if anybody tells you [otherwise], they’re wrong,’ and the guys back here [OVW wrestlers] — no one cares. “It’s sweaty guys in underwear picking each other up … it’s pretty gay.”

Becoming a Heel

Once again, wrestling is in.

And I’ve been working on my Halloween costume all summer.