Luchadores gays

Wrestling may be choreographed, but there are a lot of egos and jealousy involved. O mejor. It will stream on Prime Video Sept. His next knee surgery will keep him out of the ring for at least nine months. Openly gay, cross-dressing luchador has fought battles in and out of the arena.

If anything, the biggest problem in the early days was with some of his colleagues. Victory members can see the movie early on Sept. An artist in more ways than one, he explains how he designs his own ring gear, often incorporating the flag of whichever country he is touring and never wears the same outfit more than twice.

I have fans of both sexes and all ages. Cassandro, the new biopic directed by Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams, stars Gael García Bernal as the eponymous Mexican-American fighter who changed the course of Mexico's beloved lucha libre. Mexico is often viewed as the home of machismo, and though times are changing — Mexico City legalized gay marriage in — homophobia still exist in everyday society.

Estamos en el y la orientación sexual de alguien no es un problema, aquí un listado con algunos luchadores que han confesado abiertamente su preferencia. La lucha libre es un deporte popular en el mundo y existen distintos tipos de luchadores y luchadoras que son parte de la comunidad LGBT+.

Cassandro is open about the alcohol and drug addictions he suffered until Today, Cassandro takes consolation in San Judas Tadeo and the Virgin of Guadalupe and wears a crucifix around his neck. Like many other recovering addicts, he seems to have overcome his demons and made peace with the hand that life has dealt him.

He proudly displays a ring jacket he had made for a recent string of shows in Canada. As elsewhere in the entertainment industry, the unorthodox lifestyle and emotional necessity of having to get up for a show each night has led many pro wrestlers into boozy, druggy temptation.

Cassandro is one of the best-known exoticos — cross dressing luchadors, or wrestlers — in Mexico, with nearly a quarter-century of high-flying grappling under his belt and a resume that includes tours of the United States, Europe and Japan. He was won acclaim for his Spanish and English work.

Women will yell at me to come over and kiss their husbands, which I do. It became a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to the advent of television in the s. The classic image of the masked luchador is now as emblematic of Mexico as tequila, mariachis and Day of the Dead — seen everywhere from soccer crowds to Independence Day parades.

Trish Long El Paso Times. All luchadors look amazing when they step in the ring, but exoticos tend to turn it up a notch. Now 41, he has been wrestling professionally since he was Although he performs around the world for various promotions, Cassandro is a proud proponent of the dare-devil Lucha style — wrestlers of generally smaller stature than their U.

Lucha Libre, is of course, the spectacular variant of pro wrestling that originated in the s in Mexico, where the majority of performers don superhero-style masks and closely guard their true identities. In an April 15, , article for the Times, Paul Imison interviewed the wrestler about his career:.

Exoticos are male wrestlers who dress in drag. Campeón Cassandro fue el primer luchador en México que demostró que un hombre gay podía ser tan buen luchador como uno heterosexual. A respected veteran, Cassandro usually wins such bouts, but he did lose a Hair vs Hair match to the son of the legendary Santo, known as El Hijo del Santo, in Los Angeles in He has seven pins in his left leg from surgery, he has a dislocated shoulder, and at the time of this interview he was about to see a doctor about surgery on the other knee.