NCAA’s first publicly gay wrtler has had ups and downs - Outsports

Contents:

• THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• CM PUNK – ‘SUPPORT TRANS KIDS. SUPPORT GAY & LBIAN RIGHTS’
• NCAA’S FIRST PUBLICLY GAY WRTLER HAS HAD UPS AND DOWNS

THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY

And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11. There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said. It was only a uple weeks after startg to date his boyiend that Stevenson High School’s gay star wrtler, Dylan Geick, cid the closet wasn’t for him.

When he me out surprised some people that this ele wrtler was gay.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

He was a nference nner-up as a sophomore.

“It jt so happened that all of those kids, even those who maybe had a homophobic view before were able to see past that, and are still my iends, and we are much closer even now, ” Geick told his school newspaper, The Statman.

CM PUNK – ‘SUPPORT TRANS KIDS. SUPPORT GAY & LBIAN RIGHTS’

Sce that day, Geick hasn’t heard a sgle homophobic ment om his teammat. Even his petors have stayed away om harassg him about beg gay. The entire regular season had gone by whout an cint, but headg to the state meet a petg wrtler tracked down Geick’s Instagram acunt and cid to leave a bg msage about Geick beg gay.

Geick ma his beg gay pretty clear last June when he posted this Instagram picture om pri (that’s Geick on the left, while his boyiend, Grant, is plantg the kiss):.

Sce then he’s been unabashed about beg gay and sharg photos of himself and Grant, cludg this post om his homeg last fall, wh his boyiend by his si:. Now Geick hop that by sharg his story he n help other gay athlet feel like they are not alone. “I really didn’t know any gay wrtlers.

NCAA’S FIRST PUBLICLY GAY WRTLER HAS HAD UPS AND DOWNS

The first thg I Googled was ‘NCAA gay wrtlg’ and that was the article I found. Wrtlg fans often like to remisce about how awome everythg was back the Attu Era, but one thg that was cidly unol was how pro wrtlg ma LGBTQ wrtlers stay the closet while g kayfabe gay romance storyl for shock value or havg a wrtler "play gay" to draw heat. In fact, when Goldt turned face, WWE ma a big al out of announcg his heterosexualy, while Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo pretend to marry 2002, then stopped the ceremony to say "jt kiddg, ha ha, we're not gay, eher.