What made significantly less sense was when WWE started taking their feud in a lesbian direction for no particular reason, except that Sable and Wilson had an additional Playboy shoot together not too long down the line. Regardless of this demure reaction, WWE and Total Divas other producers used the moment as often as they could in advertising, trying to milk it for whatever it was worth. Apparently, Marie’s master plan was to embarrass Wilson by tricking her into a sexual encounter, which she would then air at Armageddon 2003, barely. Even if Rikishi had worn a more convincing costume, the bait and switch was ridiculous enough to leave fans flabbergasted, shocked that WWE would resort to something so stupid. It feels appropriate to kick off this list with one of the main reasons people believe WWE will never handle lesbian issues properly.

Girl power: The rise in girls' wrestling | Girls' wrestling is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the country, with young athletes finding their power and earning respect on the mat. If you are looking for other lesbian wrestleheads, join HER, the best lesbian dating site in the world, to find a cutie to watch the next AEW match with you. Charlie Morgan’s promo in which she came out publicly in the ring at a Pro Wrestling EVE event is forever immortalized for its raw reality and ability to usher new LGBTQ fans into a welcoming wrestling space. First thing first, on the February 7, 2002 episode of SmackDown, the then-relatively new Billy and Chuck challenged Stacy Keibler and Torrie Wilson to a pose-off.

Martinez is currently the Women’s World Champion for Ring of Honor, one of the foremost independent wrestling companies in the United States, which has undergone something of a reboot after its recent purchase by AEW president Tony Khan.

I’ve always had the LGBTQ community behind me, but now that I’m actually out there and pushing the agenda more, the fanbase and the workers have really rallied behind me, because now they have a voice and I’m not shy to talk about anything, whereas maybe others are.Another hard-hitting iconic Black and indigenous lesbian wrestler who is becoming a household name is Nyla Rose. In the one incident where TNA tried, on the other hand, they decided to get extremely weird with it. Now, in the last five years, is when I have felt safe to be able to be like, “Okay, I’m a wrestler, but let’s push this agenda a little bit more. Given that the entire point of being a lesbian is that a woman has no romantic interest in men, this seems a little counterintuitive, and yet in the world of popular culture, semantics like these are a little bit less important. Sue “Tex” Green began wrestling in 1969 and had to keep her lesbian identity a secret throughout her career.

Little Soldier's head coach, Tim Haneberg said, "She is someone that has broken the glass ceilings and opened the doors for those other girls. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. From in-depth storytelling on the fight for LGBTQ+ rights to intimate profiles of queer cultural vanguards, it’s a platform for all of the bold, stylish, and rebellious ways that LGBTQ+ people are reshaping our world every day. com/static/572acf1062cd94f0536532bb/t/5d0ab5ebc0c0d90001266364/1560983020028/WhyWomensWrestling-Steiner. In and out of the ring, Stratus and James created one of the most compelling angles any two women in sports entertainment have been able to enact, all based on James developing a Single White Female-style crush on the 7-time WWE Women’s Champion.For as much as there was to complain when Torrie Wilson smooched Sable out of nowhere, it didn’t hold a candle to the bizarre antics Wilson would get into with Dawn Marie. Also just as had happened the first time, Paige calmly pushed Mendes away and said she didn’t reciprocate those kinds of feelings. She said that she wants to use her platform to show LGTBQ+ fans that there is always a space for them in wrestling. I wish it was that way when I came out, or whenever I started because I would have never had to hide who I was.