You know when you heard that tune during The Attitude Era that something wild was about to go down with Mae Young and Moolah. Now, decades later, the defiant spirits embodying that openness and desire for visibility among wrestling’s lesbian community refuse to keep their identities in the shadows. Great is our new, extremely original listicle series where we take a break from snark and negativity to focus on the positive and list eight of our favorite examples of something great from pro wrestling. The strength she exhibits inside the squared circle carries over into her personal life, where she is equally confident and uncompromising, especially since publicly coming out as lesbian in 2019.

Nicole mixed it up in Missile Dropkick Wrestling Association and Delaware County Championship Wrestling. The movement by the LGBTQ community was centered on the desire not to be shunned for their differences but to be accepted as part of the fabric of society.Whether she’s stepping into the ring to dish out punishment or using her power as a well-suited official to do the same, Sonya Deville’s presence within WWE speaks to more than your average pro wrestling fan.

By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. One of the more beloved figures in the independent wrestling world, Kirsch got a huge boost by appearing on AEW Dark earlier this year. The adult films she partook in included both male partners and female partners who she was on-screen with. I feel like there’s really a sense in the AEW women’s division that now you can get down to business and do serious work and really be yourselves.But MIG bust onto many people’s radar at Paris Is Bumping: Solid Gold ‘21 as Haus of Atari’s Lil Atari. Kinney’s is the kind of passion needed not just to succeed in wrestling but also to inspire those watching, craving a figure in which they can see themselves. A famous moment of Deville at Miami Pride that aired on WWE’s reality show Total Divas has become somewhat of a rallying point for LGBTQ people on social media. I couldn’t say, “hey, I’m a lesbian wrestler too,” because I had to be safe from the fans and in the locker rooms.

So that’s what I hope to see, to see the change so we don’t have to have this conversation in a year or so. Though the LGBTQ pro wrestling movement has shed light on many LGBTQ identities, there are still very few out trans masculine or trans men grapplers. And when those ears didn’t understand or ignored what they were being told, LGBTQ people yet again proved that they don’t need them to build their own spaces within the field. Obviously, still existing in the midst of a global pandemic complicated things when different regions of the globe afforded different amounts of in-ring time to its performers.Matt Cage is an independent wrestler known for his work in various independent promotions in the USA such as IWA Mid-South, Dragon Gate USA, Chikara and many others.

But there is no denying that the seeds on undeniability Parker and Green planted are now being harvested by today’s growing population of out, proud lesbian wrestlers. The Northeast Championship Wrestling regular brought their fire to the pro wrestling ring in the New England area in 2021.

But I think that to continue to claim something that's not true is just continuing a streak dishonesty and I don't want that. In addition to her singles work, she and her sister Delmi Exo are also a tag team known as the Sea Stars.