AEW's Nyla Rose on Being Her Most Authentic Self in a World That Fights Her Trans Existence
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tvguide.comDouble or Nothing in May. "For someone like myself, a trans woman of color, to be one of the top stars in the company, that's absolutely unheard of."Just seven years ago, out and proud LGBTQ wrestlers were virtually nonexistent in mainstream wrestling.
What little representation there was had been relegated to offensive storylines like WWE's trainwreck wedding between wrestlers Billy and Chuck, which was heavily maligned by GLAAD.
However, when WWE's Darren Young came out in 2013, becoming the industry's first openly gay active wrestler, he opened the floodgates for others like Hall of Famer Pat Patterson, Sonya DeVille, Shayna Baszler, Jake Atlas, Paige, and more to publicly embrace their LGBTQ identities in a way they couldn't before..
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