Darren Young comes out
 

<font color=goldenrod>This was in the 100,000 replies thread, but honestly it deserves its own thread. Someone came out in an industry that still has homophobic stigma even in 2013. This is big news, and good on Darren for feeling comfortable enough to come out.

I do hope WWE don't turn this into a storyline. But, I've long thought the PTP would work as a face team and I think that might to start going in motion now.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/15/darren...superstar-gay/

WWE superstar Darren Young just dropped a bombshell, telling TMZ, he's gay ... and no, this isn't part of the act.

Darren was at LAX Wednesday when we asked whether a gay wrestler could succeed in WWE, and Darren laughed, saying, "Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy. I'm very happy."

For the record, Darren is now the first openly gay wrestler ever at WWE ... and the first headlining wrestler ever to come out while still signed to a major promotion.

Other pro wrestlers have been rumored to be gay, but that's it ... just rumors.

Bottom line: this is big, big news. For all its chauvinism and testosterone-driven bravado, coming out in WWE is tantamount to coming out in the NFL.

Of course, wrestling is a little different, particularly because of how physical it is, and how little clothing is involved -- but Darren is completely unfazed. Watch the video to hear why.</font>

Well Pat Patterson is open if you want to count him. Obviously he's not on that active roster, but if I recall he was openly gay during his career.

Regardless, thats dope of him. I imagine it takes a lot of courage to do something like that, especially in that type of business. Good on him, I support him, and it by no means affects my feelings on his hilarious shenanigans with PTP.

good for him. glad he felt comfortable enough to do that. but you can rest assured he will be saddled with a gay gimmick now.

OJ was openly bi in the WWE too, yeah ok bi =/= gay but its halfway close.

He will probably get a push now.

This isn't legit until Ryan Clark reports on it. Can't wait to see the link on the bottom.

Darren Young full taint pics at coming out party!!!!! Woah!!!!

Pat Patterson is openly gay, but when he was an active member of the roster, I don't think it was known to the fans. But either way, big respect to Darren Young. It can't be easy to come out in this business where homosexuals are somehow seen as less manly than heterosexuals. Being black is enough to stereotype you in professional wrestling (Crime Tyme, Shelton's mama). Being gay is just a double whammy. Let's just hope HHH doesn't make some bad joke at his expense, like when he compared Lillian Garcia to a horse.

Good for him.

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Good for you Father

Well there you have it, they were looking for a black American to push, now they can one up it, a black Gay American.

Zeb should cut an amazing promo using this as his material.

I don't understand how a guy can be gay, who in their right mind doesn't like titties? Anyway, good for him.

Savior is my jesus.

he said Gay and happy though.

Yeah, I watched the video again and saw his conviction. This is definitely him coming out.


Good for him.

Sweet. YMCA Gimmick. The "YOUNG MAN!" opening fits too. Book it WWE.

Good for him. I'm sure a lot of people are waiting for the Hulkster to release a grainy video of him and Brutus Beefcake from the early 90's to prove he was covering this ground years ago.

My friend said instead of being just a jobber, he is a "blowjobber."

Good for him though. I'm sure it isn't easy.

Glad he's happy and doesn't have to hide who he is. Still think he's awful though.

I care about this slightly less than I care about his Coke vs Pepsi preference.

I wonder what the Ultimate Warrior thinks about this?

He really is the Bizarro Cena isn't he? His boyfriend will look like Nikki Bella somehow... :shifty:

Cody will be next.

Good for him that he was comfortable enough to make the announcement.

Chris Kanyon would be proud!

Either this or job security.

He's never getting fired now.

Hasn't Orlando Jordan been openly gay for quite some time? Fairly certain he got into trouble for bringing like 17 year old boys on the road with him or something.

Wow, I'm pretty surprised. I really hope he doesn't get stuck with a terrible gay storyline/gimmick.

Heh, WWE's already released a statement.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/wwe-releas...young-26140515

Apparently, they're going to be using him in the Be A Star campaign. Makes sense.

Good for him, I don't really care either way and I hope that it doesn't hinder his career but I'll forget all about this in a day or two.

When Orlando Jordan was openly gay/bi everyone just seemed to see it as kind of gross and it seemed to be part of the reason for him leaving. Now that gay is more newsworthy and relevant, all of a sudden it's a celebration.

Step in the right direction but a little transparent IMO.

I eagerly await Darren Young's new "Man's Man" gimmick

I just hope they don't shove him in our face.

What I would do is have Titus turn on him, and be an anti-gay heel. He would be over in less than a month.

Darren Young has never weirded anyone out, and something tells me he never will. Orlando Jordan makes people uncomfortable. This was a wrestling segment, not a scene from something on the Out! channel.


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Well, when Billy & Chuck turned face that worked for a bit....

Well, his TNA persona was way over the top. I was talking about his WWE run and I don't think he did anything close to that then.

And who cares, anyhow? Heterosexuality is thrown in people's faces on a daily basis in every tv show, movie, book, and advertisement in existence.

John Cena released a statement of support and revealed his older brother is gay.

We should take bets on how long it takes WWE to turn this into a storyline

2 weeks.

Next Raw

Congrats to Darren Young. millions of dollars.....millions of dollars.....

Good for him. I still believe that it was taken out of context.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Darren Young the gay, I respect him for he honest</p>&mdash; The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) <a href="https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/statuses/368106249809707008">August 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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How long until a smark crowd chants "You Suck Dick!!!" at him??

lol @ "WWE-releas...Young" being the shortened url. I almost thought we had a major incident on our hands.

I remember when Kanyon tried to say WWE released him for being gay. I didn't think Kanyon was that great. I don't think Young is that great. He just guaranteed himself some good job security though.

Good. Fucking hate when people say this and that shit. It doesn't matter. Now he should get a push trying to chase Cena "Come on bro, we look the same, lets be one" or some shit. Really fucking creepy.

Pointless Angle at Summerslam

Pointing Angle at Bound for Glory

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Why would he have a WWE mic at Bound for Glory?

Ratings?

A WWE mic showing up in TNA could be the biggest moment in the history of our sport.

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Happy?

Much better.

Honestly I don't see them turning this into an angle, rather I just see them pushing him as the face of the Be a Star thing. The way to present this is exactly the way he went about it in the interview: "Yeah, I'm gay. Big deal. Got any chips?"

yo, I love pointing gimmicks, I didn't notice Angle utilized it

10 years later on the "Rise and Fall of TNA" DVD set:

Triple H: We knew they were serious when they dropped a WWE microphone in the trash on a live episode of Impact.

*cut to video footage*

Matt Striker: This is what I think of the WWE announce booth!

I bet you love Sin Cara

Incidentally a WWE microphone on Impact would be a lot more significant than "that black guy from that one tag team is gay."

Sin Cara, el pointo loco, garbage sifter. I approve

CNN is reporting it now

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/showbi...html?hpt=hp_t2

I know, right?

How so?

Been thinking, and this is the smartest thing Young has ever done. He bought himself at least a couple years of being employed by WWE, imagine the bad press they would get if they fired the first openly active gay wrestler in the company.

Smart smart man.

"I am gay. I am very happy"


It's just me being silly. What if he was fooling around and now is in a tough spot? He had a past relationship with Tamina. It's just stupid.

Yeah, that would be like the Christopher Street Connection from Jersey All Pro Wrestling. As a current near-jobber, Young really has nothing to lose by coming out. I'm sure WWE will assign him more BE A STAR promotional work, if not more ring victories.

In all fairness, chances are he had a number of threesomes where Tamina was smoking two sausages at once and then being double parked in the same parking stall.

props to him for coming out.

Fair fucking play to him for coming out.

The thing is though that in this day and age this really shouldn't be news.

This is so lame.

Awesome.

On another note, its really awesome to see that a lot of TPWW is so positive with regards to this news. I mean that sincerely. I'm an extremely tolerant guy and I run into dickheads who are so arrogant with their opinions about homosexuality (you're not a dickhead because you disagree; you're a dickhead because your opinion is based off of antiquated views or religious babble).

I <3 you guys.

Well, nice to see that Darren Young is taking one for the te... uh, throwing himself on a swor... becoming a martyr (good, that won't work as an unintentional pun) so that they don't have to publicize anyone more "vital".

I mean, I'm sure there is belief that it's so much nicer for WWE that they can throw their "token gay guy" chips behind a tag team jobber for this pub instead of somone making a huge deal about it in the middle of the next time they decide to push Ryback and hoping it doesn't hurt buyrates. Pretty sure there still has to be some brass in WWE and/or sponsors who still do give a crap about such a non-issue.

Now we just need Young to confirm that he is also Cena. :shifty:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I respect <a href="https://twitter.com/DarrenYoungWWE">@DarrenYoungWWE</a>'s decision to come out and am happy to see the support from the WWE Universe.</p>&mdash; Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) <a href="https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/statuses/368343314468450304">August 16, 2013</a></blockquote>
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I bet vince would talk the most shit about him

lmao behind closed doors Vince is probably talkin the most shit, hell yeah.

It's kinda sad that we're too cynical to believe Vince.

Well, he did fake his death in a limousine accident and once tried to sacrifice his daughter to The Lord of Darkness.

He also is the guy who ran the show through 25+ years of "queer heels".

As a gay kid, it pretty much just reinforced my fear of coming out when an arena full of people cheered for Billy & Chuck saying "We're not gay!"

I felt the same way when the people booed the Gobbeldy Gooker

I've heard a few podcasts of former writers stating that Vince loves to rip on people (especially Paul Heyman) so I wouldn't be surprised if vince does it behind closed doors to HHH or someone.

I just think the whole thing is weird. I mean... do you think Darren Young told the camera guy, or the camera guy was already his buddy to ask that question? Seems like a goofy question, but a good way of making it a story.

It HAD to be planned, don't you think?

It's a work!

Possibly, though not necessarily. Sometimes you just wait for a good opportunity to come out.

Everything is a work!

I actually liked Guru Daves post about it being taken out of context and chuckled picturing him trying to explain to Vince after the story broke. Like a piss poor sitcom.

I do suspect this, actually.

EVERYTHING

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I think Vince is genuine in his response. If he's worked with Pat Patterson for this long, I don't think he's spending too much time dwelling on Darren Young. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if he legit didn't give a shit.

His revelation to the TMZ guy was kind of strange though. It would be kind of messed up if Darren Young was just fucking around with him and ended up having to go with it b/c of the response he got.

Darren and his boyfriend.

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