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WWE Plans to 'Integrate LGBT Characters' Into Programming
NBC News ^ | August 10, 2016 | Jodi Savitz

Posted on 08/11/2016 7:11:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Speaking at a Beyond Sport United event in New York this week, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon said her organization -- best known for its wrestling showdowns -- is committed to LGBT inclusivity.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fabulous; homosexualagenda; lgbt; patpatterson; stephaniemcmahon; wrestling
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To: Harpotoo
They already had a black tag team member come out as gay about a year ago with no ill affect that I can see (cant remember his name though).
Darren Young. Him and Titus O'Neill were tag team partners.
41 posted on 08/11/2016 7:59:17 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: o-n-money

I stopped watching wrestling in the 80s.

Same here ,it was Boring


42 posted on 08/11/2016 8:00:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: o-n-money

I stopped watching wrestling in the 80s. It’s fake now. s/


Funny i think of our so call two party system as just like pro wrestling. Fake since Reagan left in the 80s


43 posted on 08/11/2016 8:01:23 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: C19fan

EEWWWWWWW.


44 posted on 08/11/2016 8:01:45 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: C19fan

The optic of a LGBT getting their ass kicked is too much for the WWE to pass up. People will pay money to see that.


45 posted on 08/11/2016 8:03:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: tophat9000

I seriously wonder if Her Thighness is being trained by Stephanie McMahon’s speaking coach.


46 posted on 08/11/2016 8:03:33 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: C19fan

So maybe they can appeal to the transgender by having one guy ripped the other guy’s nuts off


47 posted on 08/11/2016 8:04:26 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: C19fan
Something the WWE doesn't like to talk about: In the early 1990s, there was a real life scandal involving two openly gay WWE Backstage executives Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin (both were former wrestlers as well.) The two used their positions in the company to sexually harass young wrestlers and exchanged sexual favors for better positions in the company, better pushes, etc. Patterson and Garvin, along with ring announcer Mel Phillips were also involved in sexually abusing young men recruited as "ring boys" to set the the ring and perform other behind the scenes jobs in towns where the then-WWF promoted wrestling cards. All three resigned from the company when the scandal broke, and the WWF reached settlements with the parties involved. Patterson was brought back into the company about a year later, and has been protected by Vinnie Mac ever since, even putting him into the WWE Hall of Fame.

(During his time as an active wrestler, Terry Garvin was billed as the brother of Ron Garvin, but in reality the two were not related.)

48 posted on 08/11/2016 8:06:20 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: C19fan
Pat Patterson was apparently the first openly gay pro wrestler

49 posted on 08/11/2016 8:06:49 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Yup, remember them well. Also Bruno Sammartino when he was at the top of his game, Capt Lou Albano, Chief Jay Strongbow (the SJW's would have a sh!t fit over his schtick), Classy Freddie Blassie, Gorilla Monsoon, The Funk Bros., Ernie "the Big Cat" Ladd, Bobo Brazil. Damn I'm getting old!
50 posted on 08/11/2016 8:10:40 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: C19fan

Yup, that’ll go well.

We will see the first “gotcha in the butt” hold.

Eeeeeuuuuuuu!


51 posted on 08/11/2016 8:21:53 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

They already did this his name was Goldust aka Dustin Rhodes.


52 posted on 08/11/2016 8:31:23 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: C19fan

I refuse to watch anything LGBT. I don’t like crap thrusted in my face.
No pun intended! Series.

What the government is doing to us is unacceptable.


53 posted on 08/11/2016 8:36:30 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Impala64ssa
John "The Golden Greek" Tolos and Los Medicos! Apache Bull Ramos and Black Gordman.

Yes, we are getting old

54 posted on 08/11/2016 8:38:55 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: TexasGator

“It was always fake.”

Oddly enough I am friends (via being an avid weightlifter) with a number of pro-wrestlers, past and present.

A better description is “per-determined.” The athleticism and beatings these guys take is real.


55 posted on 08/11/2016 8:40:45 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I go with that.


56 posted on 08/11/2016 8:55:25 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TheThirdRuffian

However, it is amazing that they usually show no bruises ...


57 posted on 08/11/2016 8:56:28 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TheThirdRuffian

When they slam down on someine theyou always strike the mat first!


58 posted on 08/11/2016 8:58:14 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: C19fan

They’re not your market and they never will be, moron.

This is like when McDonald’s added healthy hipster options. Folks like that don’t shop there.


59 posted on 08/11/2016 9:02:13 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Yup, remember them well. Also Bruno Sammartino when he was at the top of his game, Capt Lou Albano, Chief Jay Strongbow (the SJW's would have a sh!t fit over his schtick), Classy Freddie Blassie, Gorilla Monsoon, The Funk Bros., Ernie "the Big Cat" Ladd, Bobo Brazil. Damn I'm getting old!

Well, I guess I'm old, too, because I also remember all of those guys. I remember a card I went to at the old Philadelphia Arena in the early 1970s. They had a 20 man "Battle Royal", with ten "faces" and ten "heels." Before the start of the match, Ernie Ladd got all of the heels into a huddle to go over the strategy of who they would take out first, second, etc. When the bell rang, Ladd turned around to face the good guys in the other corner. As soon as he did, his fellow heels all grabbed him, and tossed him out of the ring first.

60 posted on 08/11/2016 9:11:02 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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