It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Sting!

Last weekend marked a historic time for the professional wrestling. No, it wasn’t me live tweeting SummerSlam, although that was nothing short of revolutionary. What was so historic was the news that the WWE, the major league of wrestling, has its first openly gay wrestler.

Meet Darren Young. I say meet because I’m assuming that of the 12 people that read this blog only one or two give wrestling the occasional 15-second pause when flipping the channels Monday night. And none of my Back Yarders watch enough wrestling to see a lower mid card talent like Young who, along with tag team partner Titus O’Neil, are stuck in a glut of uninspiring tag team talents who aren’t deemed necessary enough to get a match on a PPV. But hey, there’s always WWE Superstars.
Not sure what channel it airs on though, or what day.

But for one day the full focus of the WWE universe was not on John Cena, CM Punk or The Rock. It was on a member of the Prime Time Players who opted to test the durability of the WWE’s Reality Era by telling us all something honest about himself. It was a brave act even in a time enlightened and liberal enough to earn Young universal praise amongst his peers on Twitter because, when the fanfare dies down, the locker room will still have its inherit bravado and tough guy nature.

Young will be tested on the other side of the curtain as well. He will most certainly be pushed and packaged differently now and his sexual orientation will be used in dialogue, if not storytelling altogether. Here’s just hoping they don’t have some wrestler play a hackneyed homophobic heel. But this is Vince McMahon so that’s probably coming once they run out of any ideas that don’t suck. Just please, no Billy and Chuck reunions.