I am proud to say that I am Scotland s first
openly gay wrestler. It doesn't matter what
I do and who I lie down with, I'm still a
wrestler. If I can make people see that and
be positive in their life that's what matters
to me. I came out to like family and stuff
and then I did a YouTube video. I'm going
to be the wrestler that I want to be. I did
it for the reason of people need to know that
it's ok to be who you are and I got a lot
of support from the wrestlers, I got a lot
of support from family and I got a lot of
support from everyone but when it came to
the fans there was a few weeks of bad bad
bad bad messages. Sometimes it wouldn't even
be just it would just be a short sentence
of 'wish you were dead', 'you shouldn't be
in wrestling', 'your parents hate you . The
worst one for me is 'you're a failure for
who you are and what you do.' That one stung
because at the time I�was really proud of
what I was doing. When you look back at it
it still actually really hurts. It just baffles
me that some people haven't managed to progress
going past live and let live. As much as you
look at wrestling and you go 'it's flamboyant,
there's loads of glitter, there's men in spandex'
you sit down and go 'wrestling's pretty gay'.
It's actually quite it's still a very masculine
sport, it's still a very masculine world.
Bringing the drag queens to the ring all started
with my partner at the time. She started coming
into the ring with me, getting involved in
matches and all these different things, and
then eventually you'd have like four or five
of them coming to the ring with me. Letting
her train meant the world to her. It started
about a brief conversation in a living room
to walking to the ring together, hand in hand,
battering people. So many people made so many
positive comments and people would send me
messages saying 'I came out because of you.
I came out to my parents because of you. As
soon as I kind of figured out who I was as
a person and what was going to make me the
happiest I could be in my life that was that
moment where I went 'I am a gay man' and I've
not looked back.
