A professional wrestler has come out as gay and said he tried to ‘cure’ his homosexuality.
Mike Parrow, a 34-year-old wrestler from Orlando, Florida came out as gay in a new interview.
He tells Gay Star News: “I’ve always known I’m gay… That was never a question in my mind.”
The wrestler, who is 6’4″ and 300 pounds, says he went to Catholic school and came from a small New York town.
“The only exposure I saw of any gay culture was extremely effeminate and that was what was on TV. I’m not like Jack on Will and Grace, so I’m not gay,” he adds.
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He says he kept his sexuality a secret for years, instead trying to focus on “manly stuff”.
“I played football and did manly stuff. It wasn’t because I was gay. Those were the things I gravitate to – competitive stuff.”
After trying to date women, he says he was “kind of mean to some women” and he wishes he could take it back.
The 34-year-old goes on to say he had bad experiences dating men in his late 20s.
He says he was called “fat” and “ugly” and that he was accused of being a “closet case”.
“Gay men can be the meanest, cruellest people you’ve ever met in your life”, he goes on to say.
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