Straight Wrestler Hudson Taylor a Champion for Our Gay Rights
Another straightie who is fighting for our team! I love it when hetero celebrities show their support and help fight for our rights. You can never have too many straight allies. And here comes a guy, with no special agenda or reason for choosing the gay issue, HUDSON TAYLOR is out fighting for our rights! He feels a responsibility to help right a wrong. A champion wrestler, he is an academic All American with his eye on law school and a possible future political career.
OUTSPORTS reports It's his outspoken support for gay rights, though, that makes him unique in the athletic world, where straight allies are few and far between. Not many athletes would wear a Human Rights Campaign sticker on their headgear in competition.
"For me and my generation, [LGBT rights] is a pressing issue," said Taylor, 23, a native of New Jersey. "I believe that whatever history I'm a part of, I'm responsible for. If I feel something is unjust or unequal, I feel a responsibility to do something about it."
His passion for gay rights is borne more out of righting a wrong than of having a lot of gay friends. The two maids of honor for his upcoming wedding are lesbians in a relationship, but he said he does not have a close gay male friend.
He also does not know of any gay collegiate wrestlers (though he has heard some names) and said he was not sure if a gay wrestler would be accepted. When he gave an interview to a wrestling website that mention his passion for gay rights, he was labeled gay on a discussion forum.
Read the full article about Hudson and his bride-to-be Lia Alexandra Mandaglio at OUTSPORTS.
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