#EXtreme Championship Wrestling

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Annoying Straight Wrestling Fan on Twitter: Oh My God why the fuck should we care about the lesbian three-way kiss ending a barely non-existent 'story' on Forbidden Door?

Me, A Queer History Nerd Already Fighting The Urge to Create an 'Intro to Professional Wrestling 101' in the Face of a New Hyperfixation, Excellent Specialized Resources, and the Absence of a Comprehensive Overview: Seriously? Hmm...

Me: Well if we take your question in good faith and not just as the whining of a homophobic bigot, I suppose one great reason would stem from the 1996 turn in the Raven & Dreamer ECW feud that caused the first three-way kiss in Wrestling & its fallout:

Beulah (non-Kayfabe was married to Dreamer) left her position as Raven's Valet by telling him she was pregnant by Dreamer (whom she had been enamored of as a teenager but scorned, making her a bit obsessed).

Dreamer took Beulah on as his girlfriend and protected her from seemingly vicious attacks, only for Shane Douglas to reveal to him that Beulah was not only not pregnant, just fake baby-trapping him for his affections, but she was also now cheating on him as well.

Furious, Dreamer demanded to know who, assuming the culprit to be Douglas himself, but Douglas pointed across the ring at Raven's new valet, Kimona Wanalaya (Amazing Bond Girl Name).

Kimona confirmed her guilt and kissed Beulah to the mat to raucous applause. When asked what he wanted to do, Dreamer responded "I'll take 'em both, I'm hardcore!" Before kissing both of them, then pulling them in for a three-way kiss.

Unfortunately this event was heavily censored in most ECW TV releases, with the show cutting right before the first kiss in most markets, and being pulled off the air entirely in the states of Florida and New York, two of ECW's largest markets, right as they were about to launch a major set of new plotlines. By the time the shows were restored weeks had passed. Remember this was all late night cable television already, Extreme Champion Wrestling already had some of its reputation well in hand and the Attitude Era was about to begin for WWF, sex and violence was somewhat part and parcel, but a consensual lesbian kiss and a continued M/F/F three-way relationship was a bridge too far.

Forbidden Door might have been a PPV and it might have been more PG than ECW by modern standards, but never forget they'll come for the sickos, the queers, the deviants, and the pervs first, be it in wrestling or anywhere else and it's all of us or none of us.

Happy Last Day of Stonewall Week.

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ECW ECW ECW!!!

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Masato Tanaka vs Mike Awesome

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"Whatever it is you two have, I wanna see it cured!"

[riotdiva]

Easily one of my favorite ECW moments ever

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[jasvvy]

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Back on my bullshit I guess

[phonyhulkamania]

[maxwelljacobfriedman]

every joke about wrestling being gay bdsm is true

[prawnspine]

Raven is my new gender

When I have dysphoria, I shift into Raven

jk but I wanna be him tho

[blowflyfag]

Pro Wrestling Illustrated: 1995 THE YEAR IN WRESTLING. March 1996

COMPROMISING POSITIONS, PARTS III AND IV

While famous couples were breaking up left and right in Hollywood, love matches were popping up all over in wrestling. Tommy Dreamer loves Luna (although nobody knows if Luna loves Tommy), while referee Bill Alfonso and wrestler Stevie Richards made for a strange twosome.