Bob The Drag Queen might not be a name familiar to wrestling fans, but he is one of the premier drag performers in the country and he’s a huge pro wrestling fan. Bob has appeared on the HBO series We’re Here, as well as being the season 8 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Recently, he talked about how wrestling spoke to him as a child, and why he was emotionally invested in Mick Foley. You can read highlights of his interview with StraightioLab below:
On pro wrestling speaking to him as a kid: “Wrestling is inherently kind of gay. There are some really great, iconic wrestlers who spoke to my gayness of a young child. Goldust is a really great example. He was a wrestler named Dustin Rhodes. It was common for a wrestler to leave and then come back as a completely different person. I mean, a completely different person. Goldust was this wrestler that was basically, I don’t even want to say he was acting gay, the whole bit was…he was never gay, he had girlfriends. He was kind like Prince. He was this extremely effeminate straight man who was wrestling. Tell me this is not [drag queen] Gottmik. Tell me this person would not be on [alt-drag reality show] Dragula. Goldust was insane. Goldust was a really wild, revelatory moment for me as a young gay person watching wrestling.”
His emotional attachment to Mick Foley: “I was really emotionally attached to wrestling as a young person. My favorite wrestler was Mick Foley, who I was obsessed with. Mick Foley was a schleppy-looking, average run of the mill guy, but he was the everyman of the WWE. He was like, ‘if I can do it, you can do it.’ If Mick Foley can be one of the most famous entertainment athletes, then I could f**king do anything. When he quit wrestling, I literally cried. I had it on VHS, I would play it every morning before school and cry every morning before school.”
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