IMPACT Wrestling Star Jai Vidal recently spoke with Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald on a number of topics such as finding out he was the first openly gay male wrestler to sign with IMPACT and how he's knocking down barriers so that other gay male wrestlers and lesbian wrestlers will hopefully get into IMPACT Wrestling as well without any hesitation.
Jai Vidal said:
“I didn’t find out until the morning that I was doing the interview with OutSports. I was talking to the Head of Media Relations, Ross at IMPACT, and he was like, ‘By the way, you’re the first openly gay male wrestler to sign with IMPACT.’ It really didn’t hit me. ‘Okay, that’s cool.’ It’s not just cool, it’s groundbreaking. The first openly gay male wrestler to sign with IMPACT. Now, I’m knocking down barriers so that other gay male wrestlers and lesbian wrestlers and so on and so forth will hopefully get into IMPACT without a second thought or second look.”
Jai Vidal also spoke about having multiple LGBTQ people on the IMPACT roster and getting to work with a talent such as Gisele Shaw as well as being able to make history alongside her.
Jai Vidal said:
“Especially because I do feel, as someone part of the LGBTQ community, that we all bring something different to the table. You can have more than one LGBTQ person on your television show and it be extremely diverse. That’s what I love about IMPACT. They’ve had multiple LGBTQ people on the roster and each one brings something different to the table. Along with that, I get to be beside Gisele Shaw, that’s awesome. Now, you have me styling her, she already looked pretty, now she’s looking like a bombshell. We’re like peanut butter and jelly. We just mesh together so well and bounce so well off each other. All that chemistry you see on camera is the chemistry behind the scenes. I love and am honored to be making history alongside her.”
You can check out Jai Vidal's comments in the video below. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
