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Originally Posted by Cool King
I remember reading about the gay backlash of Billy & Chuck's wedding when it happened.
Personally, I never saw anything wrong with making Rico a heel because of it all. I think it all worked out perfectly. It just all made sense. It was a good storyline.
It's stuff like GLAAD's reaction to it all that I hate when it comes to stuff like that. Rico was never actually gay by the way, he was just flamboyant at times and it was just insinuated that he was gay because of it.
GLAAD were fine with Rico and the insinuation that he was gay until he turned heel and it just came across to me that GLAAD's reaction to it all was saying "Gay people can't be bad. All gay people are good. If you imply that a gay person is bad, then you're homophobic".
Bad gay people do exist and also, it's a fictitious character that's part of a storyline on a TV show.
It wasn't like the WWE created the storyline to mock or ridicule homosexuality. They built a storyline around the insinuation from fans that Billy, Chuck and Rico were all gay. In the world of kayfabe, Rico knew that they all weren't gay but he knew the fans thought they were, so he exploited it to get what he wanted but he knew Billy & Chuck would crack at the wedding, so he had 3 Minute Warning appear to punish Billy & Chuck for ruining his plans.
Whatever though, maybe it's because I'm not gay but I've just never understood the backlash to Billy & Chuck's wedding. I've always felt the reaction from GLAAD and the LGBT community was a bit over the top.
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Yeah Rico was always more of a flamboyant type character but it was just WWE's poor handling of the wedding swerve that caught them a lot of heat with GLAAD. Like it came off as Billy and Chuck were only pretending to be gay for some cheap laughs, Rco exposing himself as being gay in the process since he wasn't in on the gag, and Rico trying to force them to marry as some sort of evil gay punishment.
Forgot if they told GLAAD of plans to make them into a positive role model for LGBTs or GLAAD just assumed that was going to happen and instead got played for fools by the WWE.