Lesbian Wrestling League (Ultimate Submission Book 4)

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Green and Deville’s connection ties back to WWE’s 2015 revival of its reality competition show “Tough Enough. Now, decades later, the defiant spirits embodying that openness and desire for visibility among wrestling’s lesbian community refuse to keep their identities in the shadows. Some use their presence in the ring to shed light on other organizations that actively kept lesbian women obscured.

These depictions were damaging in their ability to define lesbian identities to wrestling audiences, but they also masked the industry’s actual lesbian history. Deville now joins Shayna Baszler, Indi Hartwell, Piper Niven, Pat Patterson, current New Japan Pro Wrestling star Fred Rosser and current AEW star Saraya as the only out LGBTQ wrestlers to win a WWE championship.

The match ended after the two teams exchanged near falls, leaving an opening for Green to hit her Unpretty-Her finisher followed by Deville hitting a running knee and securing the pinfall victory. Her inclusion on the company’s reality show Total Divas provided the most genuine look into LGBTQ identities ever to grace WWE programming. Names like Mercedes Martinez and Sonya Deville gives lesbian members of WWE’s audience figures to latch onto.

Even WWE, nearly 20 years removed from the initials “HLA,” now has prominent lesbian voices among its roster that are a driving force in pulling the company slowly into acknowledging LGBTQ identities.None of this is to say that the current position of lesbian representation in pro wrestling is where it should be. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards.