Kendo Nagasaki thinks he’d be gay, not bisexuality if he was born today.
The grappler, real name Peter Thornley, wrestled between 1964 and 2008, is one of the most famous openly-gay wrestlers in the UK.
He came out to the public in his 2017 book “Kendo Nagasaki and the Man Behind The Mask”, revealing he knew when he was 17 that he was bisexual.
However, he thinks society forced him into being bisexual, and not simply gay.
The wrestling legend spoke with BBC Radio Stoke, promoting his return to the ring later this year.
He was asked about what it is like being a bisexual in the wrestling business, especially during a time when it was illegal in Britain.
Kendo Nagasaki gave an interesting answer. He stated that society pushed him towards being bisexual, rather than just being a gay man.
He thinks that if he were born in the modern day, he would simply be gay, and not bisexual.
“I was born in 1941. We’ve gone Alan Turing just after that. When I was 17, two people who I went to school with went to prison for sexual acts.”
“I would say that bisexuality is forced on my type of person. Society does not allow you to be who you really want to be.”
“If I really, really think about it, I think I have been pushed into that sort of thing (bisexuality). If it’d been now, I’d be gay, not bisexual.”
