{"id":21014,"date":"2015-07-21T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2015-07-21T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T01:48:47","slug":"stephanie-mcmahon-says-the-darren-young-character-isnt-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/stephanie-mcmahon-says-the-darren-young-character-isnt-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie McMahon Says The Darren Young Character Isn&#8217;t Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Daily Beast<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast ran an article today about the WWE&#8217;s hesitation to promote gay, lesbian and transgender characters on their program today, during that article, Stephanie McMahon shared an interesting quote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darren Young was the first WWE superstar to really come out as being homosexual, but his character in the show is not,&#8221; McMahon said. &#8220;At least, we haven&#8217;t done anything with it either way \u2014 just yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie is differentiating the Darren Young character, which she considers not to be gay, and Fred Rosser, who plays the character and is gay.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Young came out as gay in August 2013, as TMZ cameras caught up with him while at LAX. It made him the WWE&#8217;s only actively openly gay performer.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, there has been little to no mention of Young&#8217;s sexual orientation on WWE programming. Young and tag team partner Titus O&#8217;Neil did make mention of it jokingly on WWE&#8217;s YouTube, noting that Darren Young already had his &#8220;coming out party.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie McMahon Says The Darren Young Character Isn&#8217;t Gay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[635],"class_list":["post-21014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-darren-young"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}