I came across gay wrestling fiction on the internet about twelve years ago. I stumbled across a sincere little site with very short stories of celebrities mixing it up at various levels of wrestling skill. Each match-up had headshots of the featured celebrities at the top of the page, with a shorthand description of the match. Somewhere along the way, the link died.
I eventually found some gay wrestling fiction of widely differing quality. Men on the Net has a lot of crappy stories, but some that are fun, including some celebrity matches. Mangler’s Wrestling Stories is a multi-author collection that aren’t often celebrity-based, but some are quite homoerotic. I recently rediscovered a celebrity wrestling group through the portal-blog Rants Roids & Rasslin by John Savage. You have to wait for a sign up period to access the Arena Island Celebrity Wrestling stories by Savage, and he’s adamant that you need to participate by leaving comments on the matches, but the writing and the story lines are entertaining and hot (definitely worth it).
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been enjoying writing my own homoerotic wrestling fiction, Producer’s Ring, featuring celebrity personalities. It’s all a fun game of “what if.” What if the world had truly been revolutionized by the internet? What if consumer capitalism expanded to its logical conclusion, where everything and everyone became a commodity for consumption? And most importantly, what if the entertainment-industry built and destroyed celebrity careers based on wrestling match-ups between the actors that keep gay men buying movie tickets? I write about a different world that caters much more explicitly to homoeroticism, but it’s not necessarily a world I’d particularly like to live in. But I greatly enjoy visiting there every so often. I’m currently working on a series of matches featuring Christopher Meloni, inspired by this awesome photo at the top.
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