Kevin Nash made some interesting points about the LGBT community and homophobia in the wrestling business as early as 2006. Here are some exerpts from and interview he did with outsports -
>OS: You seem very educated and gay-friendly on these issues. Where does that come from?
>Nash: Number one is just that, education. I've got gay friends. I've been around gay people my whole life. Intolerance is just ignorance. That's all it is. God forbid if some gay people move into your neighborhood: Curb appeal will be nice and the property value will double. God forbid. [Homophobia] is just prejudice like anything else.
>OS: How do you think you'd react if one of your longtime wrestling colleagues, for example Scott Hall, came out to you?
>Nash: That's an ongoing angle that I think Scott and I could do is if, after all these years, people find out that Hall and Nash are actually gay. The Disco Inferno. It'd be the biggest thing. For all these macho guys to find out Nash and Hall are gay.
>OS: Some of these guys who play gay characters are gay. How does that play off, with Kevin Nash the person being straight, but Kevin Nash the character being gay?
>Nash: When Goldust did it, I think a lot of guys got creeped out about it. The part I played in "The Longest Yard," where I took some estrogen and became a little more feminine, I've had friends go, "Dude, how can you do that?" And I say, "Well, I read the script and it was funny." I was doing a comedy and I read the script and none of the guys wanted to play that part.
>OS: Why is that?
>Nash: It's just the homophobia. That's the way I look at it.
