Gorgeous George Pretty-Boy, United States Lavender Scare

Portrait painting by Chris Dale of wrestler of Gorgeous George.
Always the prettiest boy with the prettiest hair in the arena is that George.

Gorgeous George or George Raymond Wagner, 1915-1963, a professional wrestler known for his flamboyant effeminate Pretty-Boy, if not outright drag queen, who constantly implied homosexuality but never outright stated it.
Crating archetypal, a gimmick that, because of his predilections using tactics of lying and cheating every dirty trick, inflaming the anger of the crowd, became the hated heel.
His character was right dab in the middle of the homophobia public and incentivized by United States government Lavender Scare.

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