Edith Surreal Says Pride Month Should Be A ‘Call To Arms’ While Trans Rights Are Under Attack (Exclusive)

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It’s Pride Month! Throughout June, HollywoodLife is celebrating with The Sound Of Pride, wherever celebs and stars of the LBGTQ+ assemblage prime songs for the eventual 2023 Pride Month playlist. It’s the cleanable soundtrack to readying your Pride party, researching how to support LGBTQ+ rights, oregon speechmaking astir the history of Pride Month. In this corner, it’s Edith Surreal, the hypnagogic grappler helping to enactment the “art” into the creation of wrestling.

Edith among the creation of the world. (Kyle Olsen)

From Girl With Pearl Earring to Woman With Championship Belt – Edith Surreal began beingness arsenic a coating and present stands arsenic 1 of the trailblazing combatants connected the autarkic wrestling scene. Beginning her vocation arsenic Still Life With Apricot And Pears, the aboriginal Edith would assistance wrestling fans rediscover the sport’s creator roots some with her gasp-inducing performances, and her arsenic outstanding merchandise (Andy Warhol was a devoted fan, aft all, and he’d astir apt be sporting an Edith Surreal shirt if helium was inactive with us.) Edith helped grow the conception of some “what is art?” and “what is wrestling?” leaving some amended successful her wake.

First identifying arsenic nonbinary, Edith aboriginal came retired arsenic transgender, which puts her astatine hazard if she performs successful a authorities with anti-LGBTQ+ laws connected the books. This is thing she is good alert of during this Pride Month. “Our beingness is perpetually nether legislative onslaught successful 2023,” Edith tells HollywoodLife when picking songs for The Sound Of Pride. “It’s not a solemnisation this year; it should beryllium a telephone to arms.”

Edith volition not shy from the fight.  In fact, she volition beryllium successful enactment connected June 17, putting her Enjoy Wrestling Championship connected the enactment successful a lucifer with Su Yung of Impact Wrestling. Fans tin spot Edith and the different stars of Enjoy Wrestling astatine Something To Talk About, taking spot at the legendary Mr. Smalls Theatre successful Pittsburgh.

While buying the tickets for the lawsuit and registering to vote, work connected for Edith’s selections for The Sound of Pride.

Against Me!

“Against Me! has ever been 1 of my favourite bands. So it was particularly meaningful to maine erstwhile Laura Jane Grace came retired arsenic a trans woman. Before her, determination wasn’t a well-known trans femme idiosyncratic that I could truly place with. She was a chill badass with chipped nail polish and wrote gritty songs astir trans existence. I adjacent person the lyrics to her opus “Bamboo Bones” tattooed connected my arm: ‘What God doesn’t springiness to you, you’ve got to spell and get for yourself.'”

Editor’s Note: Edith picked Against Me! truthful we volition see “Bamboo Bones” connected the playlist.

Orville Peck

“I person nary prime but to emotion Orville Peck. Obviously, I subordinate to the mystique and state that comes with performing nether a mask. Country music, similar nonrecreational wrestling, is mostly performed astatine the extremes of masculinity and femininity.  However, arsenic a queer songwriter, Orville circumvents those expectations the aforesaid mode being a queer wrestler does. I’m peculiarly drawn to his covers of ‘Smalltown Boy’ and ‘Fancy.'”

Editor’s Note: We’ll adhd “Fancy” to the playlist.

The XX

There is simply a definite essence that queer artists and performers have. Maybe it’s due to the fact that truthful galore of america walk clip successful the closet, desperately holding onto a secret. I’ve ever been drawn to the XX, adjacent earlier I knew the 2 singers, Romi and Oliver, were queer. I besides emotion their minimalist and elemental attack to music, each enactment is intentional, and thing is extraneous.

Editor’s Note: “Swept Away” seems similar a bully prime for The XX.

(Kyle Olsen)

How does Pride 2023 consciousness erstwhile compared to past year’s?

“‘There is nary Pride for immoderate of us, without Liberation for each of us,’ said Marsha P Johnson has been benignant of a rallying outcry for america successful queer wrestling circles. Our beingness is perpetually nether legislative onslaught successful 2023. It’s not a solemnisation this year, it should beryllium a telephone to arms.

Pride is simply a clip to observe unsung heroes. Is determination anyone you’d similar to spot get immoderate much of the spotlight this year?

I’ve ever looked up to Cassandro el Exotico. Many accidental helium was the archetypal exotico. Exoticos were typically played by consecutive cis wrestlers and utilized overly queer stereotypes to get vigor from the crowd. Cassandro, however, reclaimed it with respect and dignity. Wrestling has a agelong past of utilizing queerness arsenic the butt of the joke, and I emotion however Cassandro made it a constituent of pride.

What bash you person planned for June (and the remainder of 2023?)

I’m astir excited astir my archetypal large Enjoy Championship defence connected June 17th astatine Mr. Smalls Theater. Enjoy Wrestling has a precise inclusive roster and already has go of the apical autarkic wrestling companies successful the US. It means a batch for maine to beryllium their champion.

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Keep reading HollywoodLife throughout June for more entries in The Sound of Pride and additional Pride Month coverage. And retrieve — hole your bosom oregon die! 

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