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Los Exoticos


In lucha libre, an exótico is a luchador (male wrestler) fighting/performing in drag. The exótico’s movement vocabulary is campy, often silly, and seldom dignified. Exóticos are male wrestlers who appropriate feminine aspects in their wrestling personas or "gimmicks" – through feminine costumes, for example, ‘contesting the dramatic representation of machismo’ and successfully unmanning their opponents in the ring while also ‘rejecting the outward signs of manhood’. Though Exoticos may not necessarily be gay, they often are, and their sexual ambiguity is undeniable. Attired with feather boas, headdresses, sequins or stockings, they defy a religious Latin culture that is ardently macho.

Lucha libre (Hispanic freestyle wrestling) is a blend of art and sport that involves various fighting techniques such as Judo, Jujitsu, grappling and kickboxing. It’s a world of masked luchadores (enmascarados), flying little people and flamboyant costuming, one filled with acrobatics and athleticism, all mixed with drama, pageantry and a physical comedy that is uniquely Latino origin. Everything that a luchador says, does, and wears is essential to their character and their performance. There are different kind of luchadores who represent good and evil, technico or rudo/heel, and queers. Lucha Libre is a space in which the macho-maricon (heterosexual-homosexual continuum is represented not only in the relative positioning of men competing over who is "more" macho but also by men who have abdicated their masculinity.


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