‘F*** You If You Don’t Like It’

From his reign as heavyweight winner within the WWE to his second act as an motion star in tentpole blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and Dune, it may be easy to affiliate wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista with a sure diploma of aged-school machismo. However by his particular person declaration, Bautista is not any “meathead”: and he has acquired no time for any of the a lot less-than-progressive beliefs that will usually get projected on to a hulking, hetero, hypermasculine high man.

Bautista simply shared a article on Instagram celebrating Pleasure season, placing on a T-shirt emblazoned with a rainbow and the slogan “Be You.” (The shirt can be restricted ample, and exhibits off sufficient of that trademark higher physique and arm pump, that he’d swan on account of the door of any homosexual membership with out attending to pay again embrace however that is incidental.)

In distinct, Bautista took the prospect to fork out tribute to his mom Donna Raye, an overtly gay woman, who he claims taught him something he must find out about dwelling “loud and proud.” And if everybody had been being to take drawback with that, he has some selection phrases for them far too.

“I used to be continually pleased with who my mother was as a result of truth she was usually very happy of who she was,” he wrote. “In your cope with, fuck you in case you by no means prefer it, unapologetically loud and blissful. And her son payed curiosity. BE LOUD, BE Completely satisfied, BE YOU.”

He signed off the submit with a quantity of Pleasure time hashtags, as successfully as #ProudSonofaLesbian. He is so very happy, in level, that in his Males’s Nicely being embrace story earlier yr he described that he made use of among the earnings he acquired producing flicks to accumulate her a family in her need neighborhood in San Francisco.