Tight trousers, bare chest and a mask that, in some cases, never comes off – such is the archetypal figure in Mexico’s lucha libre. But in this macho world a group of flamboyant LGBTQ+ wrestlers have not only carved themselves as space, but come out as champions.
The release of Cassandro, a film starring Gael García Bernal as one of the sport’s trailblazing exóticos, has swung the spotlight on to this perhaps unexpected, but thriving, element of Mexico’s cultural life.
