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CASSANDRO THE EXOTICO!
Wrestling is often a binary affair in its setup: superhero versus supervillain, us versus them, good versus evil. In Mexican Lucha Libre, the heroes are called ‘Tecnicos’ (because of their fair technical loyalty) and the villains ‘Rudos’ (meaning rough, coarse or crude). But unlike US wrestling, there is a third pole here: that of the ‘Exóticos’, a literally non-binary category that brings to the surface an aspect of the wrestling narrative that has always been part of wrestling beneath the surface: queerness and drag.
Exóticos are a self-confident celebration of everything that queer-coded characters from Gorgeous George to Goldust only touched upon. And no Exótico is more famous than Cassandro. Known to younger non-Mexican wrestling audiences for his participation in the ‘Clusterfuck Battle Royal’ and the ballroom/wrestling hybrid event ‘EFFY's Bug Gay Brunch,’ Cassandro takes us through his life as a performer, almost ritually going through the entire range of wrestling biography moments: glamour and everyday life, heroism and (body) horror, ego and self-sacrifice, always in search of unbroken fabulousness between the extremes.