WWE Star Titus O’Neil Reveals Long-Standing Support for LGBTQ+ Community After Adopting Openly Gay Daughter
July 5, 2022Wrestling champion and WWE Global Ambassador Titus O’Neil has opened up about being an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights after officially adopting his 16-year-old daughter who is openly gay.
In an interview with Wrestling Inc Daily, O’Neil stated that he has always supported the LGBTQ+ community. He also revealed that he doesn’t speak to some family members because they are anti-LGBTQ+.
“I have always been an advocate for those in the lesbian and gay community because people in my family were persecuted by my own family members for being gay or lesbian,” O’Neil told Wrestling Inc’s Managing Editor, Nick Hausman. “That I still have a very strong distaste for and haven’t spoken to a lot of them since. We have to take a closer look at being greater human beings and those great human beings have very significant differences, but our differences shouldn’t divide us… [it] should help us understand from a different perspective.”
Commenting on adopting his teenage daughter, he shared: “I have a daughter who I just adopted. She’s 16 years old and she’s openly gay. One person asked me, ‘How does it feel to have a gay daughter?’ ‘Well how does it feel to have a straight son, that’s an a** hole?’ I’ve known her since she was seven or eight years old. I adopted her because she’s a great human being. She deserves a dad. What her sexual preference is, I’m not there to damn her or demean her for what she chooses to live out.”
Although Neil hasn’t wrestled since November 2020, he has been working as a WWE ambassador since. He’s also the recipient of the 2020 Hall of Fame Warrior Award for his philanthropy and contributions to his local community.
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