All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has a huge roster of talented wrestlers and loves celebrating their queer stars!
While out gay pro wrestler Anthony Bowens has made headlines for his “scissoring” bit (and as one of PRIDE’s grand marshals for last year’s Pride Month celebration), there are also queer women and nonbinary wrestlers who fill out the AEW roster.
From stars Diamante and Kiara Hogan — who have an IRL romance going — to “The Latina Sensation” to the very goth Abadon, the Sapphic side of the AEW has us seated for all future matches.
Diamante
Diamante is a Cuban-American professional wrestler who has been with the AEW since 2020, and signed a full-time deal in 2023. She is also part of Ring of Honor, AEW’s sister promotion, where last year she competed in the Women’s World Championship and beat Kiera Hogan, whom she has been in a relationship with since 2019.
Kiera Hogan
Kiera Hogan, who has been dating fellow AEW wrestler Diamante since 2019, is a former Impact Wrestling Tag Team Champion who signed with AEW in 2021.
Mercedes Martinez
Married lesbian wrestler Mercedes Martinez, AKA “The Latina Sensation,” is a former WWE wrestler who left to join AEW in 2019. Martinez then returned to the WWE before leaving to do a brief stint with Impact Wrestling before rejoining AEW in 2021.
Nyla Rose
Black and Native Oneida wrestler Nyla Rose has been breaking down barriers throughout her career. In 2019, she became the first out trans wrestler in history to sign to a major American wrestling promotion when she joined AEW and then made history as the first trans wrestler to win a title in an America wrestling promotion when she became the AEW Women's World Championship in 2020.
She also starred in OutTV’s Canadian television series The Switch and co-wrote the comic Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1.
Abadon
Abadon is a nonbinary wrestler who joined the AEW in 2020. They are called the “Living Dead Girl,” and their billed weight is “1,000 lost souls,” and have fought in Halloween-themed matches because of their in-ring persona. In 2023, Abadon became the number one contender for the AEW Women's World Championship, after defeating Anna Jay, Skye Blue, and Willow Nightingale in a four-way match.
Saraya
Former WWE Raw wrestler Saraya signed with AEW in 2022 after a neck injury forced her out of the ring in 2017. She was the youngest female champion in the WWE, is a two-time WWE Divas Champion, and a former AEW Women's World Champion.
Her life story was turned in the biographical sports comedy Fighting with My Family, starring Florence Pugh as Saraya.
Toni Storm
New Zealand-Aurtrailian former WWE wrestler Toni Storm joined AEW in 2022. After losing the AEW Women’s World Championship, Storm rebranded herself as “Timeless” Toni Storm, creating a new persona of a demanding and paranoid Golden Age of Hollywood starlet and changing her hair and makeup to look like Marilyn Monroe.
Storm came out as bisexual in 2021 when she took over the WWE NXT Instagram account for Pride Month.