Life has beaten Cassandro up, but he has fought back with the utmost of style. A world champion in the machismo world of Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling, he is what’s known in Mexico as an Exotico, a gay man who wrestles in drag. He’s been UWA world lightweight champion and was the first ever person to win the Exotico title. A pioneer who brought the pantyhose, the bathing suits, the feathers, the rhinestones and the glitter - all the glamour. The “Queen of the Ring.”

As he once said before he broke the arm of a cop beating up his tranny friends in Juarez, “I’m only gay up my ass, come get me right now and you’ll see what I’m about…”