In January, I posted this video on YouTube, in which I talked about my successes in 2013 and my aims for the year ahead – and also came out about my sexuality.

This made me Scotland’s first openly gay wrestler. Of my friends in wrestling, some knew before the video – the ones that I wanted to know.

After I told Damian O’Connor, the guy who trained me, he said he had more or less known for a year and a half.

I also had a lot of support from Glen Dunbar, who has been a mentor to me. I was nervous about the video, but Damian sat me down and talked through it with me.

Afterwards, I got a few messages, most of them very positive. Not just from wrestlers, but from people I didn’t know, all around the country and places I’d never been to.

I’ve not come across any negative views in wrestling. I doubt anyone in wrestling would take a negative view, because it’s such an open sport.

It invites everyone from all walks of life. A lot of my friends outside of wrestling were surprised – which surprised me.

If you look at the sport I do, we run around in sparkly underwear – it was bound to be one of us!

A few have taken it negatively, but that’s their choice. Some people said I did the video for publicity. But I’m not just claiming to be the first openly gay wrestler in Scotland – I have looked into it and I am.

It upsets me that I’m the first, when you think that it’s 2014. When will there be an openly gay professional footballer?

I hope it’s this year. I’d like to think the world has its eyes open enough that, when it happens, people will think: “Right, he’s gay. Who cares?”

The Scottish Wrestling Alliance’s 10th anniversary show is at Motherwell Concert Hall today.