The news comes on the heels of gay wrestling icon Pat Patterson's memoir release

In his new memoir Accepted, 75-year-old gay wrestling legend Pat Patterson writes about his long career in the WWE – all of which was spent in the closet.

But if WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon has anything to say about it, gay wrestlers like Patterson won’t have to hide their true selves as part of the WWE anymore.

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Speaking at a Beyond Sport United event, McMahon told NBC OUT that her company is committed to LGBT inclusion moving forward.

“When it makes sense, absolutely we will integrate LGBT characters into our programming,” she said backstage. While the WWE doesn’t have imminent plans, McMahon believes there will be an opportunity for an LGBT storyline in the “near future.”

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McMahon said the LGBT community has always been accepted at the WWE. “Throughout my life I have grown up knowing gay [WWE] superstars and executives,” she said. “It’s always been accepted, but now it’s about getting that message out there.”

She also said sensitivity toward the LGBT community is being prioritized in the WWE writer’s room through a partnership with LGBT media advocacy organization GLAAD.

“We’ve had GLAAD come in and speak to our entire writing team and give a whole tutorial on sensitivities, the right words, the wrong word [and] why those words matter,” she explained. “In terms of any issues that require a degree of sensitivity in terms of how they’re being handled, we are always going to incorporate our partners, like GLAAD, to help us tell those stories the right way, because we do want to be sensitive to our audience, we want to be sensitive to the community and we want to make sure that we’re telling the right messages in the right way.”

Patterson – who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996 – came out in 2014 in the finale of the WWE reality show Legends’ House.

Sitting at a table with his fellow former wrestlers, Patterson admitted that he “survived all this being gay.”

“I’ve lived with that for 50-some years,” Patterson said, before adding his life outside of the ring included a partner of 40 years, who passed away after a heart attack.

“I’m so proud of me,” he said while wiping away tears. “It’s tough guys, it was tough.”