Dave Marshall is a 29-year-old professional wrestler who performs for a local promotional company in Perth, the largest city on the west coast of Australia. He is also one of the few out gay wrestlers in the sport. And he also does porn—homemade porn which he posts on the site OnlyFans, which lets users share their homemade sex videos with anyone willing to pay a nominal fee.
While that combination is definitely a rare one in the pro wrestling industry, Marshall has used his OnlyFans videos for a cause close to his heart: preventing suicide among LGBTQ people, as Gay Star News reported this week.
The 6’3” Marshall, whose finishing move as a wrestler is listed as “jackhammer,” says that he became enamored with pro wrestling at an early age, as an insecure eight-year-old, who saw “real life superheroes" on the TV screen when his brother first flipped the TV channel to a wrestling show. He dreamed of becoming a wrestler himself, but never acted on his ambition until the relatively late age of 26—at the same time that he broke up with his then-girlfriend and came out as gay, a process that he says went painlessly for him.
“Fortunately, not a single person has been negative towards my coming out,” he told Gay Star News. “My family—even a very homophobic uncle—were all very supportive.”
His fellow pro wrestlers at the promotion Southern Hemisphere Wrestling Alliance have also been accepting of him, though Marshall has not integrated his gay identity into his wrestling shtick, a character he describes as a “much more cocky, arrogant and aggressive version of myself, turned up to 11.”
He started posting homemade porn videos on his OnlyFans account, at the suggestion of a now ex-boyfriend, but before he started, he says, he needed a reason, something other than simply as a hobby, or to make a few bucks.
Sadly, that reason appeared last year, when his own father committed suicide. At that point Marshall resolved to use the revenues from his porn sideline to raise funds for Beyond Blue, a suicide prevention organization targeting at-risk LGBTQ people.
"The reason the money I raise from my OnlyFans goes towards Beyond Blue is seeing every day how big depression and anxiety has become in society and almost overlooked,” he wrote on his Instagram page. “Stats on LGBT in this area are quite scary too so I hope I can in some way, give back to my community. Positivity is everything.”
To date, Marshall says he has raised about $3,600 in U.S. currency for the charity by offering his own online porn.
Photo by Dave Marshall Instagram
