Ken Has Always Been Barbie’s Gay Bt Friend—Not Her Boyiend

THE TE STORY OF MATTEL ACCINTALLY RELEASG A SUPER GAY KEN DOLL

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Ken's actually bee a gay in sce the 1990s when he was sold as "Earrg Magic Ken, " plete wh an earrg and a necklace that rembled a sex toy. ” — only a whole lot Cyle Suz for In The KnowThe doll was lled Earrg Magic Ken, which is the absolute bt name for an accintally gay doll.

Te to his name, his ear is pierced on the left si, which was largely nsired to be “the gay ear” to pierce at the time and a vert way of ditg queerns. And that’s not all to mentn, his necklace was almost cidly moled after a sexual accsory trend of leathers and club-kids the doll’s 1993 release, activist and wrer Dan Savage, who at the time was workg for queer-foced newspaper The Stranger, wrote a piece about the doll’s cidly “gay” look. “New Ken, ” as he was termed, was officially “Gay Ken.

THE FUTURE OF GAY BARBIE DOLLS AND THE HISTORY OF EARRG MAGIC KEN

Wh Greta Gerwig's Barbie set to h theaters this July, we cid to take a look back at the past, prent, and future of gay Barbie dolls. * super gay barbie doll *

Even before Earrg Magic Ken, gay jok surround fashn-lovg Ken for his sat sus and affiliatn wh the hyper-feme world of unlike the jok about Ken’s sexualy, Earrg Magic Ken was the first time queer people weren’t the butt of the “gay Ken” joke. In fact, that year, 44 percent of the natn believed “gay relatnships” — not marriage, simply datg someone of the oppose genr — should be 1993, Mattel (or any other brand, for that matter) would have never knowgly released a product for queer people bee would alienate the brand’s re nsumer: nservative married moms middle Ameri who are buyg Barbie for their Katie Dupere for In The KnowEarrg Magic Ken likely stck such a chord wh gay men and queer people bee was reprentatn when no one wanted to reprent . The toy giant now sells Creatable World dolls which allow for genr exploratn and Ken dolls that, let’s face , are gayer than Earrg Magic Ken ever was.

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To pay homage to the blon, plastic in, Philalphia-based choreographer and performance artist Gunnar Montana llaborated wh fellow Philly artist and photographer Joe Mac to create a project that celebrat both Mattel's inic toy brand and the leather muny -- and the rult was gay AF. Sharg the rults on Instagram, the u of Montana and Mac's labor was none other than a life-sized art stallatn entled "Super Gay Barbie: Leather Daddy Edn, " which featured Montana channelg his ner doll, donng a harns and heels all of his Leather Daddy urse, Leather Daddy Barbie is nothg whout his accsori to play wh, so Montana is also standg a big toy box that featur other acutrements that clu a whip, hanki of assorted lors, a pup mask, a pk motorcycle, and a leather vt (amongst other nghty thgs). For last year's Barbie Day celebratn, the two released their first "Super Gay Barbie, " which featured Montana standg a toy box wh accsori that clud a douche, weights, a cell phone preload wh Grdr on , and a kimono.