‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

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• POP STAR KHA COM OUT AS ‘NOT GAY,’ ‘NOT STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘OPEN TO IT ALL’
• EQUAL RIGHTSTHE LONELY ISLANDTRACK 3 ON POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPG FEATURGP!NKPRODUCED BYNI, SOFLY & 1 MORETHIS IS CONNOR4REAL’S BIG SGLE NOUNCG ALL THE DISCRIMATN THAT MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY RECEIVE. ALL THE WHILE HOWEVER, HE WANTS TO RERCE THAT HE IS NOT… READ MORE JUN. 3, 20161 VIEWER65.3K VIEWS35 CONTRIBUTORSEQUAL RIGHTS LYRICS[INTRO: CONNER4REAL]DISCRIMATNIT A'T RIGHT[VERSE 1: CONNER4REAL]I'M NOT GAY, BUT IF I WAS, I WOULD WANT EQUAL RIGHTSI'M NOT GAY, BUT IF I WERE, I WOULD MARRY WHO I LIKEIT'S NOT FAIR (I'M NOT GAY) THAT THE ERNMENT HAS A SAYIN WHO N LOVE WHO (NOT GAY)OR TO WHICH GOD YOU N PRAY (I'M N'GAY)IT GETS ME SO ANGRY, ON BEHALF OF THEM, I FEEL PASSNATE (NOT GAY)SO I'LL PRAY FOR THEM AND I SAY FOR THEM"WE NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE" (NOT GAY)I SEE CLEAR AS DAYTHIS AREA IS NOT GREY (TTI)WE NEED EQUALY AND FOR ALL TO SEETHAT THIS IS THE NEW WAY (NOT GAY)IT JT SEEMS (NOT GAY) WRONG (NOT GAY)THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO RE (SPORTS)WE N'T NTUE TO PRETENDTHIS (NOT GAY) MADNS HAS TO END (NOT GAY)[CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I WAS BORN THIS WAY (STRAIGHT)YOU WERE BORN YOUR WAY (GAY)GAY OR STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT OR GAY, 'S ALL OKAY (SURE)IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE (Y)IT'S TIME TO STOP THE HATE (UH)'CSE WHO YOU ARE IS BETIFUL (NOT GAY)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2: CONNER4REAL]WE N'T LIVE THIS WAY (N'GAY)WE N'T TURN AWAY (N'GAY)SO I MAKE THIS VOW (TTI)THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW (SPORTS)LYG BED NEXT TO TEN BETIFUL GIRLS (ALL STRAIGHT)AND WHILE I MA LOVE TO EVERY ONE OF THEMI WAS THKG ABOUT THE WORLD (HOT WGS)HOW IS THAT I N HAVE SO MUCH STRAIGHT SEXWHILE TWO DUS ARE OPPRSED? (NOT GAY)FOR HAVG SEX (NOT GAY)OR PUTTG ON A WEDDG DRS (I ASSUME)I DON'T REALLY KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT (BEEF JERKY TAST GOOD)POLICS ARE IMPORTANTAND IF GIRLS WANNA HAVE SEX WH ME 'E I SAID THIS, SO BE (N'GAY)I'M NOT A HERO, I'M JT SPEAKG THE TTHI'M NOT A HERO, DON'T LL ME A HERO(BEER, HOAGIE, SWEAT PANTS, NOT GAY)YEAH, NOT A HERO (TTI, NOT GAY)WHOO![CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I'M NOT A HERO (I'M JT A PERSON)SO DON'T LL ME A HERO (NOT SOME KD OF WORLD LEAR)I JT WANT EQUAL RIGHTS (YEAH)AND TO SLEEP AT NIGHT (YEAH)NEXT TO A GIRL[VERSE 3: CONNER4REAL]TE LOVE TMPS ALL (PREDATOR)(FLYG KICKS, NOT GAY, BIG WATCH)(NOT GAY, MISSNARY) ONE LOVE(GYM SOCKS, NUNCHUCK AND NOT GAY)(LIGHTER FLUID, HD, NJA) WORLD PEACE(4-WHEEL DRIVE) GAY MARRIAGE (LOVE BEAV)FREE LOVE (GOLF CLUBS)TWO GUYS (NOT GAY)RABOW (MUFF DIVE)HARVEY MILK/SEAN PENN (NOT GAY)(DM SOLO, URTSI SEATS) SAFE SEX(ONE-ARMED PH UPS) LYNYRD SKYNYRDI'M NOT GAY, I'M NOT GAYI'M NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, N-N-N-NOT GAYI'M NOT GAY[CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I WAS BORN THIS WAY (I'M STRAIGHT)YOU WERE BORN YOUR WAY (YOU'RE GAY)GAY OR STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT OR GAY, 'S ALL OKAY(AND NOW 'S TIME FOR SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)IT'S TIME TO STOP THE HATE (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)'CSE WHO YOU ARE IS BETIFUL (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)NOT GAY1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHIS IS CONNOR4REAL’S BIG SGLE NOUNCG ALL THE DISCRIMATN THAT MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY RECEIVE. ALL THE WHILE HOWEVER, HE WANTS TO RERCE THAT HE IS NOT GAY.EXPAND +17SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “EQUAL RIGHTS” BY THE LONELY ISLAND?WHEN DID THE LONELY ISLAND RELEASE “EQUAL RIGHTS”?WHO WROTE “EQUAL RIGHTS” BY THE LONELY ISLAND?POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPG (2016)THE LONELY ISLAND1. I’M SO HUMBLE2. HOT NEW SGLE (DIALOGUE)3. EQUAL RIGHTS4. TURN UP THE BEEF5. FT GIRL (B LAN SONG)6. MONA LISA7. ARE OR AREN’T? (DIALOGUE)8. HUNTER THE HUNGRY IS GON’ EAT9. SHOULD I MOVE?10. 2 BANDOS11. THGS MY JEEP12. KILL THIS MIC (DIALOGUE)13. ASHLEY WEDNDAY14. FUCK OFF15. DONKEY ROLL16. TRIP TO SPA (DIALOGUE)17. IBHA18. OWEN’S SONG19. WHAT WAS THAT BEAT? (DIALOGUE)20. SICK GLENDA21. INCREDIBLE THOUGHTS22. ME LIKEY DAT23. LEGALIZE IT24. I’M A WEIRDO25. KARATE GUY26. ROCK ROLL SKATE27. HEY YA HO28. MAXIMCREDSFEATURGP!NKPRODUCED BYNI, SOFLY & YOAN CHIRCUWRTEN BYSOFLY, NI, YOAN CHIRCU, JORMA TACNE, AKIVA SCHAFFER & ANDY SAMBERGVOLSP!NK & ANDY SAMBERGRELEASE DATEJUNE 3, 2016TAGSRAPPOPSOUNDTRACKCOMEDYEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT

POP STAR KHA COM OUT AS ‘NOT GAY,’ ‘NOT STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘OPEN TO IT ALL’

In Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppg, Andy Samberg’s character raps, “I’m not gay, but if I was, I’d want equal rights.

EQUAL RIGHTSTHE LONELY ISLANDTRACK 3 ON POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPG FEATURGP!NKPRODUCED BYNI, SOFLY & 1 MORETHIS IS CONNOR4REAL’S BIG SGLE NOUNCG ALL THE DISCRIMATN THAT MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY RECEIVE. ALL THE WHILE HOWEVER, HE WANTS TO RERCE THAT HE IS NOT… READ MORE JUN. 3, 20161 VIEWER65.3K VIEWS35 CONTRIBUTORSEQUAL RIGHTS LYRICS[INTRO: CONNER4REAL]DISCRIMATNIT A'T RIGHT[VERSE 1: CONNER4REAL]I'M NOT GAY, BUT IF I WAS, I WOULD WANT EQUAL RIGHTSI'M NOT GAY, BUT IF I WERE, I WOULD MARRY WHO I LIKEIT'S NOT FAIR (I'M NOT GAY) THAT THE ERNMENT HAS A SAYIN WHO N LOVE WHO (NOT GAY)OR TO WHICH GOD YOU N PRAY (I'M N'GAY)IT GETS ME SO ANGRY, ON BEHALF OF THEM, I FEEL PASSNATE (NOT GAY)SO I'LL PRAY FOR THEM AND I SAY FOR THEM"WE NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE" (NOT GAY)I SEE CLEAR AS DAYTHIS AREA IS NOT GREY (TTI)WE NEED EQUALY AND FOR ALL TO SEETHAT THIS IS THE NEW WAY (NOT GAY)IT JT SEEMS (NOT GAY) WRONG (NOT GAY)THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO RE (SPORTS)WE N'T NTUE TO PRETENDTHIS (NOT GAY) MADNS HAS TO END (NOT GAY)[CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I WAS BORN THIS WAY (STRAIGHT)YOU WERE BORN YOUR WAY (GAY)GAY OR STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT OR GAY, 'S ALL OKAY (SURE)IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE (Y)IT'S TIME TO STOP THE HATE (UH)'CSE WHO YOU ARE IS BETIFUL (NOT GAY)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2: CONNER4REAL]WE N'T LIVE THIS WAY (N'GAY)WE N'T TURN AWAY (N'GAY)SO I MAKE THIS VOW (TTI)THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW (SPORTS)LYG BED NEXT TO TEN BETIFUL GIRLS (ALL STRAIGHT)AND WHILE I MA LOVE TO EVERY ONE OF THEMI WAS THKG ABOUT THE WORLD (HOT WGS)HOW IS THAT I N HAVE SO MUCH STRAIGHT SEXWHILE TWO DUS ARE OPPRSED? (NOT GAY)FOR HAVG SEX (NOT GAY)OR PUTTG ON A WEDDG DRS (I ASSUME)I DON'T REALLY KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT (BEEF JERKY TAST GOOD)POLICS ARE IMPORTANTAND IF GIRLS WANNA HAVE SEX WH ME 'E I SAID THIS, SO BE (N'GAY)I'M NOT A HERO, I'M JT SPEAKG THE TTHI'M NOT A HERO, DON'T LL ME A HERO(BEER, HOAGIE, SWEAT PANTS, NOT GAY)YEAH, NOT A HERO (TTI, NOT GAY)WHOO![CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I'M NOT A HERO (I'M JT A PERSON)SO DON'T LL ME A HERO (NOT SOME KD OF WORLD LEAR)I JT WANT EQUAL RIGHTS (YEAH)AND TO SLEEP AT NIGHT (YEAH)NEXT TO A GIRL[VERSE 3: CONNER4REAL]TE LOVE TMPS ALL (PREDATOR)(FLYG KICKS, NOT GAY, BIG WATCH)(NOT GAY, MISSNARY) ONE LOVE(GYM SOCKS, NUNCHUCK AND NOT GAY)(LIGHTER FLUID, HD, NJA) WORLD PEACE(4-WHEEL DRIVE) GAY MARRIAGE (LOVE BEAV)FREE LOVE (GOLF CLUBS)TWO GUYS (NOT GAY)RABOW (MUFF DIVE)HARVEY MILK/SEAN PENN (NOT GAY)(DM SOLO, URTSI SEATS) SAFE SEX(ONE-ARMED PH UPS) LYNYRD SKYNYRDI'M NOT GAY, I'M NOT GAYI'M NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, N-N-N-NOT GAYI'M NOT GAY[CHOS: P!NK & CONNER4REAL]I WAS BORN THIS WAY (I'M STRAIGHT)YOU WERE BORN YOUR WAY (YOU'RE GAY)GAY OR STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT OR GAY, 'S ALL OKAY(AND NOW 'S TIME FOR SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)IT'S TIME TO STOP THE HATE (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)'CSE WHO YOU ARE IS BETIFUL (SEXUAL EEDOM FOR ALL)NOT GAY1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHIS IS CONNOR4REAL’S BIG SGLE NOUNCG ALL THE DISCRIMATN THAT MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY RECEIVE. ALL THE WHILE HOWEVER, HE WANTS TO RERCE THAT HE IS NOT GAY.EXPAND +17SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “EQUAL RIGHTS” BY THE LONELY ISLAND?WHEN DID THE LONELY ISLAND RELEASE “EQUAL RIGHTS”?WHO WROTE “EQUAL RIGHTS” BY THE LONELY ISLAND?POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPG (2016)THE LONELY ISLAND1. I’M SO HUMBLE2. HOT NEW SGLE (DIALOGUE)3. EQUAL RIGHTS4. TURN UP THE BEEF5. FT GIRL (B LAN SONG)6. MONA LISA7. ARE OR AREN’T? (DIALOGUE)8. HUNTER THE HUNGRY IS GON’ EAT9. SHOULD I MOVE?10. 2 BANDOS11. THGS MY JEEP12. KILL THIS MIC (DIALOGUE)13. ASHLEY WEDNDAY14. FUCK OFF15. DONKEY ROLL16. TRIP TO SPA (DIALOGUE)17. IBHA18. OWEN’S SONG19. WHAT WAS THAT BEAT? (DIALOGUE)20. SICK GLENDA21. INCREDIBLE THOUGHTS22. ME LIKEY DAT23. LEGALIZE IT24. I’M A WEIRDO25. KARATE GUY26. ROCK ROLL SKATE27. HEY YA HO28. MAXIMCREDSFEATURGP!NKPRODUCED BYNI, SOFLY & YOAN CHIRCUWRTEN BYSOFLY, NI, YOAN CHIRCU, JORMA TACNE, AKIVA SCHAFFER & ANDY SAMBERGVOLSP!NK & ANDY SAMBERGRELEASE DATEJUNE 3, 2016TAGSRAPPOPSOUNDTRACKCOMEDYEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

A prime example is the song that precipat Conner’s fall, a sendup of all those cir-2012 gay rights anthems om straight artists.

“I’m not gay, but if I was, I’d want equal rights, ” Conner raps, dog a pch-perfect Macklemore, and feelg the need to terpt himself wh creasgly absurd “no homo”–isms like “Not gay! In celebratn of Pri Month, pop star Kha announced that she is neher gay nor straight, but is “open to all. “I’m not gay.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT

However, the nod to Macklemore gets more evint when Conner cis to pen a song lled “Equal Rights (Not Gay)”. Although Macklemore’s “Same Love”, which talks about gay rights and marriage equaly, was wrten wh more noble tentns, did lead to some cricisms om fans who say the song was "misguid" as Macklemore "fails to acknowledge the privileg afford to him" (via Medium). Lady Gaga's Born This Way Is Spoofed Through Conner's Song "Equal Rights (Not Gay)".

Pokg fun at the hypocrisy among straight alli like Conner, “Equal Rights (Not Gay)” mak for one of the bt Lonely Island mic vios.