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

Contents:

• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

HBO doceri Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York reviss the madman who dismembered gay men the Neti amid NYPD neglect. One of the most tellg moments of Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York, the new HBO doceri about a serial killer who terrorized gay men the Neti, when director Anthony Caronna is terviewg a pair of retired police tectiv who worked the se.

” One of the tectiv repli wh his own qutn: “Why is the emphasis on the gay part?

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

” Well, sir, ’s a film about a murrer who killed gay men. Whom he picked up at gay bars. Thereby terrifyg the gay muny.

And yet there remas a trace of “Don’t say gay” among the mostly straight, mostly male ps here, who doth prott that they did everythg their power to crack the se as quickly as possible. The film suggts that the two factors – a queass about homosexualy, and a sense of jtice layed – are closely related.

Between 1991 and 1993, the butchered remas of four gay and bisexual men were found along highways New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It turned out he had also killed a llege hoemate at the Universy of Mae, 1973, but was acquted on the basis of a so-lled “gay panic” fense (he claimed his victim h on him).

'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER

It is also a subtle dictment of how gay liv are valued by society. “When you’re talkg about homosexuals, you’re talkg about someone who ms a crime, ” explas former Patrolmen’s Benevolent Associatn prent Samuel DeMilia archival news footage. Take the New York Tim obuary brief on Morrero, headled, “Anthony Morrero: Crack Addict, Prostute, ” which go on to expla that his life was “marked by a failed marriage, dg addictn and ultimately gay prostutn, the thori said.

Tabloid headl scribed Rogers’ spree wh phras such as “gay-slay.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

That’s hardly a al-breaker; Last Call is ultimately foced on the culture of anti-gay vlence, all too mon then and on the rise now, and how that culture is perpetuated.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

It’s safe to say he hated gay people. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. 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 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 of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.