Is Yu-Gi-Oh gay?

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• GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE
• GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY
• YUGH GAY LIST
• SPOFFS WH THEIR OWN PAG: YU-GI-OH! GX YU-GI-OH! 5DS YU-GI-OH! ZEXAL YU-GI-OH! ARC-V YU-GI-OH! VRAINSFIRST ANIME "YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP RD!" IS PROBABLY THE SERI'S BIGGT. "IT'S TIME TO D-D-DD-DDDDDD-DUEL" OM THE DUB'S TRO IS ANOTHER POPULAR ONE. EXAGGERATED FACIAL EXPRSNS ARE THE BASIS OF MANY A MEME. KAIBA'S CH OM EPISO 200. HECK, JT THE EPISO SELF FOR S OFF-MOL ANIMATN. DARK MARIK'S CRAZY FACIAL EXPRSNS, PECIALLY HIS FAMO NIGHTMARE FACE AT THE END OF EPISO 140. CHARACTERS OM LATER SERI EVENTUALLY DO THE SAME. JOEY'S (AND TRISTAN'S, ON THE OCSN JOEY WAS UNNSC) "CREEPY CH" FACIAL EXPRSNS THE ANIME. THE FACIAL EXPRSNS QUTN WERE SPIRED BY JAPANE WRTLER ANTON INOKI, WHO'S WELL KNOWN FOR HAVG A LARGE CH. AIBOOOOO! EXPLANATN YUGI'S SOUL IS STOLEN DURG THE DOMA ARC, AND WAS PARTIALLY THE PHARAOH'S FLT. THE PHARAOH...DO NOT TAKE WELL. THE SCENE WHERE HE SCREAMED "AIBOOOOOO!" [HIS NICKNAME FOR YUGI, MEANG 'PARTNER'] RAPIDLY BEME A MEME. "IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT HIM! IT'S NOT FAIR!" EXPLANATN THE ENGLISH DUB VERSN OF THE AFOREMENTN SCENE. THIS HAS BEE ED CERTA VIOS ORR TO SHOW ENVY/JEALOY TOWARDS SOMEONE ELSE'S SUATN, PECIALLY IF 'S SOMETHG SEXUAL THE ER WOULD ENJOY EVEN IF THE CHARACTER DON'T. IN JAPAN, THE GREEN HAIRSTYLE OF SETO (FIRST ANIME ONLY) AND NOAH IS PARED WH AND EVEN REFERRED TO AS A BBAGE. A FEW EXAMPL ... WHAT DO POT OF GREED DO AGA? EXPLANATN POT OF GREED IS AN INIC RD AND WAS A STAPLE BEFORE S BAN THE REAL LIFE RD GAME, SO MANY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS DUEL MONSTERS AND GX HAVE THEIR CKS. IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST SIMPLE RDS THE GAME (THIS IS THE EFFECT TEXT: "DRAW 2 RDS"), BUT THE SERI' TENNCY TO EXPLA THE EFFECTS OF MOST EVERY RD PLAYED QUICKLY MA SCEND TO AS YOU KNOW TERRORY. DEMONSTRATED THIS VIO. FANS LIKE TO JOKE THAT NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT THE RD DO AS A RULT. ASCEND AS ONE OF THE SUBSCRIPTN EMOT FOR THE TWCH MARATHON IS THE ARTWORK OF POT OF GREED. ACRDG TO THE JAPANE FANDOM, THE PHARAOH IS PRETTY MUCH OBSSED WH SILVER. A 4CHAN EQUENTER HAD A HAB OF MAKG "IF MY POST NUMBER ENDS 5" BETS ACPANIED BY PICTUR OF DARK YUGI OM SEASON ZERO AND NSISTENTLY WNG (OR IF WERE FUNNIER, LOSG). HE WAS THEN DUBBED THE "KG OF GETS. APPARENTLY WHEN THEY MEANT "KG OF GAM", THAT CLUS FOM GAM. SAY GOOD-BYE TO EXODIAAAAAAAAAAA! EXPLANATN A REFERENCE TO WHAT INSECTOR HAGA/WEEVIL UNRWOOD SAID WHEN THROWG THE FIVE EXODIA RDS OFF THE BOAT TO DUELIST KGDOM "THE DIGNY OF THE RETARD" EXPLANATN  AN FAMO MISTRANSLATN OF HEART OF THE UNRDOG OM THE HONG KONG SUBS. "DORO! MONSUTA KAADO!!!" EXPLANATN FROM THE ANIME, DURG A CURB-STOMP BATTLE BETWEEN YUGI AND WEEVIL, VIA THE JAPANE DUB'S E OF ENGRISH. FROM THE SAME EPISO, AFTER ANZU STOPS YUGI OM NTUG HIS MOVE LONG AFTER HE FEATED HAGA, HIS "HANASE!" ("LET ME GO!") IS STYLIZED ON THE MENTS FOR THIS CLIP ON YOUTUBE AS "HA☆NA☆SE". ENEMY CONTROLLER, ALONG WH CHARACTERS SHOUTG MANDS, HAS BEE THE BASIS OF A FEW DANCE MIX VIOS. SETO KAIBA, THE MOST TISTIC MAN THE UNIVERSE.EXPLANATN AFTER YU-GI-OH! THE DARK SI OF DIMENSNS, /A/ NCLUD THAT HIS OBSSIVE NATURE, GENI TELLECT, AND BLUNT PERSONALY WERE ALL SIGNS OF AUTISM, AND SIARLY NCLUD THAT HIS AWOME EGO MEANT THAT HE HAD MA TO A SUPERPOWER. 'DUEL ME YUGI' EXPLANATN KAIBA NSTANTLY HOUNDG YAMI YUGI FOR A DUEL, UP TO TRYG TO RURRECT HIM DARKSI OF DIMENSNS, THOUGH HE DON'T SAY THIS ACTUAL LE THE SHOW MUCH. "DAMN YUGI, THAT'S WHY NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WH YOU!" EXPLANATN IN REFERENCE TO THE DS EX MACHA THAT FAVORS YUGI, A POPULAR SPANISH MEME HAS HIM GOG AGAST A LOT OF OTHER CHARACTERS OM OTHER ANCHIS AND "CHEATG" AGAST THEM, AND THEY PLA RPONSE. "AS PRINT OF KAIBA CORP, I CLARE THIS VALID!" EXPLANATN AN ALTERED VERSN OF THE LE KAIBA SAYS WHEN HE SUDNLY SHOWS UP TO DISQUALIFY ZIGIED OM THE KC GRAND CHAMPNSHIP (THE ORIGAL LE WAS "I CLARE THIS MATCH VALID!"), ORIGATG OM THE "KAIBA SCREWS THE RUL" SERI OF YOUTUBE POOP VIOS. IN THE FANDOM, HE'S SUCH A MEMETIC BADASS THAT HE N NEGATE ANYTHG JT BEE HE'S SETO KAIBA. IT ALSO SERV AS A "NON" VARIATN OF ABRIDGED KAIBA'S SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE MONEY!) NEXT EPISO, JONOUCHI DI! EXPLANATN AFTER THE ON THE NEXT NARRATOR (ANZU) BEGGG JONOUCHI TO SURVIVE AND W THE DUEL, BEFORE ANNOUNCG THE AFOREMENTNED TLE. THE JAPANE FANDOM LOV TO POKE FUN ABOUT BY MAKG FAKE EPISO PREVIEW FOR OTHER CHARACTERS. "EXODIA IT'S NOT POSSIBLE"EXPLANATN A RELATIVE NEWER OM THE FOUNTA OF MEM THAT IS THE (SEND SERI) ANIME'S PILOT, BUT FAST-GROWG. IN A VARIATN, KAIBA'S DEFEAT (UALLY "ADAPTED" AS A FOUR-SCREENP SET) HAS BEE S OWN TEMPLATE FOR ALL KDS OF ONLE EBACKS. Y, THIS IS THE REAL D FOR THIS CLIP. EXPLANATN THANKS TO THE YOUTUBE ALGORHM, PEOPLE GOT EXPOSED TO AN OUT-OF-NTEXT CLIP OF THE CRYSTAL BEAST AMBER MAMMOTH. SPECIFILLY, THE DUBBED VERSN WH AN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IMPRSN. THE CLIP GOT POPULAR AND SOON PEOPLE BEGAN POSTG OTHER CRAZY OUT OF NTEXT CLIPS. EVEN GOT ACKNOWLEDGED BY SEAN SCHEMMEL (WHO PLAYED HIM) MAYBE KAIBA WAS RIGHT TO SET UP DUEL AMY. EXPLANATN AT THE TIME, KAIBA'S FORMATN OF DUEL AMY GX WAS MOCKED GIVEN HOW SIMPLISTIC DUEL MONSTERS WAS AT THE TIME. AS THE YEARS HAVE GONE ON AND NEW SUMMONG METHODS HAVE MA THE GAME CREASGLY PLITED (ESPECIALLY PENDULUM AND LK SUMMONG), FANS HAVE JOKED THAT HISTORY HAS VDITED KAIBA. "I N STILL HEAR HIS VOICE..." "GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY" EXPLANATN A PICTURE◊ OF YUGI AND YAMI YUGI THAT WENT VIRAL, SOMEHOW. MANY PEOPLE TOOK TO REPLACG THE TWO CHARACTERS WH CHARACTERS OM OTHER FANDOMS. TOMATO SUBS.EXPLANATN EPISO 30 OF YU-GI-OH! ZEXAL IS A FAMOLY ODDBALL ONE, BEG FOCED ON A GUY OBSSED WH TOMATO AND AN I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM PLOT. BEE OF THIS, 'S FAIRLY MON TO TAKE THE SUBS OM THE EPISO AND TRANSPLANT THEM TO OTHER EPISOS, PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC ON. IT GOT EVEN MORE TRACTN THE ARC-V FANDOM, DUE TO ALSO BOASTG A TOMATO-RELATED MEME. FANDOM GETS A LOT OF EAGE OUT OF "CK" BEG SIAR TO A SLANG TERM FOR MALE GENALIA, AND HOW OFTEN THE MOSTLY MALE CHARACTERS THROUGHOUT THE SERI WILL PARE THEIR CKS AND BOAST ABOUT THE SUPERRY OF THEIR CK. "YOUR X DON'T SERVE A SPOT MY Y, BUT MIGHT MAKE A GOOD ASTER FOR MY DRK!" EXPLANATN ONE OF ESPA ROBA’S L THE DUB, POPULARIZED BY THE ABRIDGED SERI. SOMEONE PHONE SARTOR, HE FALLY GOT JAN TO JO THE CLUB.EXPLANATN WHEN JAN STROYS YUBEL'S FIELD SPELL THE DUB, HE SAYS THAT 'S TIME THAT YUBEL SAW THE LIGHT, WHICH WAS THE CATCHPHRASE OF THE SOCIETY OF LIGHT. "THAT'S RIGHT, I'LL SACRIFICE GOD!"EXPLANATN TAKEN OM THE ONE SCENE WHERE KAIBA TRIBUT HIS OBELISK FOR A GAME-WNG PLAY AGAST ISHIZU. THE LE, OUT OF NTEXT, N BE VOKED WHENEVER SOMEONE WILLGLY ENTERS FANDOM HERY OR FANDOM-ENRAGG MISNCEPTN TERRORY. ALSO ED BY MASTER DUEL PLAYERS WHO DISMANTLE HIGH-RARY RDS OM ARCHETYP THEY'RE NOT G (LIKE THE EGYPTIAN GODS) TO GET THE ROURC TO BUILD THEIR OWN CK. THE AGE OF DUEL DISK OM DUEL MONSTERS TO ENGAGE A DUEL IS WILY POPULAR. "SHADOW REALM" HAS BEE A GO-TO NICKNAME OTHER FANDOMS FOR THEIR SERI' DARKNS-THEMED HELL DIMENSNS. SIARLY, "SENT TO THE SHADOW REALM" AS A DEADLY EUPHEMISM FOR "GO TO HELL."CARD GAME/META
• YGO: THE GAY MOVIE™
• 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 WRERPUBLISHED 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
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GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE

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GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY

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YUGH GAY LIST

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SPOFFS WH THEIR OWN PAG: YU-GI-OH! GX YU-GI-OH! 5DS YU-GI-OH! ZEXAL YU-GI-OH! ARC-V YU-GI-OH! VRAINSFIRST ANIME "YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP RD!" IS PROBABLY THE SERI'S BIGGT. "IT'S TIME TO D-D-DD-DDDDDD-DUEL" OM THE DUB'S TRO IS ANOTHER POPULAR ONE. EXAGGERATED FACIAL EXPRSNS ARE THE BASIS OF MANY A MEME. KAIBA'S CH OM EPISO 200. HECK, JT THE EPISO SELF FOR S OFF-MOL ANIMATN. DARK MARIK'S CRAZY FACIAL EXPRSNS, PECIALLY HIS FAMO NIGHTMARE FACE AT THE END OF EPISO 140. CHARACTERS OM LATER SERI EVENTUALLY DO THE SAME. JOEY'S (AND TRISTAN'S, ON THE OCSN JOEY WAS UNNSC) "CREEPY CH" FACIAL EXPRSNS THE ANIME. THE FACIAL EXPRSNS QUTN WERE SPIRED BY JAPANE WRTLER ANTON INOKI, WHO'S WELL KNOWN FOR HAVG A LARGE CH. AIBOOOOO! EXPLANATN YUGI'S SOUL IS STOLEN DURG THE DOMA ARC, AND WAS PARTIALLY THE PHARAOH'S FLT. THE PHARAOH...DO NOT TAKE WELL. THE SCENE WHERE HE SCREAMED "AIBOOOOOO!" [HIS NICKNAME FOR YUGI, MEANG 'PARTNER'] RAPIDLY BEME A MEME. "IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT HIM! IT'S NOT FAIR!" EXPLANATN THE ENGLISH DUB VERSN OF THE AFOREMENTN SCENE. THIS HAS BEE ED CERTA VIOS ORR TO SHOW ENVY/JEALOY TOWARDS SOMEONE ELSE'S SUATN, PECIALLY IF 'S SOMETHG SEXUAL THE ER WOULD ENJOY EVEN IF THE CHARACTER DON'T. IN JAPAN, THE GREEN HAIRSTYLE OF SETO (FIRST ANIME ONLY) AND NOAH IS PARED WH AND EVEN REFERRED TO AS A BBAGE. A FEW EXAMPL ... WHAT DO POT OF GREED DO AGA? EXPLANATN POT OF GREED IS AN INIC RD AND WAS A STAPLE BEFORE S BAN THE REAL LIFE RD GAME, SO MANY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS DUEL MONSTERS AND GX HAVE THEIR CKS. IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST SIMPLE RDS THE GAME (THIS IS THE EFFECT TEXT: "DRAW 2 RDS"), BUT THE SERI' TENNCY TO EXPLA THE EFFECTS OF MOST EVERY RD PLAYED QUICKLY MA SCEND TO AS YOU KNOW TERRORY. DEMONSTRATED THIS VIO. FANS LIKE TO JOKE THAT NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT THE RD DO AS A RULT. ASCEND AS ONE OF THE SUBSCRIPTN EMOT FOR THE TWCH MARATHON IS THE ARTWORK OF POT OF GREED. ACRDG TO THE JAPANE FANDOM, THE PHARAOH IS PRETTY MUCH OBSSED WH SILVER. A 4CHAN EQUENTER HAD A HAB OF MAKG "IF MY POST NUMBER ENDS 5" BETS ACPANIED BY PICTUR OF DARK YUGI OM SEASON ZERO AND NSISTENTLY WNG (OR IF WERE FUNNIER, LOSG). HE WAS THEN DUBBED THE "KG OF GETS. APPARENTLY WHEN THEY MEANT "KG OF GAM", THAT CLUS FOM GAM. SAY GOOD-BYE TO EXODIAAAAAAAAAAA! EXPLANATN A REFERENCE TO WHAT INSECTOR HAGA/WEEVIL UNRWOOD SAID WHEN THROWG THE FIVE EXODIA RDS OFF THE BOAT TO DUELIST KGDOM "THE DIGNY OF THE RETARD" EXPLANATN  AN FAMO MISTRANSLATN OF HEART OF THE UNRDOG OM THE HONG KONG SUBS. "DORO! MONSUTA KAADO!!!" EXPLANATN FROM THE ANIME, DURG A CURB-STOMP BATTLE BETWEEN YUGI AND WEEVIL, VIA THE JAPANE DUB'S E OF ENGRISH. FROM THE SAME EPISO, AFTER ANZU STOPS YUGI OM NTUG HIS MOVE LONG AFTER HE FEATED HAGA, HIS "HANASE!" ("LET ME GO!") IS STYLIZED ON THE MENTS FOR THIS CLIP ON YOUTUBE AS "HA☆NA☆SE". ENEMY CONTROLLER, ALONG WH CHARACTERS SHOUTG MANDS, HAS BEE THE BASIS OF A FEW DANCE MIX VIOS. SETO KAIBA, THE MOST TISTIC MAN THE UNIVERSE.EXPLANATN AFTER YU-GI-OH! THE DARK SI OF DIMENSNS, /A/ NCLUD THAT HIS OBSSIVE NATURE, GENI TELLECT, AND BLUNT PERSONALY WERE ALL SIGNS OF AUTISM, AND SIARLY NCLUD THAT HIS AWOME EGO MEANT THAT HE HAD MA TO A SUPERPOWER. 'DUEL ME YUGI' EXPLANATN KAIBA NSTANTLY HOUNDG YAMI YUGI FOR A DUEL, UP TO TRYG TO RURRECT HIM DARKSI OF DIMENSNS, THOUGH HE DON'T SAY THIS ACTUAL LE THE SHOW MUCH. "DAMN YUGI, THAT'S WHY NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WH YOU!" EXPLANATN IN REFERENCE TO THE DS EX MACHA THAT FAVORS YUGI, A POPULAR SPANISH MEME HAS HIM GOG AGAST A LOT OF OTHER CHARACTERS OM OTHER ANCHIS AND "CHEATG" AGAST THEM, AND THEY PLA RPONSE. "AS PRINT OF KAIBA CORP, I CLARE THIS VALID!" EXPLANATN AN ALTERED VERSN OF THE LE KAIBA SAYS WHEN HE SUDNLY SHOWS UP TO DISQUALIFY ZIGIED OM THE KC GRAND CHAMPNSHIP (THE ORIGAL LE WAS "I CLARE THIS MATCH VALID!"), ORIGATG OM THE "KAIBA SCREWS THE RUL" SERI OF YOUTUBE POOP VIOS. IN THE FANDOM, HE'S SUCH A MEMETIC BADASS THAT HE N NEGATE ANYTHG JT BEE HE'S SETO KAIBA. IT ALSO SERV AS A "NON" VARIATN OF ABRIDGED KAIBA'S SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE MONEY!) NEXT EPISO, JONOUCHI DI! EXPLANATN AFTER THE ON THE NEXT NARRATOR (ANZU) BEGGG JONOUCHI TO SURVIVE AND W THE DUEL, BEFORE ANNOUNCG THE AFOREMENTNED TLE. THE JAPANE FANDOM LOV TO POKE FUN ABOUT BY MAKG FAKE EPISO PREVIEW FOR OTHER CHARACTERS. "EXODIA IT'S NOT POSSIBLE"EXPLANATN A RELATIVE NEWER OM THE FOUNTA OF MEM THAT IS THE (SEND SERI) ANIME'S PILOT, BUT FAST-GROWG. IN A VARIATN, KAIBA'S DEFEAT (UALLY "ADAPTED" AS A FOUR-SCREENP SET) HAS BEE S OWN TEMPLATE FOR ALL KDS OF ONLE EBACKS. Y, THIS IS THE REAL D FOR THIS CLIP. EXPLANATN THANKS TO THE YOUTUBE ALGORHM, PEOPLE GOT EXPOSED TO AN OUT-OF-NTEXT CLIP OF THE CRYSTAL BEAST AMBER MAMMOTH. SPECIFILLY, THE DUBBED VERSN WH AN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IMPRSN. THE CLIP GOT POPULAR AND SOON PEOPLE BEGAN POSTG OTHER CRAZY OUT OF NTEXT CLIPS. EVEN GOT ACKNOWLEDGED BY SEAN SCHEMMEL (WHO PLAYED HIM) MAYBE KAIBA WAS RIGHT TO SET UP DUEL AMY. EXPLANATN AT THE TIME, KAIBA'S FORMATN OF DUEL AMY GX WAS MOCKED GIVEN HOW SIMPLISTIC DUEL MONSTERS WAS AT THE TIME. AS THE YEARS HAVE GONE ON AND NEW SUMMONG METHODS HAVE MA THE GAME CREASGLY PLITED (ESPECIALLY PENDULUM AND LK SUMMONG), FANS HAVE JOKED THAT HISTORY HAS VDITED KAIBA. "I N STILL HEAR HIS VOICE..." "GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY" EXPLANATN A PICTURE◊ OF YUGI AND YAMI YUGI THAT WENT VIRAL, SOMEHOW. MANY PEOPLE TOOK TO REPLACG THE TWO CHARACTERS WH CHARACTERS OM OTHER FANDOMS. TOMATO SUBS.EXPLANATN EPISO 30 OF YU-GI-OH! ZEXAL IS A FAMOLY ODDBALL ONE, BEG FOCED ON A GUY OBSSED WH TOMATO AND AN I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM PLOT. BEE OF THIS, 'S FAIRLY MON TO TAKE THE SUBS OM THE EPISO AND TRANSPLANT THEM TO OTHER EPISOS, PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC ON. IT GOT EVEN MORE TRACTN THE ARC-V FANDOM, DUE TO ALSO BOASTG A TOMATO-RELATED MEME. FANDOM GETS A LOT OF EAGE OUT OF "CK" BEG SIAR TO A SLANG TERM FOR MALE GENALIA, AND HOW OFTEN THE MOSTLY MALE CHARACTERS THROUGHOUT THE SERI WILL PARE THEIR CKS AND BOAST ABOUT THE SUPERRY OF THEIR CK. "YOUR X DON'T SERVE A SPOT MY Y, BUT MIGHT MAKE A GOOD ASTER FOR MY DRK!" EXPLANATN ONE OF ESPA ROBA’S L THE DUB, POPULARIZED BY THE ABRIDGED SERI. SOMEONE PHONE SARTOR, HE FALLY GOT JAN TO JO THE CLUB.EXPLANATN WHEN JAN STROYS YUBEL'S FIELD SPELL THE DUB, HE SAYS THAT 'S TIME THAT YUBEL SAW THE LIGHT, WHICH WAS THE CATCHPHRASE OF THE SOCIETY OF LIGHT. "THAT'S RIGHT, I'LL SACRIFICE GOD!"EXPLANATN TAKEN OM THE ONE SCENE WHERE KAIBA TRIBUT HIS OBELISK FOR A GAME-WNG PLAY AGAST ISHIZU. THE LE, OUT OF NTEXT, N BE VOKED WHENEVER SOMEONE WILLGLY ENTERS FANDOM HERY OR FANDOM-ENRAGG MISNCEPTN TERRORY. ALSO ED BY MASTER DUEL PLAYERS WHO DISMANTLE HIGH-RARY RDS OM ARCHETYP THEY'RE NOT G (LIKE THE EGYPTIAN GODS) TO GET THE ROURC TO BUILD THEIR OWN CK. THE AGE OF DUEL DISK OM DUEL MONSTERS TO ENGAGE A DUEL IS WILY POPULAR. "SHADOW REALM" HAS BEE A GO-TO NICKNAME OTHER FANDOMS FOR THEIR SERI' DARKNS-THEMED HELL DIMENSNS. SIARLY, "SENT TO THE SHADOW REALM" AS A DEADLY EUPHEMISM FOR "GO TO HELL."CARD GAME/META

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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 WRERPUBLISHED 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

A Brief History of LGBTQ+ MangaAlthough homosexualy Japan was never crimalized to the extent  was  untri such as the USA or the Uned Kgdom, members of the LGBTQ+ muny still face discrimatn on a cultural and social level wh very limed legal protectn. For this reason, is much more mon to fd an English translatn of some of the more mastream shojo manga om the 1970s that we mentned earlier than is to fd a gay romance manga om the 1980s. The term "Bara" ed to refer to gay manga wrten by and for gay men back the 80s, but that term has sce been emed outdated and accurate.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

Instead, manga that is specifilly wrten by and for gay men are currently referred to as "geii", "gei manga", or "gay ics/manga". Gengoroh Tagame is a gay mangaka who has been publishg manga for queer magaz for s. For an si sop on gay manga and BL check out this transcript om the “Gay Comics Art Japan" panel hosted by the Toronto Comic Arts Ftival: TCAF 2015 – Gengoroh Tagame Talks Gay Manga, “Bara, ” BL and Snlatn.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GAY” AND “HOMOSEXUAL"? IS ONLY BY GENR?

Boy's Love and yuri protagonists seldom refer to themselv or their partners as homosexual, or gay, queer, lbian, bisexual, etc., nor do they typilly explore the reali of livg life as a queer person. Fumi Yoshaga's seri, What Did You Eat Yterday?, which follows a gay uple livg morn day Tokyo, was nomated for the first ever Manga Taishō award 2008 and won the 2019 Kodansha Manga Award.

I Thk our Son is GayBy Okura; translatn, Leo McDonagh; letterg, Lor Prtt.

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

Supportive Tomoko has an klg Hiroki might be gay, but she's gog to let him figure out for himself. Their liv sudnly change wh the arrival at their doorstep of a hulkg, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who clar himself the widower of Yaichi's tranged gay tw, Ryoji. What follows is an unprecented and heartbreakg look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japane gay culture: how 's been affected by the Wt, and how the next generatn n change the prenceptns about and prejudic agast .

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

Not only is high schooler Tasu Kaname the new kid town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay.

The other kids whisper that Sanada keeps to himself bee he's secretly gay. In the narrative, a hard-workg middle-aged gay uple Tokyo e to enjoy the fer moments of life through food. Male homosexual narrativ var genr and media—om "high-brow" lerature by distguished female thors to "pornographic" ic books produced and distributed by amatrs—have attracted the attentn of a number of cultural crics Japan and abroad.

This book reprents the first extensive cril attempt to exame Japane women's narrativ of male homosexualy/homoeroticism, addrsg not only popular culture genr, but also the nsirable body of crilly acclaimed lerary works (wh English translatns of the origal works).