What About Gay Bob? | Natural History Mm

Contents:

• LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• 1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT

LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL

For your entertament, we prent a round-up of the gay ins om the archiv. From Totem Internatnal: Billy, the origal out and proud gay doll and Carlos, Billy’s boyiend.

Billy, the out and proud gay doll, by Totem Internatnal.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

Billy was troduced 1997, he was based on drawgs created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal as “the first out and proud gay doll”, although that distctn actually belongs to Gay Bob, troduced 1977. Gay Bob, the actual first gay doll, plete wh his closet and a talog promisg many tongue--cheek-outfs that didn’t actually exist. Gay Bob was also anatomilly rrect – although his proportns were a ltle more most than for the Billy le.

Billy had a number of guis based on stereotypil gay characters, cludg Sailor Billy, Cowboy Billy, Master Billy and San Francis Billy. Billy and Carlos donned drag 1999, wh Billy drsed a ggham checkered pantsu as “Dolly” and Carlos as “Carmen” a polka dot outf remiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, an event which lnched the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat. The limed edn Gay Gam Billy and the equally hard-to-fd BPS Carlos doll.

1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT

The “Billy Doll” created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal was known as “the first out and proud gay doll” McKterick who origally signed Billy as limed-edn n of 1, 200 dolls created to benef an AIDS chary cid to mass market his creatn after the entire first lot sold out a matter of days.