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• MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIED
• MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIEDGAY PRIT PRIANDREW CA WILL BEE THE FIRST CLERGYMAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S FIVE-CENTURY HISTORY TO MARRY HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER, FIANCE OF A BAN BY CHURCH LEARS.NI HWORLD EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2014 9:45PM EDT THE DAILY BEASTA PROLIFIC THIEF BROKE TO THE VTRY OF A NORTH LONDON CHURCH; GRABBED THE WEEKLY LLECTN, AN IPHONE AND SOME SILVER, AND BEGAN HIS GETAWAY. HE PHED PAST A FEMALE CURATE AND RACED TOWARDS THE EX, BUT FATHER ANDREW CA GOT TO THE DOORWAY FIRST. TALL AND BROAD-CHTED, HE BELLOWED: “GET ON YOUR KNE!” THE ECCLIASTIL CIZEN’S ARRT WAS WILY CELEBRATED BRA AT THE TIME. TWO YEARS LATER, CA IS ABOUT TO MAKE HEADL AGA, BUT THIS TIME HIS REER IS HANGG THE BALANCE. DEFYG THE CHURCH’S ORRS, HE WILL BEE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMAN TO ENTER TO A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.THE CHURCH, WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF THE 80 LN-STRONG WORLDWI ANGLIN COMMUNN, HAS ALWAYS FED MARRIAGE AS A NTRACT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND REFED TO REGNIZE BRA’S LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE, WHICH TO FORCE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. CHURCH OFFICIALS ARE FUR THAT CA IS IGNORG A LG BY THE HOE OF BISHOPS, WHICH BANS CLERGYMEN OM PERFORMG SAME-SEX WEDDGS THEIR CHURCH AND ORRS GAY VIRS NOT TO MARRY.DISREGARDG THE DIKTAT, CA, 50, AND HIS FIANCé, STEPHEN FORHEW, 40, OFFICIALLY REGISTERED THEIR TENTN TO MARRY AT CAMN TOWN HALL LONDON LAST WEEK. THEY WANT TO KEEP THE LOTN OF THEIR JUNE WEDDG SECRET SE ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTN, BUT NCE WON’T BE TAKG PLACE A CHURCH SPE CA’S 28 YEARS THE CLERGY. “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE JOB, BUT I’M FDG REALLY QUE HARD TO LOVE THE CHURCH AT THE MOMENT,” HE SAID, STROKG ONE OF HIS TWO HANDSOME BENGAL TS. “I FEEL VERY ANGRY AND QUE BTER ABOUT THE WAY THE CHURCH IS BEHAVG.” THE PRIT, WHO OVERSE TWO PARISH NORTH-WT LONDON, DISCLOSED TO THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE HAD BEEN HLED ONT OF HIS BISHOP LAST WEEK. CA SAID HE WAS SUMMONED TO THE HOME OF THE RT REVD PETER WHEATLEY, BISHOP OF EDMONTON, ALONG WH A CHURCH HUMAN ROURC OFFICER, AND REPRIMAND FOR HIS OPEN FIANCE OF THE ECCLIASTIL GUIL.“HE WAS OFFEND ABOUT THE FACT THAT I WAS BEG PUBLIC MY OPPOSN TO THE BISHOPS, AND I SAID, ‘WELL, ACTUALLY I THK YOU ARE WRONG AND I’M SORRY BUT THIS IS NSCIENT DISSENT,’” CA SAID. “I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR 15 YEARS— WAS AN EXTRAORDARILY AWKWARD AND DIFFICULT THG.”CA SAID THE BISHOP TRIED TO NVCE HIM TO ABANDON HIS WEDDG PLANS AND ORRED HIM TO STOP CRICIZG THE CHURCH’S POSN. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS NO FORMAL GUIL FOR BISHOPS ON HANDLG MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WHO DISREGARD LGS ON GAY MARRIAGE, BUT A CHURCH OFFICIAL SAID CA ULD BE SANCTNED OR EVEN DISMISSED FOR “NDUCT UNBEG” THE CLERGY. WHEATLEY CLED TO MENT ON THE MEETG.THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH BROKE OM THE VATIN 1534 SO THAT HENRY VIII ULD TAKE A SEND WIFE, HAS OFTEN BEEN CELEBRATED FOR S ACCEPTG AND OPEN ATTU. IN FACT, CA TIMATED THAT A THIRD OF THE CLERGY LONDON ARE GAY. A CLERGYMAN, WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE NAMED, CLAIMED THAT AT LEAST 13 OF THE CHURCH’S 42 BISHOPS WERE ALSO GAY, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NOT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED . “GAY PEOPLE HAVE VERY OFTEN A HEIGHTENED SENSIVY TO THGS OF BETY AND SPIRUALY,” CA SUGGTED. “THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH.”FOR GENERATNS, GAY PRITS WERE ACCEPTED TO THE CHURCH AS LONG AS THEY WERE WILLG TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT . THIS “WOOLLY” APPROACH TO RELIG DOCTRE HAS BEEN SORELY TTED RECENT YEARS WH THE CHURCH DIVID OVER FEMALE BISHOPS AND GAY MARRIAGE. CONONTED BY THE BRISH ERNMENT’S TRODUCTN OF GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH WAS SUDNLY FACED WH A DILEMMA: ABOUT A THIRD OF BRISH WEDDGS ARE CURRENTLY HELD CHURCH, LEAVG THE BISHOPS TO CI WHETHER THEY WOULD OPEN THEIR DOORS TO A NEW SET OF MARRIAG.THE MOST SENR CLERGYMAN THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, JT WELBY, THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE ATTEMPT TO UPHOLD TRADNAL TEACHGS WAS BEG PROBLEMATIC. “THERE IS A GREAT FEAR THAT OUR CISNS WILL LEAD TO THE REJECTN OF LGBT PEOPLE, TO IRRELEVANCE A CHANGG SOCIETY, TO BEHAVR THAT MANY SEE AK TO RACISM,” HE SAID.DPE HIS WARNGS, THE HOE OF BISHOPS ISSUED AN UNEXPECTEDLY STRGENT STATEMENT ON VALENTE’S DAY. THERE WOULD BE NO SAME-SEX WEDDGS CHURCH, NO PRAYER CEREMONI—UNLS THEY CLUD A REPRIMAND FOR THE UPLE—AND ABSOLUTELY NO GAY CLERGY WERE ALLOWED TO MARRY.CONSERVATIVE GROUPS THE CHURCH WELED THE LG. THE REV. ANDREW SYM, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ANGLIN MASTREAM, SAID: “THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY IS WRONG.”HE WAS AMONG THOSE BEECHG CA TO ACCEPT THE WORD OF HIS SUPERRS. “IN ANY ANIZATN IF PEOPLE GO AGAST WHAT THEIR LEARS SAY ’S GOG TO E DIFFICULTI. THERE IS A NVERSATN GOG ON SI THE CHURCH ABOUT THIS AND MR. CA PRUMABLY FEELS THAT HE WANTS TO PRE-EMPT THAT NVERSATN. HE THKS HE HAS THE RIGHT TO OVERTURN CENTURI OF CHRISTIAN TEACHG JT ON HIS OWN THORY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE VAST MAJORY OF CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. WE’VE GOT A WTERN CULTURE THAT HAS CID TO CHANGE THIS THE LAST FEW YEARS; ’S A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS VIEW SO MR. CA IS VERY MUCH THE MORY.”AT THE CENTER OF THIS MAELSTROM, ’S BS AS UAL FOR CA. THIS WEEK A MASSIVE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT BEGAN AT THE STUNNG RED-BRICK ST JAM’ CHURCH WT HAMPSTEAD, WHERE SERVIC WERE FIRST HELD 1880. HE HAS RAISED MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS TO TRANSFORM THE CHURCH TO A Fé, CRèCHE AND THE FIRST CHURCH THE UNTRY TO HOE A MAJOR BRANCH OF THE POST OFFICE.THE CHAIRS, STATU AND RELIG INS, SOME OF WHICH DATE BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY, WERE BEG HURRIEDLY PACKED AWAY; A PAIR OF J LAY ON THEIR BACKS ON THE DAIS.AT THE FAL SE MEETG BEFORE NSTCTN BEGAN, CA WAS A NO-NONSENSE MOOD. DRSED A RED BLAZER, HE REFED TO ACCEPT THE BUILRS’ APOLOGI FOR A ONE-WEEK LAY. “SERLY, LET’S NOT START SLIPPG AT THE FIRST MEETG,” HE SAID. AFTER A SPELL OF FUTILE RISTANCE OM THE NSTCTN TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGER, THEY WERE BACK ON SCHLE AND CA SAT BACK HIS CHAIR SATISFIED.“I’VE BEEN TOLD TO BUTTON MY LIP,” HE SAID, SG.HIS SCHEME TO RE-TEGRATE THE CHURCH BACK TO THE CENTER OF THIS URBAN MUNY HAS WON CA A LEGN OF ADMIRERS. “UNTIL STEPHEN AND I GOT ENGAGED I WAS SEEN AS A SORT OF MOL VIR FOR G UP WH THIS IA AND PHG THROUGH,” HE SAID. “BUT I’VE JT BEE A PROBLEM NOW.”HOPPG TO HIS RACG GREEN MI—“JT DON’T LL ME A TRENDY VIR”—HE MA HIS WAY TO THE NEXT APPOTMENT, A SCHOOL BOARD MEETG. “ALLOWG WOMEN PRITS WAS THE START OF ,” HE SAID ON THE WAY. “THE SAME APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE LEADS TO ACCEPTG THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE GAY PEOPLE. THE WISHY-WASHY MORAT THE MIDDLE ACCEPTED WOMEN BEE, ‘WELL, I’M MARRIED TO A WOMAN’ OR ‘ JT SEEMS LIKE THE RIGHT THG TO DO’ BUT THEY HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THE THEOLOGIL IMPLITNS.”WHEN THE HOE OF BISHOPS MA S LG, CA WAS APPALLED. “IT MAK LOOK LIKE NEANRTHALS QUE ANKLY. WE LOOK LIKE RACISTS,” HE SAID, AS HE WEAVED AND OUT OF THE BY LONDON TRAFFIC.EACH CHURCH WH THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, WHICH NTU TO SPREAD AND GROW OM S ROOTS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HAS TAKEN S OWN VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE. GENE ROBSON BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CLERGYMAN TO BE NSECRATED AS A BISHOP THE U.S. EPISPAL CHURCH 2003, WHILE SOME OF THE AIN CHURCH HAVE TAKEN CREASGLY NSERVATIVE STEPS.“THE UGANDAN CHURCH HAS JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S GOG TO START PERFORMG EXORCISMS ON PEOPLE TO CURE THEM OM BEG GAY,” HE SAID. “ONE WOULD HOPE, ALL CHRISTIAN HONTY, THAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WOULD SPEAK OUT. THERE’S A SORT OF STRANGE REVERSE-LONIALISM WHERE THE BISHOPS THE WT DON’T FEEL EE TO CRICIZE THE AIN BISHOPS, AND IF WE DO THE AINS ACCE OF LONIALISM, WELL ACTUALLY NO, YOU’RE JT PLA WRONG AND YOU’RE DOG BAD THGS. THEY’RE ALL A B NSERVATIVE AND NASTY.”FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS ANOTHER CHURCHMAN WH UNFAVORABLE VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY. “MAY HE RT PEACE,” CA SAID. “I THK HE WAS A VERY SAD AND RATHER PATHETIC PERSON REALLY, I TAKE NO PLEASURE ANY MAN’S ATH I JT HOPE HE NOW SE THE ERROR OF THE WAY HE’D BEEN BEHAVG. IF WE BELIEVE HEAVEN AND FIVENS WHEN HE GETS THERE HE’LL BE FOR A TERRIBLE SHOCK.”CA DID NOT TEND TO BEE A E CéLèBRE. HE PROPOSED TO FORSHEW ON FEBARY 14TH, THE SAME DAY THAT THE BISHOPS WERE CIDG TO CURTAIL THE CLERGY’S ACCS TO BRA’S NEW GAY MARRIAGE LAWS. “THE BISHOPS MA AN ISSUE OF , NOT ME,” HE SAID.FORSHEW, AN IT DIRECTOR AND ATHEIST, SAID HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HIS PARTNER’S OPENNS ULD BRG A PREMATURE END TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. “I FD HIS BRAVERY EXTRAORDARY,” HE SAID. “IF PUNIVE ACTN WAS TAKEN BY THE CHURCH WOULD BE VERY PAFUL AND EXTREMELY TRMATIC FOR HIM.”CA’S PLACE HISTORY WAS SECURED OVER A STEAK DNER OKED AT HOME ON VALENTE’S DAY: “I MA STEPHEN’S FAVORE MEAL AND AT THE END OF I SAID, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ AND HE SAID, ‘GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE,’ AND I GOT DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND SAID WILL YOU MARRY ME? AND HE SAID Y.” NI H
• GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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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
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MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIED

Defyg the church’s orrs, he will bee the first Church of England clergyman to enter to a same-sex church, which is at the heart of the 80 ln-strong worldwi Anglin Communn, has always fed marriage as a ntract between a man and a woman, and refed to regnize Bra’s legalizatn of gay marriage, which to force at the end of the month.

Church officials are fur that Ca is ignorg a lg by the Hoe of Bishops, which bans clergymen om performg same-sex weddgs their church and orrs gay virs not to marry. The Church of England has no formal guil for bishops on handlg members of the clergy who disregard lgs on gay marriage, but a church official said Ca uld be sanctned or even dismissed for “nduct unbeg” the clergy. In fact, Ca timated that a third of the clergy London are gay.

A clergyman, who did not wish to be named, claimed that at least 13 of the church’s 42 bishops were also gay, although they have not publicly acknowledged . “Gay people have very often a heightened sensivy to thgs of bety and spirualy, ” Ca suggted. “There are an awful lot of gay people the church.

MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIEDGAY PRIT PRIANDREW CA WILL BEE THE FIRST CLERGYMAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S FIVE-CENTURY HISTORY TO MARRY HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER, FIANCE OF A BAN BY CHURCH LEARS.NI HWORLD EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2014 9:45PM EDT THE DAILY BEASTA PROLIFIC THIEF BROKE TO THE VTRY OF A NORTH LONDON CHURCH; GRABBED THE WEEKLY LLECTN, AN IPHONE AND SOME SILVER, AND BEGAN HIS GETAWAY. HE PHED PAST A FEMALE CURATE AND RACED TOWARDS THE EX, BUT FATHER ANDREW CA GOT TO THE DOORWAY FIRST. TALL AND BROAD-CHTED, HE BELLOWED: “GET ON YOUR KNE!” THE ECCLIASTIL CIZEN’S ARRT WAS WILY CELEBRATED BRA AT THE TIME. TWO YEARS LATER, CA IS ABOUT TO MAKE HEADL AGA, BUT THIS TIME HIS REER IS HANGG THE BALANCE. DEFYG THE CHURCH’S ORRS, HE WILL BEE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMAN TO ENTER TO A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.THE CHURCH, WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF THE 80 LN-STRONG WORLDWI ANGLIN COMMUNN, HAS ALWAYS FED MARRIAGE AS A NTRACT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND REFED TO REGNIZE BRA’S LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE, WHICH TO FORCE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. CHURCH OFFICIALS ARE FUR THAT CA IS IGNORG A LG BY THE HOE OF BISHOPS, WHICH BANS CLERGYMEN OM PERFORMG SAME-SEX WEDDGS THEIR CHURCH AND ORRS GAY VIRS NOT TO MARRY.DISREGARDG THE DIKTAT, CA, 50, AND HIS FIANCé, STEPHEN FORHEW, 40, OFFICIALLY REGISTERED THEIR TENTN TO MARRY AT CAMN TOWN HALL LONDON LAST WEEK. THEY WANT TO KEEP THE LOTN OF THEIR JUNE WEDDG SECRET SE ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTN, BUT NCE WON’T BE TAKG PLACE A CHURCH SPE CA’S 28 YEARS THE CLERGY. “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE JOB, BUT I’M FDG REALLY QUE HARD TO LOVE THE CHURCH AT THE MOMENT,” HE SAID, STROKG ONE OF HIS TWO HANDSOME BENGAL TS. “I FEEL VERY ANGRY AND QUE BTER ABOUT THE WAY THE CHURCH IS BEHAVG.” THE PRIT, WHO OVERSE TWO PARISH NORTH-WT LONDON, DISCLOSED TO THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE HAD BEEN HLED ONT OF HIS BISHOP LAST WEEK. CA SAID HE WAS SUMMONED TO THE HOME OF THE RT REVD PETER WHEATLEY, BISHOP OF EDMONTON, ALONG WH A CHURCH HUMAN ROURC OFFICER, AND REPRIMAND FOR HIS OPEN FIANCE OF THE ECCLIASTIL GUIL.“HE WAS OFFEND ABOUT THE FACT THAT I WAS BEG PUBLIC MY OPPOSN TO THE BISHOPS, AND I SAID, ‘WELL, ACTUALLY I THK YOU ARE WRONG AND I’M SORRY BUT THIS IS NSCIENT DISSENT,’” CA SAID. “I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR 15 YEARS— WAS AN EXTRAORDARILY AWKWARD AND DIFFICULT THG.”CA SAID THE BISHOP TRIED TO NVCE HIM TO ABANDON HIS WEDDG PLANS AND ORRED HIM TO STOP CRICIZG THE CHURCH’S POSN. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS NO FORMAL GUIL FOR BISHOPS ON HANDLG MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WHO DISREGARD LGS ON GAY MARRIAGE, BUT A CHURCH OFFICIAL SAID CA ULD BE SANCTNED OR EVEN DISMISSED FOR “NDUCT UNBEG” THE CLERGY. WHEATLEY CLED TO MENT ON THE MEETG.THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH BROKE OM THE VATIN 1534 SO THAT HENRY VIII ULD TAKE A SEND WIFE, HAS OFTEN BEEN CELEBRATED FOR S ACCEPTG AND OPEN ATTU. IN FACT, CA TIMATED THAT A THIRD OF THE CLERGY LONDON ARE GAY. A CLERGYMAN, WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE NAMED, CLAIMED THAT AT LEAST 13 OF THE CHURCH’S 42 BISHOPS WERE ALSO GAY, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NOT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED . “GAY PEOPLE HAVE VERY OFTEN A HEIGHTENED SENSIVY TO THGS OF BETY AND SPIRUALY,” CA SUGGTED. “THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH.”FOR GENERATNS, GAY PRITS WERE ACCEPTED TO THE CHURCH AS LONG AS THEY WERE WILLG TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT . THIS “WOOLLY” APPROACH TO RELIG DOCTRE HAS BEEN SORELY TTED RECENT YEARS WH THE CHURCH DIVID OVER FEMALE BISHOPS AND GAY MARRIAGE. CONONTED BY THE BRISH ERNMENT’S TRODUCTN OF GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH WAS SUDNLY FACED WH A DILEMMA: ABOUT A THIRD OF BRISH WEDDGS ARE CURRENTLY HELD CHURCH, LEAVG THE BISHOPS TO CI WHETHER THEY WOULD OPEN THEIR DOORS TO A NEW SET OF MARRIAG.THE MOST SENR CLERGYMAN THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, JT WELBY, THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE ATTEMPT TO UPHOLD TRADNAL TEACHGS WAS BEG PROBLEMATIC. “THERE IS A GREAT FEAR THAT OUR CISNS WILL LEAD TO THE REJECTN OF LGBT PEOPLE, TO IRRELEVANCE A CHANGG SOCIETY, TO BEHAVR THAT MANY SEE AK TO RACISM,” HE SAID.DPE HIS WARNGS, THE HOE OF BISHOPS ISSUED AN UNEXPECTEDLY STRGENT STATEMENT ON VALENTE’S DAY. THERE WOULD BE NO SAME-SEX WEDDGS CHURCH, NO PRAYER CEREMONI—UNLS THEY CLUD A REPRIMAND FOR THE UPLE—AND ABSOLUTELY NO GAY CLERGY WERE ALLOWED TO MARRY.CONSERVATIVE GROUPS THE CHURCH WELED THE LG. THE REV. ANDREW SYM, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ANGLIN MASTREAM, SAID: “THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY IS WRONG.”HE WAS AMONG THOSE BEECHG CA TO ACCEPT THE WORD OF HIS SUPERRS. “IN ANY ANIZATN IF PEOPLE GO AGAST WHAT THEIR LEARS SAY ’S GOG TO E DIFFICULTI. THERE IS A NVERSATN GOG ON SI THE CHURCH ABOUT THIS AND MR. CA PRUMABLY FEELS THAT HE WANTS TO PRE-EMPT THAT NVERSATN. HE THKS HE HAS THE RIGHT TO OVERTURN CENTURI OF CHRISTIAN TEACHG JT ON HIS OWN THORY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE VAST MAJORY OF CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. WE’VE GOT A WTERN CULTURE THAT HAS CID TO CHANGE THIS THE LAST FEW YEARS; ’S A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS VIEW SO MR. CA IS VERY MUCH THE MORY.”AT THE CENTER OF THIS MAELSTROM, ’S BS AS UAL FOR CA. THIS WEEK A MASSIVE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT BEGAN AT THE STUNNG RED-BRICK ST JAM’ CHURCH WT HAMPSTEAD, WHERE SERVIC WERE FIRST HELD 1880. HE HAS RAISED MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS TO TRANSFORM THE CHURCH TO A Fé, CRèCHE AND THE FIRST CHURCH THE UNTRY TO HOE A MAJOR BRANCH OF THE POST OFFICE.THE CHAIRS, STATU AND RELIG INS, SOME OF WHICH DATE BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY, WERE BEG HURRIEDLY PACKED AWAY; A PAIR OF J LAY ON THEIR BACKS ON THE DAIS.AT THE FAL SE MEETG BEFORE NSTCTN BEGAN, CA WAS A NO-NONSENSE MOOD. DRSED A RED BLAZER, HE REFED TO ACCEPT THE BUILRS’ APOLOGI FOR A ONE-WEEK LAY. “SERLY, LET’S NOT START SLIPPG AT THE FIRST MEETG,” HE SAID. AFTER A SPELL OF FUTILE RISTANCE OM THE NSTCTN TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGER, THEY WERE BACK ON SCHLE AND CA SAT BACK HIS CHAIR SATISFIED.“I’VE BEEN TOLD TO BUTTON MY LIP,” HE SAID, SG.HIS SCHEME TO RE-TEGRATE THE CHURCH BACK TO THE CENTER OF THIS URBAN MUNY HAS WON CA A LEGN OF ADMIRERS. “UNTIL STEPHEN AND I GOT ENGAGED I WAS SEEN AS A SORT OF MOL VIR FOR G UP WH THIS IA AND PHG THROUGH,” HE SAID. “BUT I’VE JT BEE A PROBLEM NOW.”HOPPG TO HIS RACG GREEN MI—“JT DON’T LL ME A TRENDY VIR”—HE MA HIS WAY TO THE NEXT APPOTMENT, A SCHOOL BOARD MEETG. “ALLOWG WOMEN PRITS WAS THE START OF ,” HE SAID ON THE WAY. “THE SAME APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE LEADS TO ACCEPTG THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE GAY PEOPLE. THE WISHY-WASHY MORAT THE MIDDLE ACCEPTED WOMEN BEE, ‘WELL, I’M MARRIED TO A WOMAN’ OR ‘ JT SEEMS LIKE THE RIGHT THG TO DO’ BUT THEY HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THE THEOLOGIL IMPLITNS.”WHEN THE HOE OF BISHOPS MA S LG, CA WAS APPALLED. “IT MAK LOOK LIKE NEANRTHALS QUE ANKLY. WE LOOK LIKE RACISTS,” HE SAID, AS HE WEAVED AND OUT OF THE BY LONDON TRAFFIC.EACH CHURCH WH THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, WHICH NTU TO SPREAD AND GROW OM S ROOTS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HAS TAKEN S OWN VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE. GENE ROBSON BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CLERGYMAN TO BE NSECRATED AS A BISHOP THE U.S. EPISPAL CHURCH 2003, WHILE SOME OF THE AIN CHURCH HAVE TAKEN CREASGLY NSERVATIVE STEPS.“THE UGANDAN CHURCH HAS JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S GOG TO START PERFORMG EXORCISMS ON PEOPLE TO CURE THEM OM BEG GAY,” HE SAID. “ONE WOULD HOPE, ALL CHRISTIAN HONTY, THAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WOULD SPEAK OUT. THERE’S A SORT OF STRANGE REVERSE-LONIALISM WHERE THE BISHOPS THE WT DON’T FEEL EE TO CRICIZE THE AIN BISHOPS, AND IF WE DO THE AINS ACCE OF LONIALISM, WELL ACTUALLY NO, YOU’RE JT PLA WRONG AND YOU’RE DOG BAD THGS. THEY’RE ALL A B NSERVATIVE AND NASTY.”FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS ANOTHER CHURCHMAN WH UNFAVORABLE VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY. “MAY HE RT PEACE,” CA SAID. “I THK HE WAS A VERY SAD AND RATHER PATHETIC PERSON REALLY, I TAKE NO PLEASURE ANY MAN’S ATH I JT HOPE HE NOW SE THE ERROR OF THE WAY HE’D BEEN BEHAVG. IF WE BELIEVE HEAVEN AND FIVENS WHEN HE GETS THERE HE’LL BE FOR A TERRIBLE SHOCK.”CA DID NOT TEND TO BEE A E CéLèBRE. HE PROPOSED TO FORSHEW ON FEBARY 14TH, THE SAME DAY THAT THE BISHOPS WERE CIDG TO CURTAIL THE CLERGY’S ACCS TO BRA’S NEW GAY MARRIAGE LAWS. “THE BISHOPS MA AN ISSUE OF , NOT ME,” HE SAID.FORSHEW, AN IT DIRECTOR AND ATHEIST, SAID HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HIS PARTNER’S OPENNS ULD BRG A PREMATURE END TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. “I FD HIS BRAVERY EXTRAORDARY,” HE SAID. “IF PUNIVE ACTN WAS TAKEN BY THE CHURCH WOULD BE VERY PAFUL AND EXTREMELY TRMATIC FOR HIM.”CA’S PLACE HISTORY WAS SECURED OVER A STEAK DNER OKED AT HOME ON VALENTE’S DAY: “I MA STEPHEN’S FAVORE MEAL AND AT THE END OF I SAID, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ AND HE SAID, ‘GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE,’ AND I GOT DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND SAID WILL YOU MARRY ME? AND HE SAID Y.” NI H

”For generatns, gay prits were accepted to the church as long as they were willg to keep quiet about .

GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

This “woolly” approach to relig doctre has been sorely tted recent years wh the church divid over female bishops and gay marriage. Cononted by the Brish ernment’s troductn of gay marriage, the church was sudnly faced wh a dilemma: About a third of Brish weddgs are currently held church, leavg the bishops to ci whether they would open their doors to a new set of most senr clergyman the Anglin Communn, Jt Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, acknowledged that the attempt to uphold tradnal teachgs was beg problematic. There would be no same-sex weddgs church, no prayer ceremoni—unls they clud a reprimand for the uple—and absolutely no gay clergy were allowed to marry.

“The same approach to scripture leads to acceptg that gay people are gay people. We look like racists, ” he said, as he weaved and out of the by London church wh the Anglin Communn, which ntu to spread and grow om s roots the Church of England, has taken s own view on gay marriage. Gene Robson beme the first openly gay clergyman to be nsecrated as a bishop the U.

“The Ugandan church has jt announced that ’s gog to start performg exorcisms on people to cure them om beg gay, ” he said. ”Fred Phelps, who died last week, was another churchman wh unfavorable views on homosexualy. He proposed to Forshew on Febary 14th, the same day that the bishops were cidg to curtail the clergy’s accs to Bra’s new gay marriage laws.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

France's Prottant church has celebrated s first weddg of same-sex pastors, thori said Monday, six years after gay clergy first won the right to marry.

"It remas a touchy subject, " he told general, Prottant doctre do not nsir marriage to be a sacrament, but the church n give s blsg civil ceremoni to both heterosexual and homosexual upl. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr.

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns.

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

He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say.

I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

ONCE A PRIT, ALWAYS A PRIT—EVEN AFTER A GAY WEDDG?

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, PRIESTLY CELIBACY, AND GAY MARRIAGE

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?

I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri.

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.

ANONYMO IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PRENTS NUNDM FOR MEDIA – HE’S A ‘GAY DEMOCRAT MARRIED TO A MAN’

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.

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