Contents:
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- THE SANDMAN CREATOR NEIL GAIMAN SAYS SHOW’S CRICS ‘DON’T LIKE GAY OR BLACK PEOPLE’
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Go to gaybros. Jt, to me I felt some of the story got siled and had sloppy pacg jt to throw some gay scen to make the “bigots” angry.
It’s not like Amerin Gods (bis the b driver scene) where the gay or even straight but shockg scen didn’t have anythg to add to the story. The actor portrayed him so well, but I thk a lot of his growth was stunted to jt shoehorn a bunch of gay filler; to remd the dience that he’s gay. The scene where he slept wh Rose’ gay iend was unnecsary.
That guy was jt add later to be another remr that Corthian is gay. For me, the way they handled Alex Burgs beg gay, like the novel, was a lot more tasteful and subtle. The der scene, which was mostly novel-accurate, still was a b odd throwg an extra unnecsary gay scene the kchen.
SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
Havg gay or diverse characters was never an issue. ) rmed him that “due to the number of gay characters The Sandman they would be boyttg and we had to repent. ” The thor add: “When I was wrg , and today, I had gay iends, I had trans iends.
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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
The Corthian fails to nform to harmful long-nng trop such as the “Sissy Villa” and the “Depraved Homosexual”, where evil characters are fed by their flamboyance and femy – suatg that queerns is herently bad and directly rponsible for their nefar acts the procs. Wh the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope alive and well (still ragg over Killg Eve), viewers expected Rose’s iend to befall a siar fate to his other victims – whout ey and, well, ad. Of urse Netflix mak every relatnship gay The Sandman.
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.
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.
THE SANDMAN CREATOR NEIL GAIMAN SAYS SHOW’S CRICS ‘DON’T LIKE GAY OR BLACK PEOPLE’
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. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.
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