The First Openly Gay Doll (for everyone) Was a Trailblazer Toy
Contents:
- 1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT
- WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
- MIB VTAGE GAY BOB DOLL 1977 LGBTQ ANATOMILLY CORRECT - MUST SEE
- GAY BOB DOLL MAGAZE ADVERT, 1978
1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT
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1977 Origal Gay bob Doll - RARE - anatomilly rrect 1977 Origal Gay bob Doll - RARE - wh origal shippg box {[currentAmount|currency]} {[em. In 1977, Gay Bob me out of the closet. Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs.
Gay Bob's packagg proudly (and wordily) explaed what “g out of the closet” meant:. "Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. Gay people are no different than straight people.
WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
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But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you! At face value, Gay Bob’s msage about the mers of g out seems earnt, pog the valu of urage, honty, and livg thentilly; however, the brandg and sign of the Gay Bob doll are brash.
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Gay Bob was created by an advertisg executive named Harvey Rosenberg. Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development. We had somethg to learn om the gay movement, jt like we did om the black civil rights movement, and the women’s movement and that is havg the urage to stand up and say, ‘I have a right to be what I am.
While Rosenberg did not intify as gay, he stated that he had created the doll to liberate men om tradnal sexual rol. Acrdg to Rosenberg, regardls of a person’s sexualy, Gay Bob uld serve as an example for havg the urage to “e out of the closet” and be your te, thentic self. Durg a prs blz for the doll’s release, Rosenberg also dited that Gay Bob was a spoof of other “amorpho, sexls dolls, ” which was undoubtedly a reference to Mattel’s KenTM and BarbieTM.
GAY BOB DOLL MAGAZE ADVERT, 1978
He had plans to release addnal dolls that would have ma up the rt of Gay Bob’s fay (a mother, father, and two brothers); however, the other dolls were never produced. Gay Bob dolls were sold via mail-orr advertisements gay magaz and a few boutique shops New York Cy and San Francis. Consequently, ten thoand more dolls were produced, and Gay Bob was btowed wh Esquire magaze's "Dub Achievement Award" 1978.
Standg roughly 13 ch tall, Gay Bob was KenTM doll-que.
A handsome and mascule doll, Gay Bob had a short feathery blon crew cut and was signed to look like a cross between Pl Newman and Robert Redford.