How Gay Bob, the World's First Openly Gay Doll, Came to Be

MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

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Jun 12, 2020Failed to save articlePlease try agaThis article is more than 3 years 1860s Germany, Karl Herich Ulrichs urged other gay people to publicly reveal their sexual orientatn. In 1914, Magn Hirschfeld wrote of the revolutnary potential of rpected gay women and men g out en masse.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

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By the late 1960s, g out was treated wh the utmost importance wh the gay rights movement. And 1977, Gay Bob arrived. It was the same year that Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay man elected to public office California.

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THE STORY BEHD GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OUT-AND-PROUD DOLL

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Digned to look like a batn of Pl Newman and Robert Redford and packed to his own rdboard closet, Gay Bob was the brachild of former advertisg executive Harvey Rosenberg. Rosenberg wanted Gay Bob to normalize the g out procs, while also actg as a fun accsory for those who were already out and proud.

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In an terview to promote Gay Bob, Rosenberg once said, “Bob’s perfect for an executive’s sk, dash board ornament, the attache se, the bathtub rim, a health club gym bag.

Dpe Gay Bob havg a realistic penis, the snazzy fashn talog ntaed the doll's packagg was distctly child-iendly:. Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. Gay people are no different than straight people.