The promise and perils of marketg to the gay muny | Bs
Contents:
- RICK & STEVE: THE HAPPIT GAY COUPLE ALL THE WORLD
- LEGO MY GAY-GO
- LEGO’S MASSIVE FAIL AT CELEBRATG GAY PRI
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
RICK & STEVE: THE HAPPIT GAY COUPLE ALL THE WORLD
* gay lego couple *
One of the biggt onle groups for LGBTQ+ LEGO fans and their alli is undoubtedly GayFOLs.
A thrivg onle muny on Facebook, GayFOLs is currently home to over 850 members form all over the world. I asked s founr, Bce H., to tell a b about his experience and how and why GayFOLs me to be.
| 46 | Los Angel, CA, USA | Gay | He/Him.
LEGO MY GAY-GO
As a kid, I didn’t know I was gay, but om how people treated me, I knew I was different — and that different wasn’t okay.
I told them how exced I was to meet them, and how I didn’t know there were any other gay AFOLs like me around. I joked that there should be a way for to fd each other… and wouldn’t be cute if we lled each other “gayFOLs”? It was that day, while standg le, that I got on my phone and created the “GayFOLs” Facebook page thkg would be a great way to meet others like me.
LEGO’S MASSIVE FAIL AT CELEBRATG GAY PRI
It took a few years before GayFOLs found s purpose.
In June 2018, some AFOLs shared Pri MOCs on a popular Facebook page, only to be met by hostily, dismissivens and homophobic vrl.
That’s when I remembered my GayFOLs page.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
From then on, whenever homophobia raised s head on other pag, we’d wave our flag and say “We have a safe place where you n be who you are, and meet others like you! GayFOLs rhym wh AFOLs. Even though GayFOLs has the word “gay” , our membership spans the extend LGBTQ+ acronym, and our learship reflects that same diversy.
GayFOLs pretty much ns self. The stori told at our gathergs stay at our gathergs (GayFOLs safety clus safety om beg outed), but we have e to learn that everyone has a distct story about why or how they end up wh GayFOLs. That’s what GayFOLs beme.
Jern92 | 28 | Malaysia | Gay | He/Him. This didn’t work, so the end I left the group rather than try to al wh the obv homophobia. I did end up jog a different group after that, partly to take advantage of the LUGBULK program, but I kept my MOCs mostly to myself jt bee I didn’t want to have to al wh more homophob.