REPOSTED FOR YOUR SELF-QUARANTINING NEEDS: The mp classics that fed generatns of gay men seem to have been all but fotten lately. After the jump, I've listed the 50 most ptivatg, spirg, and important movi that you absolutely NEED to see before you die. It's Homo 101 on the WOW Report. (You don't need to
Contents:
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
- IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay essential movies *
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.
THE GAY ESSENTIALS: THE 50 MOVI EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO WATCH WHILE STUCK AT HOME
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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. 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. 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.
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 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 obssg!
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and the other streamg servic have a great selectn of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr classics to watch this June. * gay essential movies *
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Is Barbie gay the new movie and why is rated PG-13? The 2023 film starrg Margot Robbie has already generated a lot of discsn. * gay essential movies *
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BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
50) The Boys the Band: I haven’t clud many gay films here – you know, movi about actual homosexuals – bee ually they’re eher too dreary or too earnt and lack that certa “quotable qualy” that mak somethg mp. One you've surely heard of (Fire Island, which I'll get to later) — and the other was Benedictn, a film that barely seemed to register spe beg helmed by one of our great queer filmmakers, Terence (who directed Rachel Weisz and Cynthia Nixon to arguably their greatt performanc The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passn, rpectively) utiliz a bpic of Brish poet and rated WWI bat veteran Siegied Sassoon (played by Jack Lown his youth and Peter Capaldi olr age) to offer a wdow to the dramatic liv of aristocratic gay men the 1920s.