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Contents:
- THE STORY BEHD GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OUT-AND-PROUD DOLL
- GAY BOB ANATOMILLY RRECT ACTN FIGURE
- HOW GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DOLL, CAME TO BE
- WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
THE STORY BEHD GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OUT-AND-PROUD DOLL
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“It’s another evince of the speratn the homosexual mpaign has reached s effort to put homosexual liftyle, which is a athstyle, across to the Amerin people.
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That year, the release of Gay Bob, billed as the world’s first openly gay doll, ed a mor sensatn. Enraged nsumers plaed that a toy wh a homosexual backstory would lead to other ”disgtg” dolls like “Priscilla the Prostute” and “Danny the Dope Pher. ” Esquire award Gay Bob s “Dub Achievement Award.
HOW GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DOLL, CAME TO BE
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” And anti-gay anizatns across the Uned Stat bltered. Gay Bob, who was meant to remble a cross between Robert Redford and Pl Newman, was blond, wh a flannel shirt, tight jeans, and one pierced ear.
The doll gave anti-gay anizatns plenty to fear; trsic wh was a celebratn of gay inty, evinced by Gay Bob’s programmed speech.
WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
“Gay people, ” Bob said, “are no different than straight people… if everyone me ‘out of their closets’ there wouldn’t be so many angry, trated, ightened people. In a cheeky move, the box which Gay Bob was packaged me the outle of a closet, so that when he left his box, he was lerally g out of the closet.
Gay Bob explaed: “It’s not easy to be hont about what you are — fact tak a great al of urage… But remember if Gay Bob has the urage to e out his closet, so n you. A 1978 magaze advertisement for the Gay Bob doll. The doll’s creator, Harvey Rosenberg, a former advertisg executive who veloped marketg mpaigns for var rporatns, wanted Gay Bob to “liberate” men om “tradnal sexual rol.