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Contents:
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- 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
* gay movies from 2018 *
Kena and Zika's young, tenr romance is met wh evable plitns brought on by homophobia her nservative home. Kenyan wrer-director Wanuri Kahiu and South Ain -wrer Jenna Bass adapted their Cann Un Certa Regard ntenr om Ugandan thor Moni Arac Nyeko, and the project is actually banned Kahiu's home untry for attemptg to "legimize lbianism." From the looks of the trailer, don't jt attempt this, and by the laws of homosexualy, s ban means you mt post about on social media until 's available to stream or to the U.S.Premiere: Cann 2018Release: France, Sept. Flanked by Ey Watson as Constance Wil, Osr's wife, and Edw Thomas as lerary executor and lover-nfidant Robbie Ross, out gay actor Everett wr, directs and stars a portrayal of Wil crics ll the "showse for a role Everett was born to play," but evintly not the one he was born to direct.Bosie and Wil's relatnship ultimately rulted the famo cency trial that ed latter's reer, put him prison for two years, and exiled him om society.
Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner centers the inic artist Robert Mapplethorpe (Matt Smh) her first scripted bgraphil drama, illumatg the life of one of gay art's most prized and ntroversial provotrs. A few of 2018's bt films for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr viewers are available on var subscriptn outlets like Netflix and HBO, while many are available to rent for unr $5. Love, Simon is groundbreakg as the first movie about a gay teen to be backed by a major stud, 20th Century Fox.
This documentary on the gay Brish fashn signer Alexanr McQueen, who died by suici 2010, explor the st of creativy and brilliance. I went straight om my mother's womb onto the gay para, " McQueen once said, and this film is a peek unr the hood to how hard the traffic was to navigate. He claims to have fixed Kathare Hepburn up wh 150 women, and that her supposed love affair wh Spencer Tracy was a ver for the gay tennci of both.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Wh McNally as the central terview subject, the film charts his begngs as a gay boy growg up homophobic Corp Christi, Texas, to his move to New York Cy and his creasg succs the theater world amid the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the AIDS epimic. Documentarian Hika Toda’s timate look at the hidn gay world strictly nformist Japan follows real-life uple Fumi and Kazu, an openly gay married uple who n a law firm together.
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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec. Love, Simon (2018)You may never fd a film more quietly revolutnary than Love, Simon, the first-ever Hollywood stud-released picture centered on a gay teen.
Stranger by the Lake has so much on s bra that would be entirely rctive to jt label a "gay movie. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.
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. 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. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay.
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. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”.
) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
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. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. 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!
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.