Prceton stunt attempts to be 1st openly gay climber to reach Seven Summs

Contents:

• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• SELENA GOMEZ AS SILVIA VASQUEZ-LAVADO? THE GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOUNTAEER IS THRILLED
• MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO COMPLETE THE SEVEN SUMMS
• PRCETON STUNT ATTEMPTS TO BE 1ST OPENLY GAY CLIMBER TO REACH SEVEN SUMMS
• GAY ATHLETE CLIMBS MOUNTAS FOR A CSE
• GAY HIKE
• GAY CLIMBERS CONVERGE ON THE NEW

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

There, he enuntered an obstacle he had never met before while ascendg: is already "the most physilly rigoro" of the world's tallt mountas, attts the gay mountaeer, who relled the arduo task of draggg a sled across a glacier wh an 80-pound backpack while also avoidg the lethal risks of crevass and this climb, he enuntered a group of "wound warrrs, " ary veterans who had been jured service of their untry. "The experience of enunterg hatred is not monplace for Crane, a history-makg climber who 2013 beme the first out gay person to nquer the Seven Summs, the hight mounta on each ntent. "Even jt beg an LGBT person the outdoors, there's always an element of anxiety, " he Denali, Crane was able to overe this anxiety wh the help of another LGBTQ+ person: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, the first out gay woman to sle the Seven Summs.

"Denali was not the first time Crane has heard antigay slurs.

"Beg openly gay, when you have negative experienc, provis blueprts for beg able to overe obstacl other aspects of life, " he, who lockdown has lnched the Explorer Cold Brew Co. Hyman admted feelg some trepidatn bee of that untry’s anti-gay laws and planned to nceal his Pri flags until he reached the mounta. In 1977, Gay Bob me out of the closet.

SELENA GOMEZ AS SILVIA VASQUEZ-LAVADO? THE GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOUNTAEER IS THRILLED

Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs. Gay Bob's packagg proudly (and wordily) explaed what “g out of the closet” meant:.

MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO COMPLETE THE SEVEN SUMMS

"Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. Gay people are no different than straight people.

But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you!

PRCETON STUNT ATTEMPTS TO BE 1ST OPENLY GAY CLIMBER TO REACH SEVEN SUMMS

At face value, Gay Bob’s msage about the mers of g out seems earnt, pog the valu of urage, honty, and livg thentilly; however, the brandg and sign of the Gay Bob doll are brash.

Gay Bob’s story is ceptively plited and tertwed toy and LGBTQ+ history. The Creator - Who Ma Gay Bob?

Gay Bob was created by an advertisg executive named Harvey Rosenberg. Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development.

GAY ATHLETE CLIMBS MOUNTAS FOR A CSE

We had somethg to learn om the gay movement, jt like we did om the black civil rights movement, and the women’s movement and that is havg the urage to stand up and say, ‘I have a right to be what I am. While Rosenberg did not intify as gay, he stated that he had created the doll to liberate men om tradnal sexual rol.

Acrdg to Rosenberg, regardls of a person’s sexualy, Gay Bob uld serve as an example for havg the urage to “e out of the closet” and be your te, thentic self.

Durg a prs blz for the doll’s release, Rosenberg also dited that Gay Bob was a spoof of other “amorpho, sexls dolls, ” which was undoubtedly a reference to Mattel’s KenTM and BarbieTM.

GAY HIKE

He had plans to release addnal dolls that would have ma up the rt of Gay Bob’s fay (a mother, father, and two brothers); however, the other dolls were never produced.

GAY CLIMBERS CONVERGE ON THE NEW

Gay Bob dolls were sold via mail-orr advertisements gay magaz and a few boutique shops New York Cy and San Francis. Consequently, ten thoand more dolls were produced, and Gay Bob was btowed wh Esquire magaze's "Dub Achievement Award" 1978.