Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. 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.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

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.

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. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Earlier this year, the Universal-backed Bros hoped to go where no major stud edy had gone before by beg the first LGBTQ rom- starrg two out gay actors — Billy Eichner and Le Macfarlane — to top the box office charts.

(Some nservative mentators ma siar arguments after Walt Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World — which featured out gay edian, Jaboie Young-Whe, as the pany's first out gay teenager — unrperformed s openg weekend, reportedly stg Disney upwards of $100 ln. )Flash-forward a few months, and Universal's specialty label, Foc Featur, is releasg s own LGBTQ love story wh out gay actors ont and center: Spoiler Alert, produced by and starrg former Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.

"For his part, Parsons says he was specifilly drawn to Spoiler Alert bee afford him the opportuny to portray one-half of a gay uple that don't get to live out a picture-perfect "happily every after" story. Deon Lotz’s performance, tense and bristlg wh ill-fastened rage and ternalised homophobia, is entirely extraordary; for a plementary portra of hidn gay inty morn South Ai, follow up wh John Trene’s equally imprsive, tough-md The Wound.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

MichaelQueer cema existed mostly d form for the middle s of film history, but go back to the silent era, and you may be surprised by the untempered LGBT sympathi of landmark films like Ernst Lubsch’s r, stereotype-challengg cross-drsg edy I Don’t Want to Be a Man, and this piercg tale of unrequed gay love and longtime pannship by Danish master of stery Carl Theodor Dreyer. NighthawksAt a time when the Brish tn system is saddled wh bate over whether LGBT relatnships should be tght schools, Ron Peck’s unassumg but lgerg character study of a gay schoolteacher 1970s London serv reappraisal: s most extraordary scene, his stunts barrage him wh jeerg qutns about his sexualy, only to be taken off guard when he rponds wh lm, rmative ndour. Elsewhere, ’s a textured, thentic portrayal of everyday gay life the big smoke, verg sual sex and the club scene – a pre-Grdr realm that nohels isn’t entirely removed om today’s realy – wh the same ank, straightforward approach as s protagonist.

As the strangers peel away om the club for a night of walkg, talkg and – here’s where gets a ltle ls like a gay Before Sunset – panic at the sexual health clic, what emerg is a h, strikg snapshot of young gay love and sexualy the antiretroviral Sun, Ragg SkyA lot of the films on this list have been chosen for their social and polil ronance alongsi their entertament value, but I have to be hont about the re virtue of Julian Hernanz’s 140-mute epic of sire and physily: ’s really, really, really hot.

The third a trilogy of sensual gay experimental films by the Mexin tr – the other two, A Thoand Clouds of Peace and Broken Sky, are both well worth your while – is the most ravishg of the lot, tanglg the rtls earthly bodi and urg of young gay men wh eerie spirual challeng and plitns. —Emma SpecterFire Island (2022) Matt Rogers, Zane Phillips, Tomas Matos, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, and Bowen Yang Fire Courty Everett CollectnThis (very loose) adaptatn of Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, om director Andrew Ahn and wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, follows a group of gay iends who take their yearly summer trip to inic queer vatn statn Fire Island, only to fd that their days the sun may be numbered.