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THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
About a year later, “Love, Simon” ma history as Hollywood’s first major stud film to feature a gay teen protagonist and spawned a wonrful spoff show, “Love, Victor. His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. 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.
But there’s one gag particular we at Queerty had to know more about, one that’s super gay and—as turns out—a real part of Barbie history…. Among the group are two Kens om bygone eras, and the movie stops jt short of outright llg them “gay Kens, ” but e on—look at them!
They are so gay. This doll jt screams gay, don’t he? Inrporatg news footage and topil referenc (seen prevly films as tre as FORREST GUMP, or as brilliant as WEST BEIRUT) marks the passage of time, and offers the maturatn of gay polics and philosophy as an ever-prent backdrop, and the very short - and touchg - fal scene, both symbolic and leral fashn, mak clear the aim of a film like this: to enterta, but also munite the lsons and tths of a culture across generatns.