The ltle-known, real-life backstory behd the Barbie movie's very funny gay Ken joke - Queerty

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

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

“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.

THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE

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. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.

”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. 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.

IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

This doll jt screams gay, don’t he?

Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror.

Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end. Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi need.Rt  — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen.

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

So if you make him a gay wboy a short film directed by Pedro Almodóvar — who, by the way, was once poised to direct Brokeback Mounta — I’ll s up straight my chair and pay rapt attentn. As Variety noted last year, Jul hatch the scheme after spottg Prton a gay sna and realizg that, bee he was drag when the attack occurred, his assailant won’t regnize him. 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. “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, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.