Gay men have a “bch” problem

Contents:

• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• GAY MEN HAVE A “BCH” PROBLEM
• 10 SIGNS THAT YOU ARE A BASIC GAY BCH
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• CTODIAN SU OVER ‘BCHY GAY GUY’ TEXT

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

Ask a Homo: Bchy Queens. Wele back to Ask a Homo, a judgment-ee zone where the gays of Outward answer qutns about LGBTQ polics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer nundms.

This week, we addrs a classic straight-on-gay misnceptn: Gay men are jt so bchy! While ’s te that some queens are straight-up rancid, there’s also a venerable tradn of artful sultg that’s been an important part of gay socialy for s.

Send your queri—for publitn—to, and please put “ASK A HOMO” the subject le. Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels. It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom.

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

27 Gay Mem Sure To Make Anyone Lgh.

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GAY MEN HAVE A “BCH” PROBLEM

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.

10 SIGNS THAT YOU ARE A BASIC GAY BCH

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.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

” 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.

CTODIAN SU OVER ‘BCHY GAY GUY’ TEXT

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!

My problem is wh gay guys. I’ve had this bate wh many of my gay iends when I ll out their e of the word. The bottom le is that when a gay male lls another person a bch, we are ntributg to our own stggle.

Femists share the same ncerns as gay mal for equaly of opportuny, employment, fair hog, medil servic, adoptn, and so on.