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
• BARBIE’S SIMU LIU AND ISSA RAE SAY THE FILM IS ‘A CELEBRATN OF QUEERNS’ FOR GAY FANS
• SIMU LIU ALLEGEDLY ONCE COMPARED PEDOPHILIA TO BEG GAY ON REDD
• IS SIMU LIU GAY? WHAT IS THE SEXUALY OF ‘SHANG-CHI’ FAME?
• SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'
• SHANG-CHI STAR SIMU LIU SAID PEDOPHILIA IS “NO DIFFERENT OM BEG GAY”
• SHANG-CHI STAR SIMU LIU RPONDS TO OLD POSTS HE ALLEGEDLY WROTE PARG PEDOPHILIA TO BEG 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. 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. As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood.

BARBIE’S SIMU LIU AND ISSA RAE SAY THE FILM IS ‘A CELEBRATN OF QUEERNS’ FOR GAY FANS

Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of .

SIMU LIU ALLEGEDLY ONCE COMPARED PEDOPHILIA TO BEG GAY ON REDD

None of this mak a person gay, of urse. It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture.

IS SIMU LIU GAY? WHAT IS THE SEXUALY OF ‘SHANG-CHI’ FAME?

Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history.

SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'

Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls. ) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins.

After I me out as gay, I spent a lot of my younger adult life reilg when people said that they “already knew. Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like. Polilly Invisible Asians have, tail, documented recurrg trends of misogyny, hatred towards multiracial Asians, homophobia, and anti-Blackns.

SHANG-CHI STAR SIMU LIU SAID PEDOPHILIA IS “NO DIFFERENT OM BEG GAY”

Accatns of homophobia Content warng: child sexual abe (skip to next sectn) Until the most talked about issue beme his ego, the biggt transgrsn was Liu’s alleged 2015 ments on pedophilia and homophobia.

Where he went wrong was parg this group and their treatment to the experience of beg gay. In the Redd thread on the BBC story, NippedInTheBud mented, “From a blogil standpot, ’s no different than beg gay—a small mutatn the genome that f our sexual preferenc.

SHANG-CHI STAR SIMU LIU RPONDS TO OLD POSTS HE ALLEGEDLY WROTE PARG PEDOPHILIA TO BEG GAY

Even good fah, and a rather passnate nversatn about the pedophilia treatment, Liu me off as homophobic. Rae, who plays “Print Barbie”, tells GAY TIMES that Gerwig “set out to make a world where Barbie is super clive, even jt not limg who Ken is, what Ken looks like and how he walks out the world. Speakg exclively to Attu ahead of the film’s release, Simu Liu discsed why the film has such a large gay fanbase.

Asked for her thoughts on the nnectn between Barbie and the gay muny, Issa Rae referred to Barbie’s in stat. She also touched on the realy for some gay men that they would have wanted to play wh Barbi growg up but may not have been allowed.