1977 Origal Gay bob Doll - RARE - anatomilly rrect |

Contents:

• GAY BILLY DOLL - 2021 NEW EDN TOTEM ENTERTAER BILLY DOLL
• LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL
• 1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT
• LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL

GAY BILLY DOLL - 2021 NEW EDN TOTEM ENTERTAER BILLY DOLL

Billy, the out and proud gay doll, by Totem Internatnal. Billy was troduced 1997, he was based on drawgs created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal as “the first out and proud gay doll”, although that distctn actually belongs to Gay Bob, troduced 1977. Gay Bob, the actual first gay doll, plete wh his closet and a talog promisg many tongue--cheek-outfs that didn’t actually exist.

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Billy had a number of guis based on stereotypil gay characters, cludg Sailor Billy, Cowboy Billy, Master Billy and San Francis Billy.

LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL

Billy and Carlos donned drag 1999, wh Billy drsed a ggham checkered pantsu as “Dolly” and Carlos as “Carmen” a polka dot outf remiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, an event which lnched the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat. The limed edn Gay Gam Billy and the equally hard-to-fd BPS Carlos doll.

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1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT

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LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL

From Totem Internatnal: Billy, the origal out and proud gay doll and Carlos, Billy’s boyiend. The “Billy Doll” created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal was known as “the first out and proud gay doll” McKterick who origally signed Billy as limed-edn n of 1, 200 dolls created to benef an AIDS chary cid to mass market his creatn after the entire first lot sold out a matter of days. Billy was 13 ch tall and was troduced a number of versns, many based upon stereotypil gay characters of the time.

In 1977, Gay Bob me out of the closet. Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs.

Gay Bob's packagg proudly (and wordily) explaed what “g out of the closet” meant:. "Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. Gay people are no different than straight people.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you!

LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL

At face value, Gay Bob’s msage about the mers of g out seems earnt, pog the valu of urage, honty, and livg thentilly; however, the brandg and sign of the Gay Bob doll are brash. Gay Bob’s story is ceptively plited and tertwed toy and LGBTQ+ history. The Creator - Who Ma Gay Bob?

Gay Bob was created by an advertisg executive named Harvey Rosenberg. Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development.

We had somethg to learn om the gay movement, jt like we did om the black civil rights movement, and the women’s movement and that is havg the urage to stand up and say, ‘I have a right to be what I am. While Rosenberg did not intify as gay, he stated that he had created the doll to liberate men om tradnal sexual rol.