CMT Host Cody Alan: Why I Came Out as Gay – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
• IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
• HOW DID ALLEN CARR TURN RSELL TODD AND HOWARD MCGILL GAY?
• CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY

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

His look, upled wh his ial ditn to Ken, mak one thg pafully clear: Allan is Barbie Land’s rint gay. So, like any good gay, he mak a n for . It’s a feelg to which any small-town gay leavg the homophobic halls of Bumfuck, Nowhere for the sparklg liberatn of New York or L.

Once aga exhibg classic gay behavr, Allan fds refuge among the women.

IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE

“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.

IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE

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. From the moment the first character posters om Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie arrived on the scene, my fely tuned gaydar started to pg.

Did my homosexual ey ceive me or did Ken appear to have a gay iend named Allan? Unfortunately for me, there is no ncrete gay love story for Allan. Growg up gay, this otherns is a feelg I often enuntered around other boys.

HOW DID ALLEN CARR TURN RSELL TODD AND HOWARD MCGILL GAY?

In the 1960s when LGBTQ+ people often had to live closeted liv, gay men often scribed their lovers as "roommat" or "buddi. Concln: Is Allan Gay?

CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY

While we technilly don't know if Allan is gay (and perhaps Allan himself don't know yet—after all, g out is a long, difficult procs pecially if you don't have queer role mols to look up to), I strongly believe that he is. Also, a movie that is so heavily addrsg genr and romance and that clus such a massive st, mak sense that there would be a gay character the then begs the qutn, why isn't Allan explicly gay the movie?

After all many gay boys (like myself) played wh Barbi growg up and would love to see that reprentatn on the screen.

We jt don't for me, I am choosg to believe that Allan is wish fulfillment for all of the ltle gay boys of the world, who jt wanted to hang out wh Barbie her Dream Hoe, play drs up, and stay as far away om sports as humanly 's to Allan, a gay in the is now playg theaters. But Allan's marketg tagle, "All of Ken's cloth f him, " backfired when led to mors that Ken and Allan were a homosexual relatnship, acrdg to was disntued around the same time as Midge, but has ocsnally reappeared Barbie lore.