WATCH: Meet the life-size ‘Super Gay Barbie’ – My Lbian World

Contents:

• PERFORMANCE ARTIST SERV UP ‘SUPER GAY BARBIE’ TRIBUTE
• GAY PARISIENNE BARBIE DOLL COLLECTOR'S REQUT COLLECTN 1959 DOLL REPRODUCTN
• THE TE STORY OF MATTEL ACCINTALLY RELEASG A SUPER GAY KEN DOLL
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• THE FUTURE OF GAY BARBIE DOLLS AND THE HISTORY OF EARRG MAGIC KEN
• HOW BARBIE'S BOYIEND KEN BEME AN ACCINTAL GAY IN

PERFORMANCE ARTIST SERV UP ‘SUPER GAY BARBIE’ TRIBUTE

To pay homage to the blon, plastic in, Philalphia-based choreographer and performance artist Gunnar Montana llaborated wh fellow Philly artist and photographer Joe Mac to create a project that celebrat both Mattel's inic toy brand and the leather muny -- and the rult was gay AF.

GAY PARISIENNE BARBIE DOLL COLLECTOR'S REQUT COLLECTN 1959 DOLL REPRODUCTN

Sharg the rults on Instagram, the u of Montana and Mac's labor was none other than a life-sized art stallatn entled "Super Gay Barbie: Leather Daddy Edn, " which featured Montana channelg his ner doll, donng a harns and heels all of his Leather Daddy urse, Leather Daddy Barbie is nothg whout his accsori to play wh, so Montana is also standg a big toy box that featur other acutrements that clu a whip, hanki of assorted lors, a pup mask, a pk motorcycle, and a leather vt (amongst other nghty thgs). For last year's Barbie Day celebratn, the two released their first "Super Gay Barbie, " which featured Montana standg a toy box wh accsori that clud a douche, weights, a cell phone preload wh Grdr on , and a kimono. MattelConsirg how the Mermaid Ken doll is now pletely sold-out (he went for $110 a pop for members of the Barbie Signature club), perhaps Mattel should give the gays what they and make Montana's Leather Daddy Barbie a realy!

The dolls are for the girls, the gays, and everyone else!

THE TE STORY OF MATTEL ACCINTALLY RELEASG A SUPER GAY KEN DOLL

Ken's actually bee a gay in sce the 1990s when he was sold as "Earrg Magic Ken, " plete wh an earrg and a necklace that rembled a sex toy. So they had no ia that say, Madonna’s ol back up dancers, were actually gay that’s how we end up wh Earrg Magic Ken, a pann to Earrg Magic Barbie clad a purple mh shirt, a purple leather vt, wearg a big, shy, silver rg around his neck. While he fs to some gay stereotyp, (pecially om the early '90s), ’s the necklace that really got everyone’s gay thor and journalist Dan Savage explas a lumn about the doll om 1993, the late '80s and early '90s, bis beg a sex toy, a ck rg was the queer fashn statement of the time.

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The accsory was a staple of the gay club culture that was blowg up at the time, a scene Ken would f right to wh his leather/mh ensemble. Mattel stnchly ni the doll was tend to have anythg to do wh homosexualy at all. Some even claim the bt sellg Barbie mol ever, but as Mattel is unwillg to discs our iend Ken’s current stat, that tle go to Total Hair Barbie (released the year before), he will always have his ltle place history as the time Barbie supported her boyiend explorg his homosexual tennci.

WATCH: Meet the life-size ‘Super Gay Barbie’. A gay choreographer and pater has picked up acclaim for his latt artistic offerg: turng himself to a ‘Super Gay Barbie. The two men put together a seven-foot-tall box and then assembled some ‘super gay’ accsori to go si the box: a dildo, fan, thong sglet, cell phone wh Grdr stalled, some glass, douche bulb, some weights, some blg, and the pièce résistance… a plane ticket to Puerto Vallarta!

When we say ‘flair, ’ we mean ‘g-g-g-gay flair. Workg wh his llaborator Col Burke, Montana turned himself to the very picture of what n only be scribed as ‘Super Gay Barbie. The creativ then assembled a llectn of all the accsori a ‘Super Gay Barbie’ would need cludg dumbbells, backpack, dildo, cell phone (plete wh Grdr), wig, sunglass, fan, blg, jungle jumper, and more.

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And what ‘Super Gay’ would be plete whout some subtle sha? The woofy Philalphia-based artist then posed si the box clad a ‘Super Gay’ thong and pk high heels.

Sixth the Collector's Requt® Collectn, this Barbie® doll is a vyl reproductn wearg a re-creatn of the origal 1959 fashn Gay Parisienne®. ” — only a whole lot Cyle Suz for In The KnowThe doll was lled Earrg Magic Ken, which is the absolute bt name for an accintally gay doll. Te to his name, his ear is pierced on the left si, which was largely nsired to be “the gay ear” to pierce at the time and a vert way of ditg queerns.

THE FUTURE OF GAY BARBIE DOLLS AND THE HISTORY OF EARRG MAGIC KEN

And that’s not all to mentn, his necklace was almost cidly moled after a sexual accsory trend of leathers and club-kids the doll’s 1993 release, activist and wrer Dan Savage, who at the time was workg for queer-foced newspaper The Stranger, wrote a piece about the doll’s cidly “gay” look.

HOW BARBIE'S BOYIEND KEN BEME AN ACCINTAL GAY IN

“New Ken, ” as he was termed, was officially “Gay Ken.

Even before Earrg Magic Ken, gay jok surround fashn-lovg Ken for his sat sus and affiliatn wh the hyper-feme world of unlike the jok about Ken’s sexualy, Earrg Magic Ken was the first time queer people weren’t the butt of the “gay Ken” joke. In fact, that year, 44 percent of the natn believed “gay relatnships” — not marriage, simply datg someone of the oppose genr — should be 1993, Mattel (or any other brand, for that matter) would have never knowgly released a product for queer people bee would alienate the brand’s re nsumer: nservative married moms middle Ameri who are buyg Barbie for their Katie Dupere for In The KnowEarrg Magic Ken likely stck such a chord wh gay men and queer people bee was reprentatn when no one wanted to reprent .

The toy giant now sells Creatable World dolls which allow for genr exploratn and Ken dolls that, let’s face , are gayer than Earrg Magic Ken ever was.