What do GAY BOB stand for?

Contents:

• GAY BOB
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• THE STORY BEHD GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OUT-AND-PROUD DOLL
• GAY BOB
• BIG GAY BOB
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY BOBGAY BOB
• GAY-KA-BOB
• WHAT IS "GAY BOB"
• GAY BOB ED MEANG
• GAY BOB ENGLISH DICTNARY
• GAY BOB PRONUNCIATNGAY BOB
• GAYBOB
• BOB THE BUILR IS GAY
• GAY -KA-BOB ED MEANG
• WHAT DO GAY BOB STAND FOR? 

GAY BOB

gay bob (parative more gay bob, superlative most gay bob). (rogatory, lloquial) Divergent om the group, by parison wh a homosexual.

If you're too gay bob and want to go play wh your dolls stead, I gus you don't have to play football wh .

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

(pejorative for divergent, by parison wh homosexual): gay, namby-pamby. gay bob (plural gay bobs). (rogatory, lloquial) One who is actg a manner divergent om the group, by parison wh a homosexual.

THE STORY BEHD GAY BOB, THE WORLD’S FIRST OUT-AND-PROUD DOLL

The others lled me a gay bob when I wouldn't dch class wh them. (pejorative for a divergent dividual, by parison wh a homosexual): queer.

Simmons, “Re: Starship Troopers”, (Use):I had no ia so many gay BOBs read this newsgroup!

GAY BOB

Tim Robson: [Only] if they are gay Bobs. Amerin‎[1] (Use):You n have some of that big ass and those big tti, unls you are too much of a gay bob to partake.

BIG GAY BOB

] I don't like havg a gay bob for a brother. 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. But remember, if Gay Bob has the urage to e out of his closet, so n you!

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY BOBGAY BOB

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.

GAY-KA-BOB

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.

Acrdg to Rosenberg, regardls of a person’s sexualy, Gay Bob uld serve as an example for havg the urage to “e out of the closet” and be your te, thentic self. Durg a prs blz for the doll’s release, Rosenberg also dited that Gay Bob was a spoof of other “amorpho, sexls dolls, ” which was undoubtedly a reference to Mattel’s KenTM and BarbieTM.

WHAT IS "GAY BOB"

He had plans to release addnal dolls that would have ma up the rt of Gay Bob’s fay (a mother, father, and two brothers); however, the other dolls were never produced. Gay Bob dolls were sold via mail-orr advertisements gay magaz and a few boutique shops New York Cy and San Francis.

Consequently, ten thoand more dolls were produced, and Gay Bob was btowed wh Esquire magaze's "Dub Achievement Award" 1978. Standg roughly 13 ch tall, Gay Bob was KenTM doll-que. A handsome and mascule doll, Gay Bob had a short feathery blon crew cut and was signed to look like a cross between Pl Newman and Robert Redford.

He had a preprogrammed voice rerdg that played the earnt msage, “Gay people are no different than straight people… if everyone me ‘out of their closets, ’ there wouldn’t be so many angry, trated, ightened people. ” This reerated msagg om his fashn talog that fed “g out of the closet” as what uld be scribed as Gay Bob’s manifto—be urageo by g out of your closet and livg hontly, like Gay Bob! Perhaps most notably the sign of Gay Bob is that he has anatomilly rrect genals.

GAY BOB ED MEANG

Gay Bob’s box was signed to look like a closet. When Gay Bob was removed om the slidg se packagg, he was, effect, g out of the closet. Gay Bob was, acrdg to Rosenberg himself, a “cheaply” ma doll, packaged cleverly.

It's safe to say that Gay Bob's sign was over the top-- 's mp.

GAY BOB ENGLISH DICTNARY

But Gay Bob was more than jt clever packagg; he also promoted the ia that g out of the closet, beg open and hont wh the people your life, was a powerful and urageo act. How was Gay Bob received?

“It’s a real giggle and kd of fun, ” said Bce Voeller, executive director of the Natnal Gay Task Force said at the time, “I thk we should al wh lightly and enjoy .

Gay Bob me out of his closet, but the world he stepped to was ntent. Gay Bob entered the world 1977 after the Stonewall Rt took place New York Cy 1969.

GAY BOB PRONUNCIATNGAY BOB

Many nsir Stonewall, a New York Cy uprisg to prottg police harassment at the Stonewall Inn, as the start of the Gay Rights movement the Uned Stat. Los Angel has a long history of Gay Rights Protts and anti-gay ordanc, such as the Anti-Masqueradg Ordance of 1898.

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The rtrictive anti-gay Hays Co, which forba and then limed the way LGBTQ+ characters uld be seen on film, was disband the early 1960s.

Gay Rights and Gay Inty had entered more mon areas the cultural nversatn, but LGBTQ+ people were still discrimated agast, stigmatized, and legislated agast on large and small sl. In 1977, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California, and 1978 was assassated.

BOB THE BUILR IS GAY

At the same time Gay Bob h the mail-orr adult-centric talogs (and a uple of biastal boutique shelv) sger and anti-gay rights activist Ana Bryant found Save Our Children, Inc, which opposed the gay rights movement. When Da County, Florida, passed a gay-rights ordance protectg gay civil rights passed early 1977, Save Our Children rpond wh a mpaign to repeal the ordance. Bryant’s fear-mongerg rhetoric gaed tractn, and June 1977, the Da County gay rights ordance was repealed and would rema until the 1990s.

This lead to more gay rights protectns beg repealed and other loss to the LGBTQ+ muny across the untry. So, where do the Gay Bob doll f to all this? Bryant’s anti-gay csa gaed wispread media attentn and sparked mpaigns other stat.

Rowe lled the Gay Bob dolls, “evince of the speratn of the homosexual mpaign has reached s effort to put the homosexual liftyle, which is a athstyle, across to the Amerin people.

GAY -KA-BOB ED MEANG

I n only hope that the children who are given the Gay Bob dolls will not prehend the meang and tent of the mpaign that is behd their manufacture and distributn. In fact, there was no homosexual agenda mpaign behd the Gay Bob doll. Distributn through gay-oriented stor and publitns foced on adult llectors.

Whether or not any children were ever given Gay Bob dolls is undocumented the public rerd. Beyond (the Valley of the) Other Gay Dolls… The Legacy of Gay Bob.

Rosenberg never did end up makg any other dolls he had pched durg his Gay Bob prs blz. Gay Bob remaed the only openly gay doll for many years.

WHAT DO GAY BOB STAND FOR? 

That changed 1997 wh Totem Internatnal’s troductn of the Billy doll who claimed to be the first “Out and Proud Gay Doll”—although that distctn clearly belongs to Gay Bob. Like Gay Bob, Billy also me wh a fashn talogue, but he had a iend named Tyson, and a boyiend named Carlos.

Meanwhile, Gay Bob’s only boyiend the Gay Bob le was… another Gay Bob. While Gay Bob was built for the adult dience, today, we see doll manufacturers bridge the LBGTQ+ muny wh tentnaly for the younger generatn.

While fans celebrated the cln of Mamie and Lyte as reprentatn and clivy, also led to homophobic backlash straight out of Ana Bryant’s book several s after Save the Children began.