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THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
And you get the imprsn that men om the Gulf area mt all be gay (lghs)” are the people who are phg the boundari? Although German sexologist Magn Hirschfeld popularised the word ‘transvte’ and -wrote the first explicly gay film, Different om the Others (1919), before supervisg the first sex reassignment operatns, there is ltle which might be lled transgenr cema before the 1960s, disregardg cross-drsg farc such as I Was a Male War Bri (1949) or Billy Wilr’s Some Like It Hot (1959). The participants speak ndidly about facg racism, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and the AIDS crisis, beg thrown out of their hom, shopliftg or beg sex workers as they stggle to survive “a rich, whe world”.
But there’s one gag particular we at Queerty had to know more about, one that’s super gay and—as turns out—a real part of Barbie history…. Among the group are two Kens om bygone eras, and the movie stops jt short of outright llg them “gay Kens, ” but e on—look at them!