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Contents:
- GAY UPLE ASKS MATTEL TO MAKE SAME-SEX BARBIE WEDDG SET. THEY GOT A MEETG — AND A PETN.
- CREATORS OF SAME-SEX BARBIE WEDDG SET BEE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO WED AT ARIZONA VENUE
- GAY BARBIE? COUPLE PH FOR “DIVERSY” DOLL SETS
- TOY COMPANY CONSIRS MAKG GAY WEDDG BARBIE DOLLS
GAY UPLE ASKS MATTEL TO MAKE SAME-SEX BARBIE WEDDG SET. THEY GOT A MEETG — AND A PETN.
Two Arizona grooms-to-be will meet wh Mattel to talk about the toymaker creatg a same-sex Barbie weddg set. Matt Jabi and Nick Capr created their own “Gay Weddg Set” for their 8-year-old flower girl g two Ken dolls. * gay barbie wedding *
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Matt Jabi and Nick Capr, creators of the viral “Same-Sex Barbie Weddg Set, ” are now uple, who have been together for 12 years, said “I do” on May 25 an elegant ceremony at the Sttsdale Rort at McCormick Ranch, makg history as the first gay uple to host a weddg at the renown venue. ”The weddg ceremony almost half a year after the pair ma headl December for creatg a ctom “Same-Sex Barbie Weddg Set” for their 8-year-old niece’s had asked Natalie to be a flower girl, and, as a special gift om her gay uncl — or “Guncl” — they wanted to give her a birthday prent that would also get her exced for her role the when the uple uld not fd a toy for their niece that reflected their relatnship, they created their prented the ctom-created Barbie set to Natalie on her birthday and shared a touchg post of the exced 8 year old openg the unique toy.
CREATORS OF SAME-SEX BARBIE WEDDG SET BEE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO WED AT ARIZONA VENUE
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. The men created their own “Gay Weddg Set” for their 8-year-old flower girl g two Ken dolls. “They only know that uncle Nick lov uncle Matt and uncle Matt lov uncle Nick, ” Jabi told ABC ’s “not that huge shock anymore” that gay upl marry, Jabi told the Arizona TV statn.
“As more same sex upl are havg kids, your kids are gog to have kids a class that have gay parents. In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact.
And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.
GAY BARBIE? COUPLE PH FOR “DIVERSY” DOLL SETS
“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote.
TOY COMPANY CONSIRS MAKG GAY WEDDG BARBIE DOLLS
“What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote. I hope our ctom gift spir you to make a #GayWeddg set. But a gay uple is meetg wh Mattel the hop of changg that.
This uple was unable to fd a gay weddg doll set to give as a gift, so they ma their own by buyg a weddg set and an addnal Ken doll, removg Barbie, and placg the Ken doll by the other Ken doll’s si.