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Throw his accsori – a sparkly earrg and a necklace that had an eyebrow-raisg circular charm on the end of – and seemed evable that the doll was dubbed “Gay Ken” or “Fey Ken” a New York Tim article published 1993, wrer Carol Lawson claimed that Mattel was attemptg to “genr bend” Ken by makg him appeal to both boys and girls.

But this lotn has a unique flavor: Nearly everyone here is gay, lbian, or transgenr. Bee, at that time I hired on, they uld have fired me for beg gay.

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Karabaic [narratn]: But Rose is sred wh the recent uptick vlence agast the LGBTQ+ I live fear that somebody, well, we’ve seen [people] go to the gay bars and shoot them up, you know?

So if somebody asks, ‘When did you know you were gay? And the gay newspaper down there is the Bay Area Reporter.

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Karabaic [narratn]: But Taylor se that thgs have been Jt alg wh this backlash of agast gay people recently. It’s jt sort of weird, and prottg drag showsWe gaed so much, the past s, people unrstandg who gay people are and people beg more fortable.

And now ’s kd of turng were aware of of beg gay and beg different, but aga, that was not somethg that was really talked about among other people. And nowadays ’s somethg that you n talk about openly wh other people and not beg embarrassed about , or not have a fear of beg rejected or beg discrimated gay people that are out now have been out for a long time and they’re not gog to be gog back .

And so there’s gog to have to be some reckong wh the people who don’t want to see gay people. The Judas Prit ontman helped to map out the blueprt of the sound and look of metal throughout the 70s and 80s, and a later he beme the first openly gay metal ontman. “I thk that kd of experience is somethg that every gay guy go through – feelg isolated and feelg that you’re the only person the world who has those kd of feelgs.

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”Halford is a trailblazer that regard, and told Metal Hammer that he’s glad he helped to break assumptns about gay people workg metal. “There’s still a very bigoted attu towards homosexualy.

”Halford don’t see himself as a gay in, though – to him, he’s a heavy metal sger a band. ” He fds amg that he has no relatnship wh the gay media, he stated, opg that they n’t stggle to nnect wh the world of heavy metal.

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“I’ve never been approached by any of those kd of publitns bee I thk heavy metal is still viewed by the wir media as still beg this very macho, male environment, ” he said, “and the gay media still treats wh some tachment. "I'm the gay guy the band, " he began. In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry.

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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.

“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote. “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.

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The late rapper’s rerd label released one of his albums dubbed “Grandsos” last week, and this week there’s a viral vio of Kg Von admtg to the police officers that he was gay, and social media is gog nuts.

The vio first posted by DJ Akamiks saw Kg Von requtg that police officers put him protective ctody bee he was gay and hence uld be attacked a regular jail cell. The late 26-year-old never admted publicly that he was homosexual or gave any sign that fans would notice, hence the vio shockg fans.

However, on Tuday, footage went viral of the “Took Her to the O” rapper claimg to be gay so that he uld be moved to PC, durg a stt behd bars. "Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse.

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"You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about. " Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about. All hail gay Ken.

While "Barbie" don't ever tell where the Kens go at night (don't thk too hard about ) Weird Barbie's sanctuary is also home to wayward Kens, specifilly, the gay on. " If you didn't know, Palm Sprgs has a vibrant reputatn as a haven for gay men, so 's safe to say this Ken is, you know... GAY MEN.

Earrg Magic Ken is still the most-bought Ken history bee gay men went absolutely wild for him. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

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