Gay Bob and Earrg Magic Ken: a short history of gay dolls - Catawiki

Contents:

• GAY BILLY DOLL - 2021 NEW EDN TOTEM ENTERTAER BILLY DOLL
• LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL
• LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL
• WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?
• VTAGE RARE 1997 GAY TOTEM BILLY DOLL SAN FRANCIS - ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY
• "GAY BILLY" DOLL
• TOM OF FLAND GAY DOLL FIGURE 001 REBEL ~COLLECTIBLE ~
• GAY BOB AND EARRG MAGIC KEN: A SHORT HISTORY OF GAY DOLLS
• LARGE LIFE-LIKE GAY MASTURBATOR MALE SEX DOLL REALISTIC BUTT ASS SEX TOY FOR MEN
• MALE MASTURBATOR LIFE-LIKE GAY SEX DOLL REALISTIC TORSO DILDO DONG COCK SEX TOY
• 1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT
• THE STORY OF GAY BOB, THE NTROVERSIAL 1970S DOLL THAT WOULD BE JT PLA OFFENSIVE TODAY

GAY BILLY DOLL - 2021 NEW EDN TOTEM ENTERTAER BILLY DOLL

Billy was troduced 1997, he was based on drawgs created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal as “the first out and proud gay doll”, although that distctn actually belongs to Gay Bob, troduced 1977. Gay Bob, the actual first gay doll, plete wh his closet and a talog promisg many tongue--cheek-outfs that didn’t actually exist. Gay Bob was also anatomilly rrect – although his proportns were a ltle more most than for the Billy le.

Billy had a number of guis based on stereotypil gay characters, cludg Sailor Billy, Cowboy Billy, Master Billy and San Francis Billy.

Billy and Carlos donned drag 1999, wh Billy drsed a ggham checkered pantsu as “Dolly” and Carlos as “Carmen” a polka dot outf remiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, an event which lnched the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat.

LOT 11 - GAY BILLY DOLL

The “Billy Doll” created by artist John McKterick and marketed the Uned Stat by London-based Totem Internatnal was known as “the first out and proud gay doll” McKterick who origally signed Billy as limed-edn n of 1, 200 dolls created to benef an AIDS chary cid to mass market his creatn after the entire first lot sold out a matter of days. Billy was 13 ch tall and was troduced a number of versns, many based upon stereotypil gay characters of the time.

Thirteen ch tall and plastic, Gay Bob was marketed as the first openly gay doll and ma his retail but mail-orr talogs.

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.

LGBT FLASHBACK 1997 – THE BILLY DOLL: THE WORLDS FIRST ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY DOLL

Rosenberg put $10, 000 of his own money to gettg Gay Bob manufactured through his pany, Gizmo Development. 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.

WHAT ABOUT GAY BOB?

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. 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. 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! When Gay Bob was removed om the slidg se packagg, he was, effect, g out of the closet.

VTAGE RARE 1997 GAY TOTEM BILLY DOLL SAN FRANCIS - ANATOMILLY CORRECT GAY

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. “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 entered the world 1977 after the Stonewall Rt took place New York Cy 1969.

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.

"GAY BILLY" DOLL

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.

TOM OF FLAND GAY DOLL FIGURE 001 REBEL ~COLLECTIBLE ~

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.

GAY BOB AND EARRG MAGIC KEN: A SHORT HISTORY OF GAY DOLLS

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.

LARGE LIFE-LIKE GAY MASTURBATOR MALE SEX DOLL REALISTIC BUTT ASS SEX TOY FOR MEN

This lead to more gay rights protectns beg repealed and other loss to the LGBTQ+ muny across the untry. 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. 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.

MALE MASTURBATOR LIFE-LIKE GAY SEX DOLL REALISTIC TORSO DILDO DONG COCK SEX TOY

Whether or not any children were ever given Gay Bob dolls is undocumented the public rerd. Rosenberg never did end up makg any other dolls he had pched durg his Gay Bob prs blz.

1977 ORIGAL GAY BOB DOLL - RARE - ANATOMILLY RRECT

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.

THE STORY OF GAY BOB, THE NTROVERSIAL 1970S DOLL THAT WOULD BE JT PLA OFFENSIVE TODAY

Like Gay Bob, Billy also me wh a fashn talogue, but he had a iend named Tyson, and a boyiend named Carlos.

While Gay Bob was built for the adult dience, today, we see doll manufacturers bridge the LBGTQ+ muny wh tentnaly for the younger generatn.