Twenty-two years ago, I asked my dad if he was gay. Then he was gone.

Contents:

• MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL

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While many are qutng the sexual inty of Ken the new Barbie movie, there’s one studly dis-era male doll whose sexual inty has never been Ryan Goslg brought the famed male Ken doll to life on the silver screen oppose Margot Robbie the new Barbie film which opened today, there was a very gay male doll name Gay Gay Bob doll me out of his closet 1977 much to the displeasure of the right-wg culture warrrs of the time, not jt bee Bob was out and proud but also bee he me wh a penis. The Natural History Mm of Los Angel County tailed the history of Gay Bob and his girthy plastic male dollhood a blog post. And an actual Gay Bob doll is featured the Gay is Good llectn at the Mm of the Cy of New York.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

Available through mail-orr talogs and at select stor San Francis and New York Cy, the 13-ch-long (or tall pendg upon how you measure the sorts of thgs) doll was the brachild of Harvey Rosenberg, a straight advertisg executive who vted $10, 000 his own money to kickstart the Bob wore a plaid flannel shirt, cuffed blue jeans, wboy boots, wh a gold cha around his neck and a leather man purse on one the packagg and the advertisg of the Gay Bob doll were risqué and tongue--cheek. The box looked like an actual closet so Gay Bob me out of the closet every time he me out to play. Another 10, 000 were produced, but Rosenberg was never able to produce the promised le of Bob’s male iends or any of the clothg ems that appeared the clothg talog that was clud Gay Bob’s closet while Ken’s sexual inty may or may not be doubt, there’s never been a qutn about Gay Bob’s queer pri.

And let’s jt say where Barbie’s Ken doll is lackg, Gay Bob is packg.

My dad knew he was gay at age 16, but he did what he thought he was supposed to: He married a woman and had children. Once he uld live openly as a gay man, his anger dissipated, but also unvered a well of emotns he had supprsed for years. He was a gay man a society that did not approve of his sexualy.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

He was raisg a teenage girl—hard enough on s own, but most gay men were not fathers.

I never felt the need to five my father for beg gay. I also knew that my dad mt be gay—bee, well, of urse.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

While I’d never met an out gay man, I kd of knew what they were supposed to be like om movi and TV, and Dad f the mold: He loved to ok; he cleaned obssively; he kept the Internatnal Male talog around, bee, he said, “I like the cloth. “You know, ” I said to Dad, “I asked Mom once if you were gay.

“Gay? “I’m not gay. ” she’d said our kchen—after a long nversatn she’d had wh an openly gay iend om llege, Pat, who had, apparently, been a nfidant of Dad’s.

Years later Mom told me that, acrdg to Pat, Dad had been active Lexgton and Louisville’s gay club scene. ) But to actually let me —to s on that blue blanket, look me the eye and tell me he was gay—was somethg he uldn’t do.