Purr-i Post: Are Gay Cats a Thg?

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE BIG GAY AL'S BIG GAY CATS SVENGER HUNT LOTN GUI
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non.

"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon.

PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?

PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.

Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. Filmed for two years Vietnam and Thailand at a st of around VND2 billn ($86, 000), Nhan’s vio featur tchy mic, slick choreography and a ic story which a gay man threatens to crash his ex-boyiend’s weddg to a woman by revealg their prev homosexual relatnship.

SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE BIG GAY AL'S BIG GAY CATS SVENGER HUNT LOTN GUI

Vietname pop mic has addrsed homosexualy off and on over the years, not jt this year. Some earlier gay and lbian songs clu "Th Tuyet Vong" (Dperate Love) by well-known songwrer Thai Thh, who me out 2006, Phuong Uyen’s "Chiec Bong" (The Shadow) and sger Thien Dang’s "Tim Lai Chh Toi" (Fdg Myself). In , a gay kg disvers that his queen has been cheatg on him wh his own lover, a bisexual Vietname two-chord fiddle artist who lov both of them.

The same theme of separatn is featured Van Mai Huong’s song "Nghe Noi Anh Sap Ket Hon", released October, about two lbians and two gay men.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

And as Tc Nhan’s song, Van Mai Huong’s mil vio, the heterosexual weddg serv as a kd of ccifix which tears homosexual lovers apart. To Huynh Tuan Anh, who has directed both movi and mil vios on LGBT them, the homosexual kiss is particularly tricky. Ined, when to the media, the reprentatn of homosexuals has been found to be prejudiced.

The Instute for Studi of Society, Enomy and Environment (iSEE) and the Amy of Journalism and Communitn Hanoi found that as many as 41 percent of 502 articl the prt and electronic media they studied showed prejudic agast homosexualy, while only 18 percent reprented objectively and posively. Media prejudic clu portrayg homosexual sex as abnormally excsive, unntrollable and vlent, homosexualy as ncentrated urban areas, among young people, among men, and among people workg the arts. For stance, an onle survey of gay men by iSEE found that only 13.

Homosexuals are also often stereotyped the media as fdg relatnships at unsafe plac associated wh an unwholome liftyle such as bars, night clubs, public parks, and the streets, havg multiple partners at the same time or nstantly changg partners, and volvg crim and social ills. As far as homosexual sex is ncerned, is not any way more abnormal than heterosexual sex and is often overemphasized relatively to other mon needs and rights such as love, marriage and, pecially, children. In Vietnam, which is que progrsive about LGBT issu by Asian standards, marriage and fay laws stop short of regnizg homosexual marriag and their attendant rights such as the right to adopt children together.