Queer & gay Berl: Your gui for LGBTQ+ Berl |

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• NOLTE: 11-YEAR-OLD ‘DRAG QUEEN’ DANC FOR DOLLAR BILLS GAY BAR
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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

"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. 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.

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. LGBTQ sex lumnist Dan Savage noted that Earrg Magic Ken’s wardrobe rembled outfs seen at gay rav a few years prr (leave to Ken to be jt behd the tim).

And to many who’d seen the doll, the rg around his neck rembled a certa sex toy popular among straight and gay men alike. Even though Mattel nied that he was signed wh gay men md, he was one of the few mastream toys at the time that stck a chord wh LGBTQ nsumers. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

"I curse the name of the lord this new Barbie movie that has been released full of transexual, and transgenr, and homosexualy, " the preacher clared. So many of those “transexual, and transgenr, and homosexualy” “perpetrators” are buyg advance tickets bulk for Barbie!

NOLTE: 11-YEAR-OLD ‘DRAG QUEEN’ DANC FOR DOLLAR BILLS GAY BAR

Then there’s the key moment where our two hero waltz across a rabow bridge triumph, which is jt credibly gay.

Jt the fact that dienc are never given any specific reason for Liana and Alexa livg the woods all alone together is enough to get the imagatns of the gays workg. Most importantly, regnizg even the silly ways Barbie and The Diamond Castle n be terpreted a queer fashn jt rerc the ridiculons of plats about “gay propaganda” morn movi like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Go back even further time than the homoerotic unrton of The Diamond Castle or the “queer Marxist” readgs of other animated Barbie movi and one will see plenty of ways that the ncept of Barbie dolls has been tertwed wh the LGBTQIA+ muny. Morn-day folks n pla about all the “transexual, transgenr, and homosexualy” morn pop culture, but gays aren’t gog anywhere, eher discsns about Barbie material or society wr large. An 11-year-old boy known as “Dmond Is Amazg” danced on stage at a New York gay bar while grown men tossed dollar bills at him.

But at gay bars where your phone’s rerdg vic are disabled upon entry, 11-year-old Dmond’s parents have him dancg around on stage a tank top while grown men hoot, holler, and throw money. The band’s first album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” was one of the first untry albums wh outwardly gay them, acrdg to Billboard. The LGBTQ muny has been so proment the dance profsn that is now nsired a stereotype that all male dancers are gay.

”He was also adamant that “Rh” not be released durg LGBTQ+ Pri Month June, notg: “Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem. “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform.