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Contents:
- THE FUTURE OF GAY BARBIE DOLLS AND THE HISTORY OF EARRG MAGIC KEN
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
- GAY BARBIE? COUPLE PH FOR “DIVERSY” DOLL SETS
- THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
- BARBIE MOVI RANKED ACRDG TO HOW GAY THEY MA ME
THE FUTURE OF GAY BARBIE DOLLS AND THE HISTORY OF EARRG MAGIC KEN
Wh Greta Gerwig's Barbie set to h theaters this July, we cid to take a look back at the past, prent, and future of gay Barbie dolls. * gay barbie set *
Ken's actually bee a gay in sce the 1990s when he was sold as "Earrg Magic Ken, " plete wh an earrg and a necklace that rembled a sex toy. When to gay Barbie dolls, the Mattel toy pany hasn’t always been a pneer, but they have always been the center of the nversatn. He’s the first (untentnally) gay-d Barbie doll created by Mattel 1993.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Warner Bros. recently released character posters and a teaser trailer for the upg Barbie movie directed by Greta Gerwig, and looks glorly, gltergly gay. The plot of the Mattel-endorsed film remas somewhat of a mystery, but one official logle suggts that Margot Robbie's Barbie will be on a qut for te happs the * gay barbie set *
And for all we know, Earrg Magic Ken stigated the unfound fear among agile mascule fathers regardg the notn that playg wh dolls uld lead to their sons beg gay. But 1993, Mattel released Earrg Magic Ken, a doll that quickly beme an accintal gay in.
Bee he f nearly every sgle early-90s gay stereotype, nversatns grew around Ken’s sexualy and he quickly beme a highly sought-after Barbie pecially among gay men—rultg the doll sellg out by Christmastime shortly after s but. AI Barbie: What might future gay Barbie dolls look like?
MEET GAY BOB, THE OUT AND PROUD ANATOMILLY CORRECT DIS-ERA DOLL
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Gay cyb Ken doll. To pay homage to the blon, plastic in, Philalphia-based choreographer and performance artist Gunnar Montana llaborated wh fellow Philly artist and photographer Joe Mac to create a project that celebrat both Mattel's inic toy brand and the leather muny -- and the rult was gay AF.
Sharg the rults on Instagram, the u of Montana and Mac's labor was none other than a life-sized art stallatn entled "Super Gay Barbie: Leather Daddy Edn, " which featured Montana channelg his ner doll, donng a harns and heels all of his Leather Daddy urse, Leather Daddy Barbie is nothg whout his accsori to play wh, so Montana is also standg a big toy box that featur other acutrements that clu a whip, hanki of assorted lors, a pup mask, a pk motorcycle, and a leather vt (amongst other nghty thgs).
GAY BARBIE? COUPLE PH FOR “DIVERSY” DOLL SETS
For last year's Barbie Day celebratn, the two released their first "Super Gay Barbie, " which featured Montana standg a toy box wh accsori that clud a douche, weights, a cell phone preload wh Grdr on , and a kimono. MattelConsirg how the Mermaid Ken doll is now pletely sold-out (he went for $110 a pop for members of the Barbie Signature club), perhaps Mattel should give the gays what they and make Montana's Leather Daddy Barbie a realy! Recently released character posters and a teaser trailer for the upg Barbie movie directed by Greta Gerwig, and looks glorly, gltergly gay.
THE LTLE-KNOWN, REAL-LIFE BACKSTORY BEHD THE BARBIE MOVIE’S VERY FUNNY GAY KEN JOKE
Evans, who is the gay brother of Capta Ameri star Chris Evans, plays a versn of Ken the film. “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.
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.
BARBIE MOVI RANKED ACRDG TO HOW GAY THEY MA ME
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.