Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• THE SPRGTIME OF GAY POP CULTURE
• NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

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THE SPRGTIME OF GAY POP CULTURE

In the UK, this language took the form of Polari: a subcultural dialect which rporated words om var romance languag, Romani and Yiddish, and was mostly ed among gay men.

“Kylie has had a huge gay followg for what feels like several centuri, she still looks the same as she did the 1990s, and she is almost universally loved, so anythg she says, wears or do will stantly be embraced by her fans, ” he explas. “The diva is a huge part of mic culture – she’s a gay in though she might not serve the same role for lbians or bisexual people as she might do for gay men, ” she explas.

Historilly, gay culture of the 19th and 18th centuri, men worshipped opera divas, jt as people worship pop divas today.

NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

“The relatnship between gay fan bas and divas is now totally mutual and somethg that serv both the performer and the dience, ” Taylor explas.

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