In 1977, the world's first gay doll was lnched. And to play wh him, you had to lerally take him out of his closet.
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- GAY DOLL
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET
GAY DOLL
Hi, I'm sort of askg this to gay, or gay-iendly members. Is "He's a doll" acceptable gay-speak nowadays?
Acrdg to the Urban Dictnary, doll as a "term of greetg for stars of silver stairwells and red eyed rpet til; approved by homosexualists everywhere" gets 5 vot of approval, 63 of disapproval. I'm not a gay male, but I'll add this se this is pertent. So, lookg thgs up The Queen's Vernacular, Bce Rodgers's 1972 lexin of gay English, I fd:.
Unfortunately mp slang or gay nt have long sce gone out of style, both thanks to the ongog mastreamg of gay culture, the growg dislike of "feme"-d behavrs gay culture, and the reactn agast 60's-70's gay culture provoked by AIDS. I thk 's acceptable 'gay-speak', Perpend.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
I would thk you'd not hear straight guys say , but I uld easily image straight femal or gay men sayg about men. My gay iends are full of such words and exprsns. I jt asked a gay iend (mid-thirti, Ain-Amerin, liv the Bronx) if he would ever say this, if he's ever heard this, if he uld see ever nng to this, and he said, "No!
I agree totally wh Kate (post #6), and I've never heard any gay male iends refer to other mal as "dolls" the sense of appearance. E., been a iend of Dorothy for que some time, and I do pull out some olr mpy saygs now and aga, and I didn't realize till now, but I hered "doll" this ntext eons ago when I hung out wh olr gays. But let's not jt turn this thread to a bt-of-gay-slang sha-slgg-ssn.
MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET
It's a wiki article on Polari (known varly as Parlare, Parlary, Palare, Palarie, Palari;om Italian parlare, "to talk"), which is (apparently, at least acrdg to wiki and Slate magaze) slang/nt vobulary ed by var out-of-mastream groups cludg circ/fairground showman and gay men. I agree that a non-gay ntext JtKate's fn of "nice" is exactly rrect.
I'm translatg now betwixt breer- and gay-speak. Comments:GAY DOLL!
“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.