Barbie’s gay Ken Easter egg, explaed - Polygon

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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

Hi, I'm sort of askg this to gay, or gay-iendly members.

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

Is "He's a doll" acceptable gay-speak nowadays?

MEET GAY BOB, THE 1977 DOLL THAT URGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

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.

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

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