'Barbie' Movie Has a Cameo From This Inic Gay, Disntued Ken Doll

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• IN JAPAN, A J-POP STAR HAS E OUT AS GAY AND HIS FANS CHEER
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

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

“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. Japane pop star Shjiro Atae announced that he is gay on Wednday – a bold move for such a public figure Japan, a the untry still do not regnize same-sex unns. I am a gay man.

SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN

His post ntued, “It has taken me a long time to be able to say I am gay.

Rt assured, there are still plenty of cematic treats on the horizon: We’ve got an Atralian ballroom romance, a Bayard Rt bpic, Pedro Pasl playg a gay wboy, and loads of lic queer horror. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end. Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

So if you make him a gay wboy a short film directed by Pedro Almodóvar — who, by the way, was once poised to direct Brokeback Mounta — I’ll s up straight my chair and pay rapt attentn. As Variety noted last year, Jul hatch the scheme after spottg Prton a gay sna and realizg that, bee he was drag when the attack occurred, his assailant won’t regnize him.

IN JAPAN, A J-POP STAR HAS E OUT AS GAY AND HIS FANS CHEER

The melancholic bgraphil drama, directed by acclaimed Brish filmmaker Terence Davi, don’t shy away om Sassoon’s queerns as hon on the bat veteran’s gay love affairs wh Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irve), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his nversn to Catholicism. As he told GAY TIMES earlier this year, “I’ve been searchg for that remptn, and I haven’t found eher. The first gay romantic edy om a major stud, Bros marked a historic moment for queer cema wh s prcipal LGBTQ+ st – even the heterosexual rol were played by actors of the LGBTQ+ experience.

Followg Billy Eichner’s character Bobby Lieber as a podster and rad show host as he falls for a ‘masc4masc’ gay (played by Le Macfarlane), Bros is one of the most outrageoly funny edi of the year and is, thankfully, not straightwashed to appeal to cis-het dienc. From Bobby snappg a pic of his butt for a Grdr hook-up (who subsequently blocks him) to the two lead characters brgg the foot fetish dtry to the big screen, Bros is g-g-g-gay.

Watchg Léo (En Dambre) distance himself om Rémi (Gtav Waele) as a rult of the homophobia of others is an excciatg watch, and the Belgian drama’s swch om buddy film to one about teen suici is equally as vastatg. An homage to teen classics like Cel Intentns, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls, Netflix’s black edy Do Revenge immediately ptured the attentn of viewers – particularly Gay Twter – thanks to the bonkers twists, 90s-spired athetic and sapphic chemistry between leads Caa Mens and Maya Hawke.

IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

Hailed by crics and viewers as an stant queer classic, Fire Island follows two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on their annual weeklong vatn to the tular gay hotspot.

We received the gay gby drama we need and serve thanks to a Kickstarter mpaign and the visn of director/wrer and former gby ach Matt Carter. In From The Si stars Emmerdale’s Alexanr Lln as Mark, an experienced new rec on the B team at a gay gby club who has a dnken enunter wh Warren (Alexanr Kg), the star player on the A team. Forbidn romance asi, In From The Si simply picts the liv of people who play gby together and jt-so happen to be gay.

No homophobia. In one of the year’s most pellg and raw performanc, Jeremy Pope stars The Inspectn as a Black gay man who be homels after his homophobic mother (played to perfectn by Gabrielle Unn) disowns him. While the narrative feels faiar – a troubled person enters the ary, is celly targeted by a senr soldier, nsirs leavg but persever and feels more plete as a rult – The Inspectn’s emphasis on the Black LGBTQ+ experience and years of stutnalised homophobia the ary distcts self om others the same genre.