Barbiemania htg s peak summer 2023 helped one 30-year-old wrer release the childhood shame he felt when playg wh Barbie dolls as a young gay child.
Contents:
- HOT TAKE: ‘DETECTIVE PIKACHU’ IS ACTUALLY ABOUT BEG GAY
- :RABOW: GAY & BI-BOYS :TWO_MEN_HOLDG_HANDS:
- PIKACHU IS GAY
HOT TAKE: ‘DETECTIVE PIKACHU’ IS ACTUALLY ABOUT BEG GAY
* go pikachu i'm gay *
Yterday, I went through a shockg and arduo transformatn, my greatt metamorphosis to date sce g out as gay. At some pot every LGBTQ person’s life, we’re subjected to feelgs of spair and isolatn, due to beg outsted by a homophobic culture, or fay, or iends group, that prevents om makg real nnectns. I didn’t have any peers who were queer, and I didn’t even know that beg gay was an optn for me — all I knew was that I felt different and alone ways I was never able to put my fger on when I was growg up.
As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood.
:RABOW: GAY & BI-BOYS :TWO_MEN_HOLDG_HANDS:
Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . None of this mak a person gay, of urse.
It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture. Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history. Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls.
) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins. After I me out as gay, I spent a lot of my younger adult life reilg when people said that they “already knew.
PIKACHU IS GAY
Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like.