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Contents:

• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• THIS GAY JOCK-TURNED-MICIAN HAS FOUND A HOME OUR RABOW-LORED BIG TENT
• CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’
• IS MIKE ROWE GAY? THE ANSWER IS SHOCKG!
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• MIKE IS GAY
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• HOW STRANGER THGS MISHANDL WILL'S GAY STORYLE SEASON 4

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

IS MIKE GAY??? Is Mike Whe Homophobic? Please no more sni remarks or attackg me - I’m a bi woman myself and do not hate gay people like many of you are suatg.

Season 1 and 2 we have homosexual managers (Armond and Valenta) who try to e their power to get what they want sexually wh their employe (Dillon and Isabella). Quent and his iends (all gay) were tryg to murr Tanya for her money. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.

THIS GAY JOCK-TURNED-MICIAN HAS FOUND A HOME OUR RABOW-LORED BIG TENT

The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.

CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: MIKE PIAZZA ANNOUNC, ‘I’M NOT GAY. I’M HETEROSEXUAL.’

But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.

” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver.

Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.

IS MIKE ROWE GAY? THE ANSWER IS SHOCKG!

Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Mason shar that bee of his nerds, he feels that he don’t f to the gay muny.

Darren echo that although he’s a hero the sports world, he, too don’t feel like he belongs the gay world.

In my early 20s, while workg as an acuntant Cleveland, I fally realized that I was gay. That was the first time I set foot a gay bar.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

But my limed unrstandg of the gay scene, I felt like I didn’t have anywhere to turn there, eher. While on tour supportg our send LP, Separatn Anxiety, I started performg as an openly gay man, tellg the stori of the songs on stage and terviews. Seeg fans sgg along at my shows, and seeg new listeners’ fac light up when they heard me liver proudly gay l, ma my heart overflow, fally, wh acceptance.

MIKE IS GAY

There are gays, lbians, transgenr folks, bisexuals and even some straight alli here. And 2002, Piazza held a news nference to clare, “I’m not gay. ” In dog so, he ma many thk he is, fact, gay.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

In the June/July 2002 issue of Details magaze, then-New York Mets manager Bobby Valente said he believed baseball was ready for an openly gay player. There is a persistent mor around town that one Mets star who spends a lot of time wh pretty mols clubs is actually gay and has started to thk about clarg his sexual orientatn.

Amidst swirlg mors that the gay player is him, the next day New York Met tcher Mike Piazza held a prs nference to clare, “I’m not gay. ” And dog so ma many thk he is fact gay. He agreed wh Valente that baseball players, ne years ago, would accept a gay teammate:.

HOW STRANGER THGS MISHANDL WILL'S GAY STORYLE SEASON 4

Yet many people, particularly gay people, took offense. Whether Piazza’s ments were supportive or not, the implitn to many was that beg lled gay was emed so bad that you had to clear up the mor. “He plays for the Mets” quickly beme shorthand for “he’s gay.

” And the Piazza-gay mors only tensified after the prs nference.

To this day, many thk Piazza is gay based exclively on that prs nference; One mastream sports Web se said 2004: “When we thk of gay athlet, the first one who to md is Mike Piazza, then there is Olympic gold medalist diver, Greg Louganis.