Is.ken gay

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<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Maple Leafs:
Remember last year when a magazine dropped hints that it's gay editor was dating a major leaguer? They mentioned that it was an east coast team, that it was a well-known player, but that he wasn't the best known player on his team.

But they never mentioned who it was, so I surmise we'll never (cough, Brady Anderson, cough) know for sure.<hr /></blockquote><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/spo/hs/mlb/sm/5864.gif" alt="" />

ESPN Radio has been covering the topic today. Bobby Valentine was asked in an interview in Details magazine how a gay player would be received in the clubhouse and Valentine said it wouldn't be a problem at all. According to ESPN, rumors contain been circulating that a

How Barbie's Boyfriend Ken Became an Accidental Gay Icon

"He's always read gay," said Dan Savage, internationally renowned columnist and podcaster, in an email, "but has he ever decipher gayer than he did with a gay sex toy around his neck?"

Savage originally wrote about Earring Magic Ken in the summer of 1993, when much of the pop culture planet was having a good laugh at Mattel's lack of understanding that while little kids saw what Prince, the members of Right Said Fred or Madonna's backup dancers were wearing simply as "cool," the adult world was clued in to how gay it was.

"It was hilarious that they idea the earring was going to be the headline-making aspect of Ken's fresh look," said Savage.

The doll flew off the shelves, especially since gay men, including Savage, rushed out to acquire a Ken doll. The kitsch factor drove Earring Magic Ken to change into the best-selling Ken doll at the time.

We reached out to Mattel for comment multiple times — to detect out just how well the doll sold and whether it remains the No. 1 Ken, as well as for the current regime's take on this piece of corporate history — but they did not return our requests.

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Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, has given a definite answer to fan theories about the character of Ken ahead of the upcoming Barbie movie.

Chiefly, he is not gay.

In the weeks heading up to Barbie‘s let go on Friday (21 July) fans contain been speculating that Ken might be gay. Some fans have also wondered if Barbie herself is gay!

But speaking exclusively to Attitude ahead of the film’s release Margot, who also served as a producer on the production, confirmed there would be no homosexual Kens. Or Barbies.

Asked if Barbie Ground is as inclusive as we’d yearn the real society to be Robbie said: “It is but they are all dolls. So, they don’t possess actually have sexual orientations because they don’t have any reproductive organs, we figured.”

The answer may come to the disappointment of some fans hoping to see themselves represented in the luminous , camp, and colourful world of Barbie.

“We wanted this production to feel appreciate everyone was welcome”

However, on the film’s approach to LGBTQ representation, which here includes the casting of actors fond of Scott Evans and Hari Nef, Margot did say that “we wanted everyone to feel represented in the movie.”

She revealed that advocacy was somet

Ken has always been gay

Yesterday, Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie film place the internet ablaze by releasing the first promotional still of Ken, played by Ryan Gosling. With his peroxide blonde hair, orange spray tan and washboard abs, he looks like some ageing twink that you’d spot at G-A-Y Late on a Wednesday night – and reactions haves been mixed. Lots of people said that, at 42, Gosling is simply too elderly to play Ken, while others lambasted this as ageist; writing in The Independent, Victoria Richards argued, “It’s time to undertake away with ageism and recognise that you don’t have to be below 25 to be beautiful.”

Already, the image has inspired scores of memes based on the simple premise that Ken looks, well, kind of queer . This is nothing new. The doll has a long history as a gay symbol, which stands to reason: minus a handle-bar moustache, he embodies the kind of beauty ideals that in the 70s and 80s would find you atop the sexual hierarchy of Fire Island. He is also, of course, extremely kitsch – a vibe which has always been popular among gay men.

The most striking example of Ken as an accidental gay icon is ‘Earring Magic Ken’, a doll which was released in 1993. Matt