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Top 10 Gayest Barbie Movies
As promised, the Top 10 of Barbie movies, ranked by gayness. Granted, I need to preface this with the fact that the majority of Barbie movies can be read quite gay because they are about very affectionate female friendships, or bitter rivalries turned into very affectionate friendships, and most of the movies don’t even have a canon straight romance, which only adds to it.
10. The Three Musketeers
It’s not the gayest, but I have yet to meet an adaptation of the Musketeers story that wasn’t heavily gay and suggestive toward an OT4, so it had to produce this list. Also, while not overly gay in the dynamics between female characters - there are four badass women sword-fighting and kicking ass and Barbie’s outfit from the opening sequence alone is incredibly gay. So this movie, while not necessarily romantically same-sex attracted, definitely tailored to please the gays.
9. A Christmas Carol
Let me just tell, I did not like this feature, but it was still rather same-sex attracted, considering that Eden Starling (Barbie)’s main motivation and anchor toward the fine is her buddy Catherine. Their dynamic was, to me, the only saving grace this show had.
8. Rock ‘n Royals
Last summer, Greta Gerwig's Barbie reminded audiences that a doll—and the people who play with them—can be anything. The message found more meaning on its red (well, pink) carpet, where luminary Kate McKinnon wore a custom magenta suit by Daniella Kallmeyer featuring a "Gay Barbie" patch on the inside.
"It kind of went viral, and we joked that womxn loving womxn Twitter lost their minds from this gay Barbie patch," Kallmeyer, a gender non-conforming designer with a loyal following in New York City's fashion scene, reflects on the device with me nearly a year later. "Kate specifically organism an out, satisfied actor playing this unexpected, unconventional traits breaking outside of this stereotype of Barbie being a perfect woman spoke to so much of what I believe in. And I got quite emotional about it."
A year later, McKinnon's monumental suit is coming back to Barbieland in a different form. Daniella Kallmeyer partnered with Barbie Style—an editorial project that showcases Barbies in all sorts of high-fashion—to create four doll-sized versions of Kallmeyer's most recognizable pieces for Pride. After the Barbie dolls model their Kallmeyer looks on Instagram in a shrunken-down replica
My dad banned me from playing with Barbies in case I 'turned gay.' 25 years later, I'm proud to say I'm queer.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angel Cruz. It has been edited for length and clarity.
I saw the "Barbie" movie on the weekend of its release. It was marvelous. I grew up when Barbie was part of the zeitgeist.
But whenever I used to think about Barbie or dolls in general, it would stir up some negative recollections from my childhood. I reflection, "I'm not going to let the past associations I had with Barbie affect my enjoyment of this film."
Around 30 years ago, when I was 5, I would compete with the little miss who lived next door. She was one of my best friends. She'd invite me around to her house and we'd play with her Barbie dolls together. It was really fun.
Then, one morning, my parents came looking for me. They said they were worried about me because I'd been gone for so drawn-out. They saw me with my friend's Barbies. My dad was visibly upset.
"I don't want you going next door anymore," he told me when we got home. " You're not going to participate with Barbies."
I wasn't allowed to have female friends
I was confuse
A doll! A doll! William wants a doll! Don’t be a sissy said his best confidant Ed.
Those lines are from the song “William’s Doll,” based on the Charlotte Zolotow and William Pène du Bois book and sung by Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas on the 1972 “Free To Be You and Me” album.
Of all the songs from this groundbreaking record helping children better understand gender, race and other issues from what we today call a “woke perspective,” it is the only one whose lyrics I recall by heart.
There’s a reason: Love William, I was a young man who played with dolls.
“Barbie,” the new movie on the ― at times ― controversial doll has reminded me that I was a gay Barbie Young man in a heteronormative world, something I did not yet realize, even if through my fascination with dolls, others did. Cue outdated psychological nonsense if you want, but at home, I lived in a largely female environment, with three sisters and an older brother with autism spectrum disorder. My father was distant, and like many fathers at the time, not often home. Together with my mother and aunt, my close role models were female, the youthful ones playing with Barbies.
Barbie was an early agent of progress for my siblings and