'Barbie' Movie Has a Cameo From This Iconic Gay, Discontinued Ken Doll


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The doll was called Earring Magic Ken, which is the absolute best name for an accidentally gay doll. And he is every '90s queer stereotype in a chiseled hunk of plastic. Earring Magic.


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Happy Pride Month! As many of you guessed, I wanted to celebrate by taking a deep dive into the now legendary story of gay doll icon, Earring Magic Ken.This.


When Mattel Said ‘No Homo’ How Earring Magic Ken Became an Accidental Queer Icon

Earring Magic Ken, released in 1993, was reportedly modeled after rave culture of the early '90s, aka queer culture, and it showed. The doll came with a lavender mesh shirt,.


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Barbie 's Weirdo Dolls: All About Midge, Earring Magic Ken, and More Greta Gerwig's movie includes winky cameos from some of Mattel's most infamous discontinued products—and at least one.


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Earring Magic Ken, also known as " Gay Ken " and " Fey Ken ", is a model of the Ken doll introduced by Mattel in 1993 as a companion to its Earring Magic Barbie figure, one of five dolls in the Earring Magic Barbie line. The doll is notable for inspiring a toy craze among gay men (including some claims that it was the highest selling Ken doll.


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Earring Magic Ken Yvonne Hemsey / Getty Images Mattel debuted this doll in 1993, after surveying a focus group of five-year-old girls who expressed that they wanted Ken to have a "cooler" look.


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Earring Magic Ken was on store shelves for six months, about the standard lifespan of a limited-run Barbie doll. Some have claimed he became Mattel's best-selling doll, but his short shelf.


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Ken is a piece of delicious, but wholly unnecessary arm candy for Barbie, a woman who can do it all on her own. For the last sixty-four years, she has been doing just that: holding down more than.


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Earring Magic Ken was, of course, created as an accessory to Earring Magic Barbie. It was the year 1993, and this new Ken tried to make things feel modern. He wore a lavender mesh shirt, a purple.


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Earring Magic Ken was inspired by a survey of young girls who said they wanted a "cooler" and more fashionable Ken doll. Seemingly without much hesitation, Mattel took that feedback and.


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Magic Earring Ken (Warner Bros./Mattel) Tom Stourton makes a surprise cameo in Barbie as Magic Earring Ken. Magic Earring Ken is the official name Mattel gave the discontinued toy, but he has.


'Barbie' Movie Has a Cameo From This Iconic Gay, Discontinued Ken Doll

Earring Magic Ken, also known as " Gay Ken " and " Fey Ken ", [1] is a model of the Ken doll introduced by Mattel in 1993 as a companion to its Earring Magic Barbie figure, one of five dolls in the Earring Magic Barbie line. [2] [3]


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Who Was Earring Magic Ken? The minds at Mattel went on to produce this version of Ken and in 1993, Earring Magic Ken was born. He wore a lavender mesh shirt, a matching purple leather vest, hip-hugging black jeans, and even had a new earring at a time when men having pierced ears in the United States was still somewhat risqué.


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Billed as "The World's First Out and Proud Gay Doll," Billy was a novelty doll produced for adults between 1997 and 2004. He wasn't the first doll to be marketed as gay—that honor belongs to 1977's short-lived , who came boxed in a cardboard closet.


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The Earring Magic Ken-fuffle may have forced Mattel into a hetero corner, but it also proved to the company that its dolls' personal lives could win it free press. As the company moved into an.