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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 study quite gay because they are about very affectionate female friendships, or resentful 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 contain yet to meet an adaptation of the Musketeers story that wasn’t heavily gay and suggestive toward an OT4, so it had to make 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 production, while not necessarily romantically gay, definitely tailored to please the gays.
9. A Christmas Carol
Let me just say, I did not like this movie, but it was still rather gay, considering that Eden Starling (Barbie)’s main motivation and anchor toward the good is her ally Catherine. Their dynamic was, to me, the only saving grace this show had.
8. Rock ‘n Royals
Let's face it: "Barbie" was going to be lgbtq+. Maybe not gay enough, according to some gays. Maybe too gay, according to anti-gays.
The fact is, this is a show about Barbie, and wherever Barbie goes, some integral queerness will go, too. As a kid, I remember wanting to be Barbie's best gay companion - I imagined we'd have some pretty entertaining sleepovers in her Dreamhouse. I also imagined some pretty fun sleepovers with Ken.
So now that "Barbie" is a splashy, pink-soaked blockbuster, director Greta Gerwig serves up a feminist fantasia in which a diverse group of Barbies, including several played by LGBTQ+ actors, reclaim their world from their Ken-ruling counterparts. As a queer boy led into queer adulthood by strong women, I am on board with all that young woman power in Gerwig's "Barbie."
I also appreciate that the film, starring Margot Robbie as the leading Barbie and Ryan Gosling as the leading Ken, is full of queer subtext that has sent right-wingers into a anti-queer meltdown because, god forbid, dolls should be for everyone. Fox News reported that a Christian news site "warns" that the movie '"forgets core audience' in favor of trans agenda and gender themes."
Let them have their bigoted
Barbie is Queerer Than You Think
Barbie is an American fantasy-comedy film, directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig, that debuted in theatres in July 2023. Given the progressive receive of the Barbie movie, which features multiple LGBTQ+ actors and trans actress Hari Nef (as Doctor Barbie), keen viewers might observe LGBTQ+ and trans person themes relevant to the modern world.
The film follows the story of Barbie, who after malfunctioning in Barbieland embarks on a journey to the authentic world in the hopes of becoming a normal Barbie again.
Spoiler Alert: This article will talk about the plot of Barbie (2023).
Womanhood and Exploring Gender Persona in Barbie
The feminist message of female empowerment accompanies Margot Robbie’s “stereotypical” Barbie throughout the entire film. However, Barbie opens up a wider discussion on womanhood and manhood. An array of diverse actresses, including trans actress Hari Nef, play Barbie doll characters. While the movie does not dive into transgender identity, Barbie still manages to touch upon LGBTQ+ issues without naming them as such.
LGBTQ+ Representation and Transgender Actress
In fact, the film features several
Ken has always been gay
Yesterday, Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie film set 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 see at G-A-Y Belated on a Wednesday darkness – and reactions haves been mixed. Lots of people said that, at 42, Gosling is simply too old to act Ken, while others lambasted this as ageist; writing in The Independent, Victoria Richards argued, “It’s hour to do 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 gay. 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 trendy among gay men.
The most striking example of Ken as an accidental same-sex attracted icon is ‘Earring Magic Ken’, a doll which was released in 1993. Matt
When speaking about Greta Gerwig’sBarbiethrough a gender non-conforming perspective, a lot of the argument has been boiled down to the very rudimentary scrutinize of: is this film explicitly queer?
For some viewers, the answer will always be no. There is no romantic love story between America Ferrera’s Gloria and Margot Robbie’s Barbie (Stereotypical Barbie), the former has a husband (who we barely see), and the latter has Ryan Gosling’s Ken, who certainly acts favor her boyfriend, regardless of how disinterested she is. There’s also the reality Barbieland is completely heteronormative. There is no Barbie without a Ken and no Ken without a Barbie.
Yet in my heart of hearts, I grasp that not only is the Barbie movie queer, but its queerness is undeniable. Much love a siren ballad, I watched this fun romp of a pretty pink world, full of music and sway numbers, and felt it call out to me. From Michael Cera’s Allan to Stereotypical Barbie herself, there is plenty, and I do mean plenty, for a lgbtq+ watcher to acquire stuck in.
Let’s chop right to it. The aforementioned Allan and Kate McKinnon’s Weird Barbie. Both are considered outsiders in this matri