# Homosexual Action Figures

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 13, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511 "2008-11-13T09:10:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/21 "2008-11-13T21:54:27Z")

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[Here ya go.](http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Pee-Wee-Herman-Action-Figure_W0QQitemZ170278198266QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20081111?IMSfp=TL081111112006r1849)

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**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/22 "2008-11-13T22:21:50Z")

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There’s always [Skeletor and Beastman (links to youtube).](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ1u2_PopPk)

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**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/23 "2008-11-13T23:42:50Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> What about the Kung-Fu Grip?

GI jOE was not gay.

Big Jim was.

[http://www.geocities.com/md\_dude1/bigjimas.html](http://www.geocities.com/md_dude1/bigjimas.html)

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/24 "2008-11-14T00:03:51Z")

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I have a Jane Austen action figure (with quill pen!!!); spinster aunt was not a role many women adopted for no reason in those days.

What’s wrong with one of [these?](http://www.doctorwhoonline.co.uk/Action-Figures-c-282.html)

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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/25 "2008-11-14T00:43:23Z")

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[Sulu!](http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Classic-Action-Figure/dp/B00009J586)

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/26 "2008-11-14T01:32:49Z")

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> [@rolandgunslinger](#):
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> GI jOE was not gay.

Nobody asked and nobody told. That’s all I’m saying.

But you notice how they always made sure to point out that he was 12 inches?

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**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/27 "2008-11-14T01:46:20Z")

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Wasn’t there a gay porn star action figure a few years back? _googles_

Yes, yes there was. The “Jeff Stryker Action Figure”. With posable penis, no less.

And no way am I including a link. NSFW, indeed.

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**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/28 "2008-11-14T01:47:56Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Nobody asked and nobody told. That’s all I’m saying.
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> But you notice how they always made sure to point out that he was 12 inches?

Pulsar was 14 inches of fun.😉

[http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?pulsarindex](http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?pulsarindex)

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/29 "2008-11-14T03:07:35Z")

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There’s a [Susan Ivanova](http://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure.php?FID=4420&figure=susanivanova) action figure; the character was fairly [implicitly (if not outright explicitly) bisexual](http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/041.html).

Jadzia Dax (or any of the Daxes, really), although primarily heterosexual in whatever her current host body, could be at least incidentally homosexual. “Pansexual” would probably apply better, here…

Well, hot damn! While looking for any figures of the DS9 “Mirror Universe” Intendant Kira (an example of your typical “[depraved bisexual](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedBisexual)” trope), I stumbled across…[The gallery of gay action figures.](http://www.theangrypuppy.com/gallery-of-gay-action-figures/) (Several of whom, it should be noted, are only bisexual…so that’s like, half-gay, to be more accurate, I guess.)

The Intendant’s indeed there…as are Northstar and Patty Bouvier. Forgot about them.

Well, all in all, this tears it for me…if and when I ever create a work of ficture popular enough to have an action figure series made from it, I’ll be sure to make who happens to be gay, but who also happens to be so awesome that that you can’t _not_ make a kickass action figure out of him. Like a twenty (scale) foot biomechanical monstrosity who eats souls, has crazy chainsaw hands, and one of [those mirror “hologram” things](http://www.optigone.com/) for a head. 😃

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexual-action-figures/472511/30 "2008-11-14T04:31:21Z")

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Don’t forget the[Billy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_doll)doll!

His entry informed me of the existence of [Gay Bob](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Bob)

Re Tom O Finland  
For those who don’t know, he was an artist who loved to draw buff, hung men having sex. The Billy doll actually looked to be inspired by his work. But I know of no official Finland action figures or dolls. If they exist, they’d make great gifts for some friends (honest to G-d, my friends. not me. I \<3 teh boobies!).

Just thought of another one

Flatman of the Great Lakes Avengers is gay. In the GLX special, there was a paper doll of him. Normally, a flat doll without defined joints would not count as an action figure. However, Flatman is flat without defined joints so it’s kind of a tough call.

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