Eccentric Gay Gadabouts Think Toy Doll Is Their Son

gawker.com ^ | March 17, 2011 | Maureen O'Connor

[Free ThinkerNY]

Maureen O'Connor — Eccentric Gay Gadabouts Think Toy Doll Is Their SonUntil today, I was impervious to iPad newspaper The Daily's slow dance of tabloid seduction. Oldest dog in America? Whatever. Stripper psychologist? Ho-hum. But today, everything changed. Today I read "Guys and Doll," a feature by Michelle Ruiz about an eccentric gay couple that has spent the last 20 years pretending a baby doll named Digby is their son, and I am now The Daily's biggest fan:

Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick raised their 20-year-old son Digby on a series of fantastic voyages—riding camels in the Canary Islands, mingling with monks in Myanmar and glacier-gazing in Antarctica.

"Here he is on his first cruise—to Tahiti," Kirby said proudly, lingering over Digby's baby album in the couple's New York apartment. "Eartha Kitt was on board."

Digby has a Louis Vuitton baby bag and a Cartier watch. He had a bar mitzvah. In the words of Jezebel's Sadie Stein—who has, on occasion, matched outfits with a large doll that she carried to fashion events—"That's some Lord Tod Wadley shit."

The duo decided to become a trio after their straight friends starting changing shape. Spontaneous dinner dates were dashed by sniffing toddlers and flighty babysitters. Gay people were just beginning to adopt, Kirby recalled, but the couple agreed they didn't want a human baby.

"We didn't want to have to change our lifestyle," he said. "So we came up with the idea of having an inanimate baby."

In the words of Gawker's Brian Moylan—a mustachioed gay New Yorker who does not have a baby doll for a son—"Gays are just as weird as everyone else."

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nice tagline!

[SIDENET]

You know that damn thing probably voted for Obama.

[momtothree]

That is the creepiest look a-like yet. Great photo!