The next American Girl doll will be a boy

For American Girl dolls, the future is male.

On Thursday, the 31-year-old brand will begin selling its first boy doll, a drummer named Logan Everett. The 18-inch-tall figure has side-swept hair, a plaid button-up and jeans.

“Adding a boy to our lineup has been a No. 1 request for a very, very, very long time,” Julie Parks, a rep at American Girl, told the Huffington Post.

This release is part of the brand’s initiative to diversify its dolls to appeal to a wider audience. Besides Logan, the 2017 collection includes Z Yang, a Korean-American YouTube star, and Gabriela McBride, a black poet.

“For a long time, we’ve been hearing, ‘We want more,’ ” Parks said.

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