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Contents:

• GAY WIZARD
• J.K. ROWLG THROWS DOWN “GAY WIZARD” AND “EPIC FAIL” AT HARVARD 2008
• I’M A GAY WIZARD (GAY WIZARD #1)
• GAY WIZARD 02GAY WIZARD LYRICS
• GAY WIZARD IS GAY
• A GAY WIZARD
• I'M A GAY WIZARD PAPERBACK – OCTOBER 29, 2019
• WIZARD OF OZ, THE: TIMELS FABLE (NEW MEANG, LGBTQ, GAY)
• BIG GAY WIZARD
• BIG GAY WIZARD
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

GAY WIZARD

The one person who is so unbelievably gay that they obta magil powers. Can be abbreviated as 1: We fally proved Toby was a Big Gay Wizard!

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We know that you've created worldwi trigue when you said that he is gay. But I wanted to ask you about homosexualy the Wizardg World general.

J.K. ROWLG THROWS DOWN “GAY WIZARD” AND “EPIC FAIL” AT HARVARD 2008

So I thk you uld be, um, gay, pure-blood, and totally whout any kd of cricism om the Luci Malfoys of the world. Early on she breaks the ice wh some humor about gay wizards.

Reprentatn: gay MC; transgenr MC; likely pansexual si character.

I’M A GAY WIZARD (GAY WIZARD #1)

What do you ll a gay wizard? It is, of urse, mon knowledge that Judy Garland is a gay in — beloved and worshiped by gay men of a certa age and class — but what else explas the ubiquo referenc to “Oz” drag performanc and the nam of bars and bs terg to the muny?

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It would be a mistake to nfe a discsn of The Wizard of Oz to a certa class of gay men, but seekg a pot of orig, there is a domant narrative of queer history which “Oz” and Garland were important parts of a mostly whe, middle-class, urban gay male subculture by the 1950s. The orig of the exprsn “Friend of Dorothy, ” which beme a phrase ed by gay men to intify themselv to each other, is lost to history — may have predated this era, and may not even refer to Garland’s role the movie, but the belief that do is wispread (another possibily is that refers to Dorothy Parker, who was also a iend to gays). Acrdg to “Oz” scholar Dee Michel, who is wrg a book on “Oz” and gay men, there are certa beliefs about the film and the LGBT muny that persist spe of a lack of clear historil evince.

“The beliefs, ” he said, “overlap and rerce each other and have bee part of gay folklore, creasg our sense of history and rercg gay inty.

Some disparagg remarks about gay men attendg Garland ncerts were prted reviews the late 1960s. Other prt referenc to “Oz” as an unrground culture shared by gay men seem to show up the 1970s and ’80s, lookg back and attemptg to expla the appeal of the film. The explanatns often take the form of an intifitn of gay men and others wh a girl om a small muny who is misunrstood by her fay, who is whisked away to a place where she be iends wh characters who seem like they uld be gay men (pecially the Cowardly Ln, who refers to himself as a “sissy” and “dandy ln”).

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The story beme a metaphor for the real-life dreams and experienc of gay men who left middle Ameri for the gay muni of New York Cy and San Francis, which were analogized to Oz or the Emerald Cy.

There is, of urse, also the unique place occupied by Garland among gay ins. Garland’s stggl seemed to mirror those of gay men at the time, and she was admired for risg above her problems performance, although as she noted herself, she was never able to get over the rabow her life off the stage or screen.

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Neverthels, gay folklore and film ntue to tell the story, que possibly imposg the perspective of whe, cisgenr gay male historians on an event that was largely the work of queer and trans people of lor. Ten years later, at the 1979 March on Washgton, acrdg to Michael Bronski, lbian sger Holly Near end her set wh Over the Rabow, llg the gay natnal anthem.

The Wiz, a Broadway mil produced by a black gay man and adapted as a film starrg Diana Ross, occupi an important place both black and gay culture, as evinced by the muny-watch parti and Twter rpons to the recent live broadst on NBC. After the suici aths of several young people the fall of 2010, cludg Rutgers Universy stunt Tyler Clementi, crowds gathered for a vigil New York’s Washgton Square Park, wavg rabow-lored glow sticks while openly gay Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson led them sgg Over the Rabow.

In 2017, rponse to a slew of racist cints the Gayborhood, Philalphia add black and brown strip to the tradnal six-lor LGBT rabow flag.

I'M A GAY WIZARD PAPERBACK – OCTOBER 29, 2019

Miscellaneo objects om the mm’s llectn that feature rabows, cludg “That’s So Gay!

Here are the highlights of what I learned about this lorful, often-changg orig mythQueer inography once clud pk and black triangl—re-appropriated by the LGBT muny after the Nazis ed them to label gay men and lbians ncentratn mps—and the labrys—a double-head ax associated wh the mythologil, matriarchal Amazons. ”Ruby Slipper activism on a T-shirt ma by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task ForceFriends of Dorothy One might be quick to pot out the signifince of the song “Somewhere Over the Rabow” om the 1939 queer classic The Wizard of Oz. “Friend of Dorothy” has proliferated as slang for beg a gay man.

WIZARD OF OZ, THE: TIMELS FABLE (NEW MEANG, LGBTQ, GAY)

Burton of San Francis, who joked, “I’ve heard of gay power, but this is ridiculo. The group also played a gay-straight dance anized by the Gay Stunts Unn of the Universy of California, Irve.

Ronald Kobata of the Buddhist Church of San Francis (BCSF) wh the BCSF outActivist Arnie Kantrowz’s 1977 tobgraphy Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay is much more explic s e of symbolism.

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The tle draws directly om the Garland song, parg the highs and lows of life and gay polics to Dorothy’s journey to Oz.

The thor scrib his experience at New York’s first gay pri march: “Arms lked, the legns of gays were marchg to Oz. ” Kantrowz’s work was wily reviewed a number of perdils, where fellow gay men flted him for his “trivial, obv metaphor” and “unfortunate tle.

From para floats to boutique swag, a nfluence of mercial terts and rpectabily polics have renred the go-to logo of “the gay agenda, ” along wh hashtags and slogans that have helped ame watershed moments like marriage equaly and media reprentatn palatable and punchy terms. So I met this wizard and he was a gay wizard I didn’t md and I was hangg out wh this wizard and he was teachg me how to be a wizard when I asked if he had ever cursed anyone.

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gay wizard is gay | Martial Arts Pla. When kids are exposed to gay people the media, they tend to be young, flamboyant guys. The ia that beg gay isn't limed to young people who centre their whole inty around their sexualy is que important, I thk.

You uld get the imprsn om the TV that gay people are all like Quent Crisp or Julian Clarey or Boy Gee, but actually your headmaster or chief of the wizardg uncil uld be gay and need not affect his relatnship wh the world at large. It has nothg to do wh her tryg to panr to the mass, if that was the se she would have ma clear the books that he was gay. I'm gay.

Rowlgs for what she did by outg him (nveniently enough AFTER the seri has end, of urse), but there was never anythg that stck me as, well, gay, when me to Dumbledore. The real qutn is if he was gay - why is the r at Hogwarts so awfull, I mean the great hall. On Saturday, she let an dience at Carnegie Hall on a secret: the headmaster of Hogwarts, Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, is gay.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Some say Rowlg's revelatn is a safe choice, others praise her for makg "the most telligent, honorable and rpected character of the entire seri" a gay hero.