‘Friends of Dorothy’: How Judy Garland beme a gay in – The Irish Tim

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• ‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN

"Friend of Dorothy" first me to e as a synonym for a gay man, although the term has sce expand to be a tchall term for anybody the LGBTQ+ muny.

It origated the first half of the 20th Century, as a d way to refer to somebody's sexualy when such thgs weren't openly discsed due to the fact that homosexualy was still crimalized the Uned Stat and Uned Kgdom. Ga exclive accs to the bt workout vios, meal plans, health advice, and more wh our premium membership 's HealthThe Dorothy qutn is Dorothy Gale om the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, as played by Judy Garland, who was immensely popular among gay men throughout her reer and is still wily nsired to be a kd of patron sat of queer all Garland's films, The Wizard of Oz is the one that n most easily be viewed as a kd of queer allegory: Dorothy is transported om a sepia-toned Kansas to a Technilor world, where she beiends three men who all agree to help her her qut—a heightened and fantastil rendn of many LGBTQ+ people's experience of g out and fdg muny and safety outsi of their blogil LGBTQ+ people also saw themselv Garland's real-life story: her high profile stggl wh addictn, mental illns, and volatile relatnships, which were all well-documented by the media, would have all felt faiar to people whose liv were siarly vilified the prs. " Havg no knowledge of the origs or ntext of the slang, the NIS agents assumed that there was actually a real woman named Dorothy who aidg and abettg gay men ncealg their then-illegal activi.

Acrdg to one letter om 2001 the Los Angel Tim, the source is Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a wty member of the Algonqu Round Table, who equently ved gay men to fashnable soiré durg the 1920s and 1930s. Daniel Harris’s The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture matas that Garland (1922–1969) served as a “lostone” for gay culture: “When Judy me onto the stage, we were the loust and most exuberant part of that dience. Judy Garland was all ours; she belonged to every gay guy and girl the theatre.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

Mickey Weems the Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay People not that Harvey Milk adopted this same exprsn to mpaign agast a proposed California iative that would have banned gays om workg public schools. Weems also pots out that “to drop a hoe on somebody” is gay folk speech for “gettg even wh an offensive person. The character of the Cowardly Ln, portrayed by Bert Lahr a manner that some crics have termed effemate or stereotypilly gay.

The populary of gay nightclubs, such as Oz New Orleans or Emerald Cy Pensala, which reference the film. Judy, a new bpic ncerng Judy Garland, was adapted om Peter Quilter’s stage play End of the Rabow, a work that wrer Robert Lelx has characterised as “a gay versn of Passn of the Christ” film, which featur a big, showy turn om Renée Zellweger, is reful to clu two fictnalised gay super-fans who have bought many tickets for Garland’s five-week bookg at the Talk of the Town nightclub London 1969, jt months before her ath om a barburate overdose, aged ’s the latt maniftatn of Judyism, the gay, quasi-relig worship of The Wizard of Oz star. “Openly gay, ” jok the great John Waters, “sounds like you’re nng to parti screamg, ‘Got any Judy Garland rerds?