Why Judy Garland is still such a gay in | SBS Voic

Contents:

• WHAT IS A GARLAND GAY?
• WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN
• HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN — AND WHY SHE ENDUR AS ONE
• GARLAND GAY
• GARLAND, TX GAY CY GUI – LGBTQ EVENTS AND GAYBORHOODS
• ‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
• HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

WHAT IS A GARLAND GAY?

Gay means happy. So phrasg "we brg back a garland gay" means that "we.

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Judy Garland has long been nsired one of the world's most regnised and celebrated gay ins, somethg that has been reaffirmed this year by what is about the sger and actrs, once dubbed, that mak her cultural legacy so endurg, particularly for members of the LGBTIQ+ muny? In the review, the cric noted that a "disproportnate part of her nightly claque seems to be homosexual" - addg that "[t]he boys the tight troers" would "roll their ey, tear at their hair and practilly levate om their seats" as Garland Garland ntu to leave her mark on popular culture today.

WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN

Source: Getty Imag, NBCThis particular review was published at a time when the gay rights movement was reachg boilg pot the Uned Stat - only two years before Garland's ath 1969, which (though others disagree wh this asssment) her throngs of gay fans 1967 didn't e om nowhere. They were the so-lled 'Friends of Dorothy (a gay men sometim ed to intify each other when was otherwise dangero to do so); those who had found solace and regnn Garland's portrayal of Dorothy Gale The Wizard of Oz. In, wrer Steven Frank med that Dorothy's journey om Kansas to Oz "mirrored many gay men's sir to pe the black-and-whe limatns of small town life...

"Frank boiled down Garland's stat as a gay in to "gay men’s willgns to embrace and fd value the kds of movi and characters that the rt of the public viewed as outsirs or wh disgt" - drawg a parison to the queer muny's celebratn of Joan Crawford durg her late reer, when the general public's opn of her was wang. Her mannerisms and inic performanc also ntue to be shows like Will & Grace, which, turn, has been creded wh movg the p forward on gay reprentatn the mastream media sce premierg the years, emergg tails of Garland's ght personal life have only served to further cement her ronance for members of the LGBTIQ+ muny.

HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN — AND WHY SHE ENDUR AS ONE

Then her dghter, Liza Mnelli, a gay in her own right, 's no nyg that Garland's fay tree is a fairly uy impact Garland had on her gay fans has never been up for bate. But this year, the film Judy, Garland's gay fans have fally been regnised for havg a strong impact on the sger small characters the film, the geoly named Stan and Dan, are shown wag for Garland outsi a nightclub London.

GARLAND GAY

Lonely, the star v the pair to jo her for on the night, Garland fds herself at Stan and Dan's apartment, learng all about the challeng faced by gay people London at a time where homosexualy meant persecutn.

GARLAND, TX GAY CY GUI – LGBTQ EVENTS AND GAYBORHOODS

“The gay muny weren’t allowed to lead normal liv, and there is an tertg parallel wh Garland, who’s tryg to fd a normal life for herself and her children, " he said. ”While the film's subplot may act as somethg of a history lson for younger viewers, many don't need remdg, wh Garland's stat as a gay in terwoven to our llective unrstandg and appreciatn of gay culture. And a more fluid age of sexualy and genr, are the sho still relevant as gay ins?

‘An Elvis for homosexuals’. It has been said that Judy Garland is “an Elvis for homosexuals”.

Garland was a proment Hollywood figure wh whom gay people uld easily intify. Her own personal stggl ronated more broadly wh their own durg the Cold War – a time of unparalleled persecutn of gay people the wt. The edors of the forthg book Queer Objects assert that “the ia of queer expos the stabily of the stat quo and challeng the power of heterosexualy as well as the margal stat of homosexualy”.

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

Garland’s own personal journey as an actor and sger has also spoken to generatns of gay men. In the wt, young gay men now occupy a different world om their forefathers. Judy Garland began losg her power over gay men bee we got that msage and started beg more tegrated characters than the screamg queens of yore.

HOW THE RABOW BEME THE SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

They nvey rpect for all the gay men who stggled, who were ostracised and huiated for havg the urage to keep on beg their thentic selv. Judy Garland was an entertaer of the hight orr, a eply troubled movie star, and, even durg her lifetime, a gay in.

While she was alive, Garland was a figure of tense adulatn among the gay muny; she herself was very aware that many of her most voted fans were queer. As early as 1967, mastream publitns were discsg the profn of gay men attendance at Garland's ncerts and attemptg to dissect her particular appeal. The term "Friend of Dorothy, " referencg her The Wizard of Oz character, beme popular among gay men to self-intify, and mors still persist that was Garland's 1969 funeral that sparked the epoch-fg Stonewall rts, the begng of the morn gay-rights movement.

Richard Dyer, who first wrote about Garland's stat as a gay in 1986's Heavenly Bodi: Film Stars and Society, suggts that her reer followed a trajectory of self-disvery, siar to those of many of her fans. In a way, that is the gay bgraphy growg up. " Nathaniel Frank, an expert on LGBTQ public policy and thor of Awakeng: How Gays and Lbians Brought Marriage Equaly to Ameri, ph the pot further.