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‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
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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.
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.
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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?
She had many gay iends – cludg Roger Ens, Charl Walters and Gee Cor – a gay father and two gay (or bisexual) hbands Vcente Mnelli and Mark Herron.
She urged her dghter Liza Mnelli to marry Peter Allen – also gay – who had an affair wh her hband Mark Herron. “When I die I have visns of fags sgg ‘Over the Rabow’ and the flag at Fire Island beg flown at half mast, ” she told Liza, a reference to a preferred, upstate NY gay rort. She went further the film I Could Go On Sgg (1963), wh a wk to gay viewers the dience: “I’ve already dnk enough ffee to float Fire Island, ” she ’s “gay in stat” even has s own mythology.