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‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
New bpic Judy latt maniftatn of gay, quasi-relig worship of Wizard of Oz in * friends of dorothy lgbt *
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.
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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.