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Contents:
- WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN
- WHY DID GAY MEN MARRY JUDY GARLAND?
- ‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN
* mark herron gay *
Hollywood in Liza Mnelli's personal life was jt as tertg as her profsnal life as she was married four tim and two of her hbands were allegedly gay. Her first hband was Peter Allen, and acrdg to the book "David Bowie Ma Me Gay, " Mnelli found him bed wh a man on their weddg night. Bullock's book, "David Bowie Ma Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Mic, " Bullock wrote that Mnelli found her new hband bed wh her mother, Judy Garland's fourth hband, Mark Herron, on their weddg night.
Mnelli explaed that the experience ma her re-thk surprisg people at home, as she was quoted sayg:"[I] married Peter and he didn't tell me he was gay. Durg their relatnship, mors that Gt was gay circulated, but Mnelli and Gt nied . 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?
WHY DID GAY MEN MARRY JUDY GARLAND?
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. 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.
‘FRIENDS OF DOROTHY’: HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN
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. 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. “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. That her father was gay and she adored him probably had somethg to do wh Anonymoreply 1March 10, 2014 3:40 PM.