As Tt celebrat his 80th birthday, a Tim journalist asks 'Is he gay?'
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THE ENDURG (GAY?) APPEAL OF 'THE WIZARD OF OZ': MISTER OF CULTURE
Everybody lov The Wizard of Oz, but no one lov more than the gay muny.
The effively mpy story of a misf teenager pg her small-town home to fd a new fay of fellow outsts on the other si of the rabow ronated so strongly that "iend of Dorothy" has bee synonymo wh "gay. Acrdg to Today I Found Out, the 1980s, the brass was on a missn to hunt down and expel all s gay servicemen om their base the Great Lak. " Soon, the Navy was sendg vtigators to every gay bar the area to fd rmatn on Dorothy, prumably while their terviewe tried very hard not to lgh their butts off.
RELATED: What's the Gayt Oz of All? As Belgian ic book in Tt celebrat his 80th birthday, an age-old qutn has rurfaced: Is the boy reporter gay? "Billns of blue blisterg barnacl, isn't starg the face?, " wrote The Tim journalist Matthew Parris unr the headle "Of urse Tt's gay.
TT WAS GAY, TIM JOURNALIST CLAIMS
Translated to 60 languag, the rtoon books still sell upwards of 2 ln pi per Parris, a former Brish MP who is openly gay, said Tt's sexualy was obv to anyone who reads the rtoon books fay background giv a first clue. As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, " Mr Parris fact that while beg nomally a journalist, he almost never fil any stori, is also fishy - fuellg speculatn that he is a spy.
"As the remott acquatance wh [for stance] Brish pnage will nfirm, secret telligence has always attracted gay men.