Judy Garland Helped Me Feel Seen As A Gay Man – Pop Enart

Contents:

• HOW JUDY GARLAND BEME A GAY IN — AND WHY SHE ENDUR AS ONE
• WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN
• JUDY GARLAND HELPED ME FEEL SEEN AS A GAY MAN

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

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.

WHY JUDY GARLAND IS STILL SUCH A GAY IN

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.

JUDY GARLAND HELPED ME FEEL SEEN AS A GAY MAN

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.