Judge Judy Speaks Out In Support Of Gay Marriage
Contents:
- ‘JUDY’ FACT CHECK: IS THE GAY COUPLE JUDY GARLAND BEIENDS BASED ON A REAL COUPLE?
- 'JUDY': INSI THE MOVIE'S BETIFUL, HEARTBREAKG TRIBUTE TO GARLAND'S GAY FANS (EXCLIVE)
- WHY JUDY’S DIRECTOR ADD SCEN FEATURG HER GAY FANS
- ‘JUDY’ FACT CHECK: IS THE GAY COUPLE JUDY GARLAND BEIENDS BASED ON A REAL COUPLE?
- JUDGE JUDY SPEAKS OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON 'THE VIEW' (VIDEO)
- DISNEY QUIETLY FEATURED A MARRIED GAY UPLE ZOOTOPIA
‘JUDY’ FACT CHECK: IS THE GAY COUPLE JUDY GARLAND BEIENDS BASED ON A REAL COUPLE?
Judy Garland has an tensely fervent and fahful followg the LGBTQ muny — and the new film “Judy” mak the se that she loved her fans right small but ccial characters the film are Stan and Dan (played by Andy Nyman and Daniel Cerqueira), who wa for Judy outsi the London nightclub Talk of the Town, where she has a five-week gig. Feelg lonely, she asks them to jo her for dner — leavg them the eveng progrs, she ends up at their apartment, where Stan tearfully opens up to her about the difficulti the two gay men have had matag their relatnship the face of legal persecutn. Judy’s mic has provid them wh solace throughout their sufferg.Although Stan and Dan are fictnal characters, “Judy” director Rupert Goold says they reprent Judy’s global fanbase and specifilly her large LGBTQ followg. Goold said their cln was the “brilliant ia” of wrer Tom Read: 'Judy' Film Review: Renee Zellweger Gets to the Core of Judy Garland's Tragic Decle“Stan and Dan are absolutely a highlight of the film; they brg humor and love and magic,” producer David Livgstone said. “They help unrstand Judy’s role as an in whilst also embodyg the love she generated om her fans.”Daniel Cerqueira (Dan) and Andy Nyman (Stan)“[They] me out of discsn about how we flh out Judy’s experience London, and the need to see Judy through the ey of her dience at some level,” Goold explaed. “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. I spoke to amics who’ve vtigated ias of sexualy through the prism of Garland. For the post-Stonewall generatn, ‘Friends of Dorothy’ is a strong affirmative voice agast discrimatn.”Goold was referrg to the Stonewall Rts, an uprisg the gay muny agast a police raid that began the very early morng the day after Garland’s funeral at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.“Friends of Dorothy” was a phemism ed between LBGTQ people to discs their sexual orientatn. It dat back to World War II, when homosexual acts were illegal the U.S. Dorothy, of urse, is a reference to Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” origal story ‘Judy’ Fact Check: Is the Gay Couple Judy Garland Beiends Based on a Real Couple? At TheWrap * gay couple in judy *
Feelg lonely, she asks them to jo her for dner — leavg them the eveng progrs, she ends up at their apartment, where Stan tearfully opens up to her about the difficulti the two gay men have had matag their relatnship the face of legal 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. ”Goold was referrg to the Stonewall Rts, an uprisg the gay muny agast a police raid that began the very early morng the day after Garland’s funeral at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
It dat back to World War II, when homosexual acts were illegal the U.
'JUDY': INSI THE MOVIE'S BETIFUL, HEARTBREAKG TRIBUTE TO GARLAND'S GAY FANS (EXCLIVE)
Judy Garland has an tensely fervent and fahful followg the LGBTQ muny — and the new film “Judy” mak the se that she loved her fans right small but ccial characters the film are Stan and Dan (played by Andy Nyman and Daniel Cerqueira), who wa for Judy outsi the London nightclub Talk of the Town, where she has a five-week gig. Feelg lonely, she asks them to jo her for dner — leavg them the eveng progrs, she ends up at their apartment, where Stan tearfully opens up to her about the difficulti the two gay men have had matag their relatnship the face of legal persecutn. Judy’s mic has provid them wh solace throughout their sufferg.Although Stan and Dan are fictnal characters, “Judy” director Rupert Goold says they reprent Judy’s global fanbase and specifilly her large LGBTQ followg. Goold said their cln was the “brilliant ia” of wrer Tom Read: 'Judy' Film Review: Renee Zellweger Gets to the Core of Judy Garland's Tragic Decle“Stan and Dan are absolutely a highlight of the film; they brg humor and love and magic,” producer David Livgstone said. “They help unrstand Judy’s role as an in whilst also embodyg the love she generated om her fans.”Daniel Cerqueira (Dan) and Andy Nyman (Stan)“[They] me out of discsn about how we flh out Judy’s experience London, and the need to see Judy through the ey of her dience at some level,” Goold explaed. “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. I spoke to amics who’ve vtigated ias of sexualy through the prism of Garland. For the post-Stonewall generatn, ‘Friends of Dorothy’ is a strong affirmative voice agast discrimatn.”Goold was referrg to the Stonewall Rts, an uprisg the gay muny agast a police raid that began the very early morng the day after Garland’s funeral at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.“Friends of Dorothy” was a phemism ed between LBGTQ people to discs their sexual orientatn. It dat back to World War II, when homosexual acts were illegal the U.S. Dorothy, of urse, is a reference to Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” origal story ‘Judy’ Fact Check: Is the Gay Couple Judy Garland Beiends Based on a Real Couple? At TheWrap * gay couple in judy *
Dorothy, of urse, is a reference to Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” origal story ‘Judy’ Fact Check: Is the Gay Couple Judy Garland Beiends Based on a Real Couple?
” Garland beme a gay in, particularly later her reer The film picts a gay uple, played by Andy Nyman and Daniel Cerqueira, who are dited fans and repeat atten of Garland’s shows.
WHY JUDY’S DIRECTOR ADD SCEN FEATURG HER GAY FANS
Their votn is a movg tribute to the way which Garland was, and remas, idolized by many gay men. A 1998 mic review the LGBTQ magaze The Advote reads, “the name Judy Garland is nearly synonymo wh gayns. She is an Elvis for Homosexuals — an in who transcends mic to occupy realms of sheer mythology.
‘JUDY’ FACT CHECK: IS THE GAY COUPLE JUDY GARLAND BEIENDS BASED ON A REAL COUPLE?
” This fanbase was also regnized wily durg her lifetime, although often phrased negative terms; a 1967 TIME article referred to the “hysteria” of both Judy and her gay male fanbase, scribed as “the boys tight troers. ” There are several theori as to what ntributed to Garland’s stat as a gay in. Acrdg to Richard Dyer, thor of Heavenly Bodi: Film Stars and Society, reverence of Garland among gay men took on a new form 1950, when she broke off her ntract wh MGM and fed a rejuvenated reer off the back of the succs of 1954’s A Star Is Born and her on-stage enavors.
JUDGE JUDY SPEAKS OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON 'THE VIEW' (VIDEO)
Not only did her image “speak to different elements wh male gay subcultur, ” wr Dyer, but she me to reprent “gay men’s rilience the face of opprsn, ” stemmg om the perceptn of her as a star who had been knocked down only to triumphantly rise back up aga.
A ment om one fan, clud Heavenly Bodi, says “her dience, we, the gay people, uld intify wh her…uld relate to her the problems she had on and off stage. That night, the popular gay bar the Stonewall Inn was raid by police, as such tablishments were monly targeted durg that era; but this time, the patrons fought back. One eveng, after the show, Judy fds a gay uple of a certa age wag at the stage door, eager for an tograph and a moment of ntact wh their idol.
DISNEY QUIETLY FEATURED A MARRIED GAY UPLE ZOOTOPIA
"There's a reason "Friend of Dorothy" was long ed as d language to say a man is gay, a reference to Garland's inic turn as Dorothy Gale 1939's The Wizard of Oz.