Wizard of oz gay
How did this classic film turn into associated with the LGBTQ2S+ community?
There are many reasons why the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Ozhas grown into an LGBTQ2S+ main - stay over the years. It could be the various camp elements in the clip, the continued endorsement from gay icons like RuPaul Charles, or just the inclusion of Judy Garland, who in and of herself has become a queer icon due to her performance ability, personal struggles, and camp tendencies.
Regardless of the reason, The Wizard of Ozis both a masterpiece of filmmaking and a celebrated LGBTQ2S+ fixture.
The central message of the film is ruling your heart’s true want. Dorothy Gale, played by a 17-yearold Judy Garland, yearns for a experience beyond her small Kansas town. However, after revealing a mystical world beyond her wildest imagination, she realizes that her house, family and friends are all she really needs.
The classic storytelling tool of needs vs. wants is very much at compete here. Dorothy wants adventure, but she needs her family. For many, the film represents a call for to love what you have, and find definition in the things that matter most.
This same core message of self-suff
In Clark’s essay, “The Case of American Fantasy,” she mentions the popular thought, in LGBT sub-culture, that Dorothy’s companions are potentially gay, or at least not the stereotypical heterosexual man. There is a perception that the lion is ‘born to be a sissy,’ expressing that he is an effeminate male figure. This is obvious, perhaps, from his sensitive claws, upon touching the tin man’s body.
Within the sphere of homosexual culture, there are numerous types of gay men, involve the term ‘Bears’, which are calm of a collective of muscular, many looking men, who often possess quite a lot of chest hair, but tend to be quite tender at heart. It is not far fetched to claim that, if one were to look at The Wizard of Oz under such a lens, that the cowardly lion might fit into such a category.
Certainly, the idea of the tin man and the scarecrow, both men desiring what the other apparently has no necessitate for, might be considered a nice pair. To want a mind, one might say is quite masculine; whereas to desire a heart is more effeminate. One could imagine a modern family, with the tin man and the scarecrow as the parents, with the lion as pe
Over the Rainbow: The Gay Male Obsession with The Wizard of Oz
Early on, during my first initial days within the gay customs of San Francisco, I was bemused by the proximate reverential treatment paid to the motion picture “The Wizard of Oz.” Yet, thinking back to my own oftentimes lonely and confusing childhood, I did recollect the movie as a welcoming respite from the anxiety of growing up as a pain boy addicted to porn and consequently thoroughly mess-up in terms of his own sexuality. For, the image of a place “Over the Rainbow,” where troubles did not exist and “And the dreams that you dare to dream really perform come true…” was the perfect and unimaginably beautiful ideal.
Every year, usually around Christmastime, The Castro Theater would own a special evaluating of Oz. It was a tall holy day for gay men in San Francisco. Many attendees arrived in costume; as their favorite characters: the most plentiful creature Glinda drag queens. The atmosphere around the theater was one of a religious procession; it all seemed enjoy harmless fun; but, as with all public spectacles in gay culture – beyond the revelry was always a pervasively tragic overtone. At the period, for myself, it was the second
Why is the movie "The Wizard of Oz" stereotypically linked with gay male culture?
Derleth1
(I realize that this might cease up in IMHO. We’ll cross that rainbow when we arrive to it.)
“The Wizard of Oz” is the single movie most associated with the gay male culture in this country. Movies (viz. My Fellow Americans) produce jokes based on that proof. Being a straight guy myself, this has always made me wonder. There is a stereotype that gay males like Judy Garland*, but that doesn’t generate much sense to me, either. What is the history behind these associations?
*(Uh, not in That Way, obviously.)
jimbeam2
Apparently there’s plenty of metaphors in the movie and the musical and the sequel to the book. In the sequel, the main character “Tip” IIRC transforms back and forth from being male to female and back again. The musical speaks for itself… just survey it. Then there’s the rainbow which is associated with the coalition or whatever. Of course Judy goes without saying and then the three amigos when they get to Oz construct claim to be FOD “Friends of Dorothy”. Another phrase among the gay community from what I understand. I am not gay myself but there seems