"Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz" by Author Dee Michel
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Queer Use of Oz

8/8/2018

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The 2016 publication of Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele’s Queer: A Graphic History (London: Icon Books) shows that stories set in Oz in general and the MGM Wizard and Wicked in particular still have a special place in current queer culture. It contains 171 pages of graphic novel type images. Seven allude to the MGM Wizard, with depictions of the Emerald City, the Yellow Brick Road, the Scarecrow, Flying Monkeys, a melting witch, and shiny shoes.
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Two others are of the main characters in Wicked, Elphaba and Glinda.
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​​The MGM Oz and Wicked are mentioned on page 109.
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A well-known example of such slashy writing queer writing is Wicked (1995/2003), which imagines a whole different story going on between the scenes of The [Wonderful] Wizard of Oz (1900/12939), destabilizing the narratives and binaries involved in the original.
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As far as I can tell, there are no other recurring images related to any other stories in any medium.
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