The Wizard of Oz and Wicked Have Always Been Gay

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The 2024 Wicked film starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo has been a huge hit, especially due to the tangible romance between their characters Glinda and Elphaba. But did you know the queerness in Oz goes all the way back to L. Frank Baum's original books? Come learn with me!

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Sources
Queer Oz by Tison Pugh

“My Beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy By Alexander Doty

Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America
By Paul Nathanson

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

“There lived in the Land of Oz two queerly made men”: Queer Utopianism and Antisocial Eroticism in L. Frank Baum’s Oz Series By Tison Pugh

"Defying gravity": Queering the witches of Oz By Caitlin V. Malone

Feminism in Oz: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die Series by Shannon Murphy

"Defying Gravity": Queer Conventions in the Musical Wicked by Stacy Ellen Wolf

Dorothy and Her Friends: Symbols of Gay Male Individuation in The Wizard of Oz by Robert H. Hopcke

From book to Broadway: Elphaba's gender ambiguity and her journey into heteronormativity in Wicked by Doris Raab

Wicked Author Gregory Maguire Says Elphaba and Glinda’s Sexual Tension Was “Intentional” by Mathew Rodriguez for Them https://www.them.us/story/wicked-greg...