Friends of Dorothy
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:01 am
I had a now deceased friend who wrote book on the wizard of oz, built a fantasy world based around it in second life (Elizabeth Speiler, think a few videos are floating around on the net, all that remains), and so was a bit surprised when I saw this just now:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOn9grCVO7c
I thought I knew the book. Saw the display in the Library of Congress even. Apparently, it was heavily used by the gay community decades ago to signal to one another that they were gay, cause gaydar apparently didn't exist yet, still being a fresh WW2 technology.
All three characters, Strawman, Scarecrow, and Lion are described in the video as gay. The professor being behind the curtain I'm guessing is the source for coming out of the closest, seems obvious.
How deep did these connections go? Is there a whole gay story to the tornado, and landing on the wicked witch? What about all those midgets? Bunch of gay midgets? The lollipop gang probably was gay, but not all of the midgets were in it. Seriously, lots and lots of midgets.
And the ending, when Dorothy clicks her heels to go home, and just be normal again, did they ever try to explain this as a desire just to be seen as not gay, pretending the homosexuality was just all a dream?
Did the army of the flying monkeys substitute for straight people?
Edit:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_YFwrmrkI
That's a guide to her old Wizard of Oz world, she got her text accepted as a textbook in several universities apparently. It was via her I got introduced to the first Advaitian Non-Duality groups on Second Life as well, why I tend to know so much about it, and know the top leaders of that philosophy/religion in the English speaking West (many big names hosted meetings) though it was very, very small when it first started, then grew big. I never bought into it, preferring Duality, but get very annoyed when people get confused and talk about the lesser backwards versions like Cartesian Dualism or Leibniz' Monism. Incredibly weak and short sighted version over the Indian Advaita Dvaitian split, which is more philosophically correct and pure, closer in many ways to the old Greek approach than the modern Frankensteins people talk about on philosophy forums. Pet peeve of mine, but it gained it from that period, through the friends of Elizabeth. She was obsessed with the philosophy behind Oz. I never could get that into it, but this Friends of Dorothy angle has me intrigued, know she would like it as a debate subject.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOn9grCVO7c
I thought I knew the book. Saw the display in the Library of Congress even. Apparently, it was heavily used by the gay community decades ago to signal to one another that they were gay, cause gaydar apparently didn't exist yet, still being a fresh WW2 technology.
All three characters, Strawman, Scarecrow, and Lion are described in the video as gay. The professor being behind the curtain I'm guessing is the source for coming out of the closest, seems obvious.
How deep did these connections go? Is there a whole gay story to the tornado, and landing on the wicked witch? What about all those midgets? Bunch of gay midgets? The lollipop gang probably was gay, but not all of the midgets were in it. Seriously, lots and lots of midgets.
And the ending, when Dorothy clicks her heels to go home, and just be normal again, did they ever try to explain this as a desire just to be seen as not gay, pretending the homosexuality was just all a dream?
Did the army of the flying monkeys substitute for straight people?
Edit:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_YFwrmrkI
That's a guide to her old Wizard of Oz world, she got her text accepted as a textbook in several universities apparently. It was via her I got introduced to the first Advaitian Non-Duality groups on Second Life as well, why I tend to know so much about it, and know the top leaders of that philosophy/religion in the English speaking West (many big names hosted meetings) though it was very, very small when it first started, then grew big. I never bought into it, preferring Duality, but get very annoyed when people get confused and talk about the lesser backwards versions like Cartesian Dualism or Leibniz' Monism. Incredibly weak and short sighted version over the Indian Advaita Dvaitian split, which is more philosophically correct and pure, closer in many ways to the old Greek approach than the modern Frankensteins people talk about on philosophy forums. Pet peeve of mine, but it gained it from that period, through the friends of Elizabeth. She was obsessed with the philosophy behind Oz. I never could get that into it, but this Friends of Dorothy angle has me intrigued, know she would like it as a debate subject.