Is the tin man gay
This is a picture from the scene in the film The Wizard of Oz after Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man find the Cowardly lion and accept him into part of their group to find the Wizard. This was a painting from my exhibition "Kings & Queens," and was part of a larger, non-linear narrative invoking the Last Judgment. In the show, I was trying to depict positive models of Kings and Queens in a period when so many people are abusing their influence in negative, monarchal, ways. The Wizard of Oz is one of the most viewed and beloved films of all second, and has truly affected the world consciousness. This was a "miracle film," it should have never survived being made (it had many troubles before and during production, including having three directors, etc.), but had a "life of its own" and seemingly willed itself into being. It was thriving upon release in 1939, but really gained its notoriety from being publish every year from the ’50’s onwards. Generations of people have been raised now by this show, in that they are absorbed as young people while watching this narrative, and it affects their ideology, in addition to becoming part
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“Dorothy’s three companions on her trip to Oz have distant been read as male lover and for good reason. The Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion are misfits who do not conform to their perceived roles. The Scarecrow isn’t able to frighten anything, crow or otherwise, the Tin Guy constantly needs lubing up, and the Cowardly Lion seems to prefer mincing to roaring. This ostracisation is familiar to many gay guys who are often accused of existence less masculine than vertical guys. … It’s no wonder that the term ‘friend of Dorothy’ has prolonged been used as a low-key way of asking whether a guy is of the homosexual persuasion.”
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Gay Times, 2015
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Massachusetts-Born Star Hated Filming ‘The Wizard of Oz’
John Joseph Haley Jr. was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. Yet chances are the only reason you've heard of him is because of his role in the classic 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer film The Wizard of Oz.
Jack Haley, as he was acknowledged to fans, was born August 10, 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts to Jack Haley Jr. and Ellen Curley. Haley's father, a waiter and ship steward, died in the wreck of the schooner Charles A. Briggs in Nahant, Massachusetts, in 1898 when his son was just six months old.
Jack Haley would co-star in films with Shirley Temple and Frank Sinatra, and of course the film that brought him fame The Wizard of Oz with another child star, Judy Garland.
Haley was cast in The Wizard of Oz as the Tin Man, replacing Buddy Ebsen, who vacated the role after suffering an allergic reaction to the silver face makeup used in the movie. Haley also suffered a reaction to the aluminum-based makeup. An eye infection sidelined him for several days.
Haley married Florence McFadden in 1921, and the c
What's the gayest part of "The Wizard of Oz"?
Sorry, I made a mistake. L. Frank Baum wrote fourteen Ox books, not nineteen. they are:
1) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2) The Marvelous Land of Oz
3) Ozma of Oz
4) Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
5) The Thoroughfare to Oz
6) The Emerald City of Oz
7) The Patchwork Girl of Oz
8) Tiktok of Oz
9) The Scarecrow of Oz
10) Rinkitink in Oz
11) The Ruined Princess of Oz
12) The Tin Woodman of Oz
13) The Magic of Oz
14) Glinda of Oz
Plus there are a whole bunch of sequels written after Baum's death by other writers (most notably Ruth Plumly Thompson).
All of Baum's sequels are interesting and worth reading, although some are much more enjoyable than others. None of them has the influence of the original novel, though, which is such a masterpiece because of its inventiveness and because it so much captures the spirit of the turn of the century in the Great Plains. Dorothy is portrayed unlike how she is in the later books (where she's silly and vain), and is a very grave and serious child.
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