[Joe Wilson]

noticed this question yesterday and today happened across an Atlantic Monthly article dealing with the same topic – why Garland appealed to gay men and what’s become of that connection in the 80s and 90s. Check it out in the August 2000 Atlantic Monthly. Gist of the article is that Garland as an icon for gay men has become an embarrassment and largely discarded as the stereotype of gay men as effeminate drag queens has shifted to masculine, buff, hard bodied cowboys, bikers and Gold’s Gym regulars. The writer’s explanation for Garland as the diva of choice in the 60s mentioned her own tragic life as metaphor for the duplicity of gay life itself in that era. Check it out at the library or Barnes and Noble, page 62, ‘The Queen is Dead’ by Michael Joseph Gross. Long article on the topic – almost like the author’s interst was piqued by reading the query here on YForum. You out there Michael Gross??

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