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Judy Garland as gay icon
Actress Judy Garland is widely considered a gay icon. ''The Advocate'' has called Garland "The Elvis of homosexuals." The reasons frequently given for her standing as an icon among gay men are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles seemed to mirror those of gay men in America during the height of her fame, and her value as a camp figure.〔Dyer, p. 156〕 Garland's role as Dorothy Gale in ''The Wizard of Oz'' is particularly noted for contributing to this status.
==Garland as tragic figure==
The tragic aspects of gay identification with Garland were being discussed in the mainstream as early as 1967. ''Time'' magazine, in reviewing Garland's 1967 Palace Theatre engagement, disparagingly noted that a "disproportionate part of her nightly claque seems to be homosexual." It goes on to say that "()he boys in the tight trousers" (a phrase ''Time'' repeatedly used to describe gay men, as when it described "ecstatic young men in tight trousers pranc() down the aisles to toss bouquets of roses" to another gay icon, Marlene Dietrich) would "roll their eyes, tear at their hair and practically levitate from their seats" during Garland's performances. ''Time'' then attempted to explain Garland's appeal to the homosexual, consulting psychiatrists who opined that "the attraction (Garland ) might be made considerably stronger by the fact that she has survived so many problems; homosexuals identify with that kind of hysteria" and that "Judy was beaten up by life, embattled, and ultimately had to become more masculine. She has the power that homosexuals would like to have, and they attempt to attain it by idolizing her."〔
Writer William Goldman, in a piece for ''Esquire'' magazine about the same Palace engagement, again disparages the gay men in attendance, dismissing them as "fags" who "flit by" chattering inanely. He goes on, however, to advance the tragic figure theory as well. After first suggesting that "if () have an enemy, it is age. And Garland is youth, perennially, over the rainbow,"〔 he wrote:
Openly gay comedian Bob Smith offers a comic take on the tragic figure theory, imagining an "Elvis king" and a "Judy queen", debating the idols:
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