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Why is Judy Garland the ultimate gay icon?
BBC ^ | 9/24/19 | Louis Staples

Posted on 11/17/2023 12:48:16 PM PST by DallasBiff

On 25 March, 1969, Judy Garland took to the stage at the Falkoner Center in Copenhagen. As she reached the crescendo of Over the Rainbow – the song which made her a global star aged just 17 – it was unknown to the audience that they were watching her final live performance. Four months later, 47 year-old Garland was found dead in Chelsea, London, after accidentally overdosing on the drugs she had self-medicated with since childhood. One of the headlines would read: “Judy’s voice stilled. The rainbow is gone.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
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Well she was a gay icon, time to dump her in the conservative memory hole, even when she had a beautiful voice, and time to cancel according to conservative radicals.

RIP Judy.

1 posted on 11/17/2023 12:48:16 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: ansel12

Have at it.


2 posted on 11/17/2023 12:49:11 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Don’t turn into a stalker and ping me to threads I’m not on.


3 posted on 11/17/2023 12:52:09 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff
Because drag queens didn't want to do Ethel Merman?

-PJ

4 posted on 11/17/2023 12:53:23 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ansel12

Can’t handle the truth?


5 posted on 11/17/2023 12:53:36 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Nobody can sing like Ethel Mermen.


6 posted on 11/17/2023 12:54:21 PM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: DallasBiff

As far as I know, she never promoted perverted stuff in her shows, movies or records. Her talent was amazing, singing of course, but her acting (see her in “Meet Me in St. Louis”) and dancing (easily keeping up with Fred Astaire in “Easter Parade”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSCwP_4YGU ). A professional’s professional.

A tragic life, easily predicted by her upbringing.


7 posted on 11/17/2023 12:54:53 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Jonty30
Nobody can sing like Ethel Mermen.

That guy in "Airplane!" did a pretty god job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZdqsCW8vM
8 posted on 11/17/2023 12:56:14 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Political Junkie Too

😜👍.............................


9 posted on 11/17/2023 12:56:52 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Dr. Sivana

That WAS Ethel Merman!..............


10 posted on 11/17/2023 12:57:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DallasBiff
Why is Judy Garland the ultimate gay icon?

I never knew she was.......All I knew is that she's dead.

11 posted on 11/17/2023 12:57:51 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: DallasBiff

Because Judy and her daughter married so many gay men?


12 posted on 11/17/2023 1:00:45 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: DallasBiff; Admin Moderator

You have become a stalker and are carrying grudges from thread to thread, pinging me to threads I’m not on to start arguments, and not making any sense in any of it and for no known reason.


13 posted on 11/17/2023 1:02:19 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

“I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore”


14 posted on 11/17/2023 1:02:26 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff
time to cancel according to conservative radicals

You are spouting utter nonsense.

15 posted on 11/17/2023 1:04:26 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Red Badger
That WAS Ethel Merman!...

But in the movie they said he was a man suffering from delusions of being Ethel Meman. Very convincing, I admit...
16 posted on 11/17/2023 1:05:03 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: CaptainK

Remember she was brought up and found employment via the studio. Even Shirley Temple mentioned some of the meetings she had with studio executives. Luckily her mom guided her through that mine field.


17 posted on 11/17/2023 1:06:11 PM PST by mware
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To: DallasBiff

Certain groups have a knack for taking anything innocent or whimsical, and recreating it in their twisted mindset.


18 posted on 11/17/2023 1:06:43 PM PST by dznutz
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To: DallasBiff

That headline is an illustration of a logical fallacy.
However, we can answer the question by referring to the article:
Because she killed herself.


20 posted on 11/17/2023 1:10:40 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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