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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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To: daler

According to the article, her father was bisexual as he liked to diddle young men on the side.
The poor girl never really had a chance.


61 posted on 11/17/2023 4:34:59 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: x

Your TOS Geekery is strong. Respect.


62 posted on 11/17/2023 4:59:27 PM PST by M1911A1 (Drain The Swamp)
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To: DallasBiff

Probably not for millenial or Zoomer gays.


63 posted on 11/17/2023 5:01:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ansel12
Here is my favorite version of her singing the song in 1943.

Here's my favorite cover, by Eva Cassidy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY

64 posted on 11/17/2023 5:37:22 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: DallasBiff
My favorite Judy Garland song is The Texas Tornado from the 1936 film Pigskin Parade which, in my opinion, is her best film. Much of it was shot on the campus of Occidental College, which is located on the western slope of Fiji Hill.
65 posted on 11/17/2023 5:46:26 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: TChad

Wow, she is fantastic.


66 posted on 11/17/2023 5:47:08 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: ealgeone
Note the reference to "Over the Rainbow" in the song "Stairway to Heaven":

Over the rainbow,
That's where I'm going to climb.
Way up high where the bluebirds fly,
I'm going to love you all of the time.

67 posted on 11/17/2023 5:55:57 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ansel12; EagleOne; Angelino97
In her version of Over the Rainbow from 1940, Vera Lynn sings the rarely heard verse, which does, indeed, sound like a Great Depression song.
68 posted on 11/17/2023 6:02:09 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ansel12
Wow, she is fantastic.

She's one of my three favorite American singers. She was never a household name, because she was killed by malignant melanoma at age 33.

If you don't know her story, here's her wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Cassidy

69 posted on 11/17/2023 6:08:56 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: dznutz

Here she is meeting and singing to wounded troops in a hospital in 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WI4wBMz1ts


70 posted on 11/17/2023 7:17:19 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 guess it was the fabulous sparkly shoes she wore.


71 posted on 11/18/2023 12:04:31 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Dr. Sivana

War is hell.


72 posted on 11/18/2023 7:54:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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