Yeah, I remember those times from the Ramrod on West to Warhol and his band of freaks. I had many chances to watch the show.
I assure you Garland’s music made her a homosexual icon.
The fact that she surrounded herself with homosexual and transvestites made her a fag-hag. Ordinary city single hetero women who galumphed down to Christopher street or buddied up with homosexual men at work, think fashion and publishing, were known among the blunt as fag hags.
Look, this is an unimportant distinction. If you want to have your own definition of fag hag that’s fine. I’m sure the term is a moveable feast. My original reply was to someone else that I didn’t think a college girl who has a gay friend is a fag hag. More likely, just a young girl who is not ready for the real world yet.
Garland was revered because of her stupendous talent and her seemingly poignant personal life which played into the lachrymose and victim-obsessed personalities of gay males.