#{oz}

do you ever think about how oz is so culturally linked to queerness that it inspired a gay man to write a book exploring what it means to be wicked vs good with the vibes of someone who lived through stonewall and the aids epidemic baked into its foundation and filled to the brim with queer allegories and subtext so good that it inspired another gay man to adapt said book into a broadway musical that somehow made the relationship between its leads more gay despite removing the explicit queerness between them from the books and adding in a male love interest—in a traditionally female trope/role—in an attempt to create a hetero love triangle but ultimately backfired and instead created the doomed sapphics romantic tragedy of all time akin to the greats like the titanic + romeo & juliet and then said musical based on the queer book rooted in oz’s ties to the queer community went on to get a hollywood movie musical adaptation with an almost entirely queer cast—including its main three leads—with the actresses who play glinda and elphaba explicitly portraying their roles as a lesbian and bisexual, respectively…