Is gregory maguire gay

Elphaba in mid-flight uses the broom as a bannister. I wanted it to have a depth of culture, a depth of history and a depth of complexity, of experience that was more analogous to the world in which we live. I mean, if sexual practice among heterosexuals wasn’t mentioned by parents to teenagers, then, the possibility or even existence of homosexuality wasn’t even  whispered in locker rooms.

I bought a spy notebook, began to observe the world, and thus (eventually) to understand and unpack myself. I think many younger people growing up now in an era of accessibility and of identity politics can’t imagine how abandoned, shipwrecked, a gay boy in a Catholic high school could feel. Many LGBTQ+ clergy offer tacit solidarity, a quiet resistance to the institution’s oppressive stances.

For the sake of conversation, and to give ourselves a false sense of stability in a universe whose planets rock as wildly as electrons, we make blanket statements of assurance about this or that. As alone as a green-skinned Elphaba, isolated with no peers in a world of safely ordinary citizens.

While I could read well enough, and understood the story of Oscar Wilde and what some (few) boys were doing when they taunted the more sensitive or queer-reading boys among us (I was rarely the target, mercifully for me), the reality of what it all actually meant—when it came to love, when it came to passion, or to promise—seemed like a great black chalkboard slate on which no one, ever, had written a legible word.

I think they do have a real relationship, it is true love, which is probably why people are shipping it because what they build with each other is an unbreakable bond.”

Grande's comment about Glinda's sexuality sparked several conversations online, with even the original Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth, weighing in.

"I thought so too way back when….," Chenoweth commented on E!

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Further on in the interview, Grande continued to point out other character in Oz that may be part of the gay community, crowning Dr. What task? Was it for this that my mother had died, that I should grow up queer—twisted—defective? Of course I did. Also, I gave the citizens of Oz more variety of affectional preference, too, and I tried to avoid pathologizing my beloved characters, avoid assigning obvious or direct causes for why people are the way they are.

If you ask,  “Is there such a romantic item as Gelphie—a Galinda and Elphaba crush?”—I find I can’t answer that.

The three i’s, I considered it then:  Illegal. Pious and lapsed.) If I can’t even know myself very well, how possibly can I claim to know you? Dillamond as a “gay icon.”

“Every day in the Emerald City is a Pride parade, right?” the Grammy-winner said. I also read Daniel C. Maguire’s (no relation), Death by Choice.

Let’s just talk for a minute about him and his custom tea device as well. For one thing, I claimed faith for Oz—faith abroad in Oz. Not magical faith, as in Narnia, not a faith of miracles and interventions, but human faith, practiced and often abused.

Immoral. But I did try to put in the fabric of my anthropological look at L. Frank Baum’s original merry-land of pasteboard, nonsense, and vaudeville something of the moral seriousness of Middle-earth and of Narnia. I believed in the goodness of God and the mystery of God’s plan, and the sacred grace of discernment. But Liir—who is inept, confused, whiney, romantic, a foot-soldier on the road to his own Calvary, probably—Liir is definitely me.

Like Tolkien, whose Christianity came into Middle-earth at a slant, I tried to indicate the strength, the value, the danger of religious fervor in Oz without coming down on the side of one belief system or the other.

Maguire believes Elphaba’s “wickedness” stems from society’s inability to accept her, mirroring the struggles of many LGBTQ+ individuals who feel rejected for their authentic selves.

Silence and Underground Solidarity

Maguire critiques the church’s silencing of LGBTQ+ voices but also acknowledges the silent support found within its walls.