Citations:friend of Dorothy


 * 1995, Fiona Cooper, Blossom at the Mention of Your Name, Serpents Tail
 * Historically, if you weren't sure, because you just could NOT be faintly camp, they talked about the friends of Dorothy. Do you know Dorothy? Are you one of Dorothy's friends? I assume it came from a passion for the divine Miss Garland.


 * 2002, Stephen Tropiano, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Hal Leonard Corporation (ISBN 9781476847986)
 * Beecher and Keller aren't the only friends of Dorothy living in Oz. The population includes a group of self-admitted homosexuals who play integral roles in some of the major storylines. In the show's first season, Billie Keane (Derrick Simmons),


 * 2003, Liz Lochhead, Willie Rodger, The Colour of Black & White, Birlinn Limited
 * Yet all of my friends are friends of Dorothy,
 * Yeah, friends of Dorothy.
 * Now, I'm cool and glib about gay lib
 * But suddenly it's got to me
 * That all of my friends are friends of Dorothy.
 * And why oh why do they get that vexed
 * About my mainstream


 * 2005, Karen Christel Krahulik, Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort, NYU Press (ISBN 9780814747810), page 136:
 * Others, like Alice Foley, heard about “P-town's” “artistic” climate from “friends of Dorothy.” Calling one another “friends of Dorothy,” a reference to the Wizard of Oz, or “Mary” and using terms like “artistic” to mean gay friendly, were passwords


 * 2014, Richard J. Gray II, The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays, McFarland (ISBN 9780786492527), page 85:
 * Closeted “Friends of Dorothy” started using the film as a secret reference to their own homosexuality, while “Over the Rainbow” and its singer Judy Garland became gay icons to such an extent that