Bert lahr gay

The Lion identifies himself through song as a "sissy" and exhibits stereotypically "gay" (or at least effeminate) mannerisms. Irving Lahrheim (August 13, – December 4, ), known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American stage and screen actor and comedian. Sign me up. Judy Garland would go on in her musical career to gather a huge following of gay men, to the extent that being "a friend of Dorothy" (FOD) meant being gay.

Actor Bert Lahr’s interpretation of the Cowardly Lion was based on effeminate gay stage and screen characters known as sissies, or pansies. Log in now. Home About. Blog at WordPress. All views expressed herein are my own, and do not reflect those of the Olympians, the Aesir, the Fairy Fellowship, or the Court of Ozma of Oz.

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Tony winners, from left, gay actor Sir Alec Guinness, Sandy Dennis, Carol Channing, and Bert Lahr pose with their Antoinette Perry medallions at the 18th Annual Tony Awards ceremony at the New. That comes from interpreting the three central male characters Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), Tin Man (Jack Haley), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) as gay men revolving around a campy heroine (Judy Garland’s Dorothy).

Crafts and Cons Posted on October 5, by Nathan. The pansy character originated in the nightclubs of. It was revived recently, with Wayne Brady playing the titular role. This post is primarily about Oz, but my idea for it came from a non-Oz-related source.

Fortunately, he did not forget the lyrics. Even more intriguing is that in one of Frank Baum’s published Oz stories, the Cowardly Lion remarks, “Any friend of Dorothy must be our friend, as well.”. Subscribe Subscribed. He was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of The Wizard of Oz ().

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"In the film, Dorothy immediately accepts those who are different, including the Cowardly Lion (in a very camp performance by Bert Lahr). The character of the Cowardly Lion, portrayed by Bert Lahr in a manner that some critics have termed effeminate or stereotypically gay.

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