Gay tin man

John Joseph Haley Jr. (August 10, – June 6, ) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. Most remarkably, is the homosexual male identification with Dorothy herself; perfectly embodied by the equally happy and sad Judy Garland – whose untimely death in inadvertently sparked the Stonewall Riots.

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). AI'sDomain's "Is the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz Gay?": Oz probably doesn't work with Earth's taboo set of sexuality and sexual orientation. (Especially if you import Maguire) Being an explicitly matriarchal society would skew things to begin with.

That being said?. Not only is there a rainbow above them, and they're staying lovingly into each other's eyes while Scarecrow does something nice for Tin Man, but the umbrella is LITERALLY COLOURED LIKE THE GAY MAN PRIDE FLAG. It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things.

And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become men, and then Annie walks into their lives, and it changes nothing and everything. Occasionally I read a book that reminds me why reading means so much to me. Each decade of my life is marked by a few books that touch me and leave an indelible mark on my heart. It is that rare thing, perfect and hauntingly beautiful.

It tells of Ellis and Michael, who meet as children, become inseparable, grow into men and into their lives comes Annie. It deals with not only the fluid nature of their love and friendships, but confronts the reader with the reality of what it meant to be gay, as the Aids epidemic tore the Gay community apart.

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Of Michael a writer, who follows the path he was marked out for, but seems always to be destined to settle for less than the love he deserves and yearns for. The joy of Tin Man is the simple way it deals with love and identity.

I fell in love with both Michael and Ellis, my heart ached for them and Alice, to the point it became one of only a handful of books to make me cry. They are there, because this is a story about love and friendship and the very thin line that divides the two, not just because a character is LGBT. When reading books that contain Gay, lesbian or bi-sexual people, it often feels that they are shoe horned into a story to fill some vague quota, not so in Tin Man.

Ellis, Michael and Anna are caught up in the complicated feelings that define human love and this should not separate and define them just because of their sexuality. Read it because it will break you and then heal you. Because it is a story about what it means to love and the joys of friendship.

Because boys and men are capable of beautiful things and that love is not defined by the narrow confines of heterosexuality. Sarah Winman was born in Illford, Essex. A British actress and author, her first novel When God Became A Rabbit became an international bestseller and won Winman several awards. August 23, Review Occasionally I read a book that reminds me why reading means so much to me.

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