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Oz's Wicked Witch a lesbian icon
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Did you know that the Wicked Witch of the West is a gay and lesbian icon? Well, surely you knew that Ben Hur is a gay romance? The same goes for Lord of the Rings, of course. Frodo and Sam Gamgee are the first gay couple of Middle-earth, according to this reading.
One of the beautiful things about movies is that no two people see the same one. I may look at Lawrence of Arabia and see a story of magnificent folly, the rise and fall of an unusual Englishman, but the film is more notorious in gay circles. "Florence of the Desert" is one of its nicknames, based on the idea that Peter O'Toole wore so much make-up he turned it into a drag show.
There is a clear subtext in the original film too: when Orrens is captured and tortured by the Turkish officer, the implication is that he is raped. Worse, he can't face the idea that he liked the pain. That becomes one of the reasons for the hardening of his attitude towards the Turks. "No prisoners", and all that guff.
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