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Ambiguous, Undecipherable, Suspended : The Life and Murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Ep.54)

Send J. Harvey a text! (Try to be nice, but I get it, everyone's a petty cranky sometimes...) Pier Paolo Pasolini was a poet, novelist, filmmaker, and one of Italy's most celebrated (and most controversial) figures. He was murdered by a teenage hustler in 1975. Or was he? Successfully, the murder part happened, but was it committed by the Freemasons? The Catholic Church? The Mafia? The Italian government? Pasolini had a lot of anti-fans. Let's detect out. Music by Pixaby. Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREE Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREE Support the show Subscribe to Wicked Gay on Patreon (Patreon.com/wickedgay ) for extra episodes and bonus content! You can discover Wicked Gay on Facebook, Twitter/X, Bkuesky, Instagram, and TikTok under “Wickedgaypod.” (Wicked Gay is probably leaving X/Twitter soon for obvious reasons.)


Musical review throwback: queer coding in “Wicked”

“Wicked” is a sensational musical that explores the origin stories of the Wicked Witch of the West and the Nice Witch of the South from “The Wizard of Oz.” Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, its protagonists Elphaba and Glinda navigate the highs and lows of their fierce, tumultuous relationship while trying to preserve Oz from the conniving Wizard. 

Since it debuted on Broadway in 2004, “Wicked” has been hugely popular amongst the queer society. While the musical features no explicitly queer characters, Maguire is openly gay and many media analysts have noted multiple elements of the show that assist as obvious metaphors for queerness. 

Firstly, Elphaba and Glinda’s relationship contains heavy homoerotic undertones. Although both women pursue romantic relationships with the charming prince Fiyero, most of the plot focuses on the connection between Elphaba and Glinda. Some critics view Elphaba and Glinda as bisexual or pansexual, while others argue that both women are coded as lesbians and their interest in Fiyero develops as a reaction to societal expectations and compulsory heterosexuality. 

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4. But Are They Gay? A Gay Take on Elphaba and Glinda

Questions eight and nine asked respondents to characterize the relationship between Gelphie, and asked if Wicked is a “queer” musical and how so, respectively. The brief answers are yes, most ship it, but whether it is a homosexual musical was very up for debate. Among the six heterosexual respondents, for instance, four outright said that the show was not queer or that Glinda and Elphaba were not a couple, while one said she could see the potential and one said Gelphie is her OTP (one accurate pairing). Among gay respondents, many saw the musical as not as gender non-conforming as the guide, or not gender non-conforming at all because characters who are canonically queer in the book are not discussed or erased. For instance, Gregory Maguire has confirmed that Elphaba and Glinda were in some type of relationship, so both are canonically bisexual, and Elphaba is hinted to be intersex. Other folks saw the show as definitely queer or the potential for it to be peruse as queer, comprehending its need to insert the affectionate triangle and form the show “family friendly” in the name of ticket sales, but “the way it is structured, the choices musically etc create it clear tha

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One of my favorite fun party facts is that all of the guys from 'Mean Girls' eventually came out as gay in real life.

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Damian?

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He's gay.

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Aaron Samuels?

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And Kevin G?

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Well, I think we finally have a movie that outgayed "Mean Girls," and ding ding ding, that's "Wicked."

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First up, there's Jonathan Bailey, who plays Prince Fiyero.

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Next up is Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba.

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Well, here she is with her partner, Lena Waithe.

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Then we have Bowen Yang, who plays Pfannee.

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No surprise here: Gay.

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Then there's Bronwyn James, who plays Shenshen.

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And lastly, Marissa Bode plays Nessarose.

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