Talk:Friend of Dorothy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject LGBT studies, which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBT related issues on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page. |
| Stub | This article has been rated as Stub-Class. |
- This article was nominated for deletion on June 11, 2005; the consensus was to keep. For discussion, please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Friend of Dorothy.
Sheesh. Ms. Dorothy ran a boardinghouse in Kansas that was friendly to our sort. I couldn't remember the details, thought I would find them here. Update to follow? Sorry this is my first attempt to edit a wiki and i may not have the process down. It has nothing to do with our patron saint Judy Garland - it's a much older term. posted by user:65.29.85.230 (moved here from article by Exploding Boy July 4, 2005 00:04 (UTC)).
Contents |
[edit] Did it?
I read on snopes.com a while back the claim that the term originated during wwii and was used in Europe to identify friend in hostile areas.
[edit] ...or consider this:
(from me, a newish Wikipedian:) I don't know who wrote the above but of late I've been thinking it probably started with Dorothy Parker who was said to welcome gay men to her legendary parties in her Harlem apartment(?), but that the slang term made more sense to gays nationally to have something to do with "Dorothy" from Oz. I'm hoping the contributor mentioning a boarding house in Kansas could elaborate. (The coincidence with Kansas of The Wizard of Oz, [just for starters], makes me question that.) I haven't been able to find the reference mentioned above on Snopes.com. There is another possibility methinks: could it have had to do with Billy Tipton?, (born Dorothy), since it has been written that his/her fellow jazz performers knew she was a female as far back as 1935. Can we get this sorted out? It could be of national importance. ;-) dowser 17:04, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- I've never heard this origin before... Kyaa the Catlord 22:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contradiction?
I haven't seen anything either on the article page or discussion page that looks like a contradiction to me. I'm changing the tag from a contradiction claim to an accuracy dispute. Gbm85 21:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dispute tag removed
I removed the dispute tag after rephrasing the paragraph containing various claims to the term's origin. The term's origins are unknown. Various theories abound. No one knows for sure. If a citation can be given for an origin then we have a different situation. --SFDan 13:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
