The priority of audience over artist becomes particularly clear in the case of the ultimate idol of the gay masses, Judy Garland. read more
Finally, Judy Garland's funeral corresponded with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, where at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a riot broke out when police raided against the GLBT patrons, an ongoing pattern of oppression by local police. read more
In discussing Judy Garland's camp appeal, gay film scholar Richard Dyer has defined camp as "a characteristically gay way of handling the values, images and products of the dominant culture through irony, exaggeration, trivialisation, theatricalisation and an ambivalent making fun of and out of the serious and respectable". read more