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Love big enough to hold both the insinuation of romance and also its absence. Now, as Out always asks, how gay is it?. Destroying fascism is the sexiest thing I can think of. And that, my friends, is way cooler than the flimsy fantasy of sexual tension between two hot actors — three, if you count Fiyero.

Is the whole film covertly queer coded?

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Wicked. One that chooses love for the people — and all sentient animals — over romance between individuals. Now that is a love worth waiting for. It is true love, which is probably why people are shipping it. Glinda, it turns out, has a complicated past with Elphaba.

Log in to hide these messages. Also yes. For just under a month Twitter has been awash with comments about how gay Wicked’s characters are, from Glinda’s somewhat obvious love for Elphaba to Boq being secretly in the closet.

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Join now and protect truth where it matters most. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. In the film, the relationship between the two feels like it could easily veer into classic enemies-to-lovers territory.

Join today and support our work. What they gay with each other is an unbreakable bond and love. We hope you will join us once again. Already contributed? Wicked is also about finding a way to live with your annoying roommate—which isn’t exclusively gay but is somehow very queer-relatable.

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But to me, this is a problem with Wicked the stage musical as well, as the second half is definitely weaker than the first. Is the author of the original book a gay man who has said in interviews that fantasy novels are important for young queers and intimated that Glinda may not be as straight as she seems?

Why settle for a potentially tepid on-screen kiss when we could have the revolution? Main Menu. In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays wicked in facts and empathy. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves.

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