friend of Dorothy
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Etymology
Commonly thought to refer to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), portrayed by gay icon Judy Garland; alternatively (or additionally) it could be a reference to writer Dorothy Parker, who was friends with many gay men.
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Noun
friend of Dorothy (plural friends of Dorothy)
- (slang, dated, euphemistic) A homosexual man.
- 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison):
- He's a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I'm saying?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:friend of Dorothy.
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Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2024) “Dorothy’s friend n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang