This week on The Sewers of Paris (a podcast about the entertainment that changed the lives of gay men) my guest is Michael Price, a former Mormon who was convinced that his homosexuality made him wicked — until the Broadway show Wicked showed him that wickedness is a relative term.
Just like the witch Elphaba, he realized that being born into circumstances beyond his control didn’t make him a bad person.
No wonder gay men love witches — they’re everything we could ever want to be, and they know our pain.
Like us, witches must often must pass as mundane humans. They slip into disguise, painfully cloaking their true forms in dreary camouflage, like Anjelica Houston in The Witches, or the time I had to wear khakis to a job interview.
Some witches are seductive, like Elvira, or Maleficent or Bayonetta. They’re as sexually uninhibited as a twink on Grindr, free of puritan constraints about what’s proper and polite. They know what they want, they know how to get it and they can manipulate anyone with a promise of pleasure.
And sometimes, they’re both — sexy and hideous, beautiful and monstrous. Like Ursula the Sea Witch, who consorts with eels but reminds you not to underestimate the importance of body language, ha.
I guess my point is, witches, if you’re listening, it’s time for us to team up. If we gay men joined forces with you witches, we can conquer the puny humans once and for all, taking over the world and ushering in a new era of amazing hats.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-baume/why-gay-men-are-obsessed-_b_7854646.html