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Whether you are a gay person who loves the Glinda/Elphaba relationship, or someone with no ties whatsoever to this context, it’s clearly been made for anyone to enjoy and feel connected, and will continue to for generations to come. A love triangle where they’re all gay! But it didn’t go that way, which I find weirdly refreshing.

It is true love, which is probably why people are shipping it. After years of readers sensing some romantic tension between Elphaba and Glinda in the book, including through the characters sharing a kiss in one moment, Maguire said this to Them in 2024:

That was intentional, and it was modest and restrained and refined in such a way that one could imagine that one of those two young women had felt more than the other and had not wanted to say it.

There are so many gays in this cast! The movie’s “found family” story has resonated with queer audiences for decades, especially before there were actual queer characters anywhere to be found in media. Let’s get into it, because it’s an important piece of its legacy.
The Wizard Of Oz Has Long Been Thought Of As Queer-Coded
You can’t really talk about Wicked without going way back in time and starting with The Wizard of Oz.

What we need is a dignified heroine willing to sacrifice her personal desires for the benefit of the collective — and that’s exactly what Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba delivers. And yet, when she performed, she exhibited this level of authentic emotion,” she developed such a prominent following of gay fans who could identify with her struggles, and came in droves to support her during her career.
The Wicked Book Makes The Romantic Undertones To Glinda And Elphaba’s Relationship Canon
With all that history in context, let’s move over to Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch (which became a series of four books).

“I reached a point where I thought, Fuck this, I’d much prefer to hold my boyfriend’s hand in public or be able to put my own face picture on Tinder and not be so concerned about that than getting a part.”
In my professional opinion, Fiyero being played by a gay man only adds to my headcanon that Elphaba and Glinda are in a relationship with each other and Fiyero is merely their platonic but perhaps toxically enmeshed gay boy best friend.

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He swoons over Fiyero! And though I Google “Ariana Grande bisexual” at least quarterly, there are no updates on that front either. Now that is a love worth waiting for. It’s a classic-period to every fan of cinema, but it also holds a lot of significance to the queer community.