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Just as he wrestled with being both gay and Catholic, Elphaba faces society’s prejudice and fears while trying to stay true to her desire to do good. But Liir—who is inept, confused, whiney, romantic, a foot-soldier on the road to his own Calvary, probably—Liir is definitely me.

Like Tolkien, whose Christianity came into Middle-earth at a slant, I tried to indicate the strength, the value, the danger of religious fervor in Oz without coming down on the side of one belief system or the other.

Give it a little more time. Frankly, it weighs on me still. “Even the chickens… those chickens are gay. Immoral. I taught myself to be honest, and to honor honesty, even if it felt cruel to speak some thoughts aloud (to the secret page).

And so my being a Roman Catholic and my being gay, a seemingly intractable pair of characteristics, were joined by a third identity: that of being a writer.

Which brings us, through Narnia and through love, to my living in England when I turned 39, and beginning to feel my time had come.

Yes; it wasn’t the good nuns and worthy priests, the hard-working and emotionally timid parents who rescued me. And in my generation, at least in my provincial Irish-Catholic setting, the concept of “experimentation” was hardly discussed, let alone entered into. Elphaba in mid-flight uses the broom as a bannister.

Many LGBTQ+ clergy offer tacit solidarity, a quiet resistance to the institution’s oppressive stances. So I slogged through childhood, panting: breathing in the concepts of obligation, of moral debt, of responsibilities to shoulder with every intake; and breathing out the fear that I would not be up to the task that it seemed God had set me.

I could do this. Anyway my understanding of just how pious or how skeptical I am whips about with all the geo-locatability of an untrackable electron, according to what the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle claims. In Wicked, contradictions are invitations to think deeply about our own assumptions. Fanfic writers your time is now.

As for what Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have said about the Gelphie theories, Cynthia told Gay Times: "I think Elphie is [queer].

It happens just before they arrive in the Emerald City so there's plenty of space for this imagined sex scene to happen.

An Elphaba and Glinda sex scene before 'One Short Day' happens in the musical? And more than one faith, because my Oz was intended to emulate our own real  world with its crusades and creeds, its frictions and its paradoxes.

Still photo from the movie “Wicked”: Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Galinda

I also claimed vaster romantic possibilities for the people of Oz, though I largely indicated this by indirection.

In the words of the title of philosopher Alan Watts’ book, The Wisdom of Insecurity–—another literary work that served to keep me functional when I was starting college. (Straight and gay, even. She goes wherever the wind goes, I think she loves Glinda. But because I grew up in a household that relished writing and reading, and funny storytelling at dinner, a household whose only real perq was an abundance of library cards among nine of us, I read in order to survive.

It was published when I was 41, nearly thirty years ago.

Is Wicked about being gay, is it about being Christian in any way? I wanted to propose this possibility, but I did not want to make a declarative statement."

As mentioned above, Elphaba and Glinda actually kiss in the book.