ABSTRACT
It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a Judy Garland CD must not be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a record store, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding public that Garland is considered the rightful property of some one or other of Dorothy’s friends. “It was no secret,” Michael Bronski observes, “that her most dedicated fans were gay men” (Bronski 1984: 103).
