The painting "A Friend of Dorothy, 1943" features slurs that the artists have been called.
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Titled "A Friend of Dorothy, 212," it was composed entirely of old-time homosexual slurs: fairy, pansy, nellie, etc.
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It's called "A Friend of Dorothy, 19603," though it was made 40 years later; they often sign their work with a long-bygone date to "save it from obscurity" — obscurity being the present.
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Judy Garland in her role as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz is one of two likely origins for the phrase "friend of Dorothy" referring to a gay man or LGBTQ person. In gay slang, a "friend of Dorothy" (FOD) is a gay man; and more broadly, any LGBTQ person. The phrase dates back to at least World War II, when homosexual acts were illegal in the United States. Stating that, or asking if, someone was a friend of Dorothy was a euphemism used for discussing sexual orientation without others knowing its meaning.
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It required the donations from many generous people including Queen Elizabeth II, to eventually get the work published in 1981 on Byrne's 86th birthday. A friend of Dorothy L. Sayers from their days at Somerville, she co-wrote the play upon which Sayers's novel Busman's Honeymoon was later based. She died 2 December 1983 and was buried in Marylebone Cemetery, London. She left a collection of her papers, correspondence and photographs to Somerville College Library.
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Cult Following (2012) dealt with her experiences as a teenage Jehovah's Witness, Half a Can of Worms (2013) was about tracking down her biological family and Friend of a Friend of Dorothy (2015) was about feminism, sexism and homophobia. Frances-White has continued to develop new improvisation formats. Voices in Your Head is a show which allows comedians, improvisers and actors to create comedy characters while the audience watches. Guests have included Phill Jupitus, Sara Pascoe, Russell Tovey, Mike McShane and Hannibal Buress.
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A variety of LGBT slang terms have been used historically and contemporarily within the LGBT community. In addition to the stigma surrounding homosexuality, terms have been influenced by taboos around sex in general, producing a number of euphemisms. A gay person may be described as "that way", "a bit funny", "on the bus", "batting for the other team", "a friend of Dorothy", "wearing comfortable shoes" (for women), although such euphemisms are becoming less common as homosexuality becomes more visible. Harry Hay frequently stated that, in the 1930s–1940s, gay people referred to themselves as temperamental.
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A "furtive shibboleth" is a type of a shibboleth that identifies individuals as being part of a group, not based on their ability to pronounce one or more words, but on their ability to recognize a seemingly innocuous phrase as a secret message. For example, members of Alcoholics Anonymous sometimes refer to themselves as "a friend of Bill W.", which is a reference to AA's founder, William Griffith Wilson. To the unindoctrinated, this would seem like a casual – if off-topic – remark, but other AA members would understand its meaning. Similarly, during World War II, a homosexual US sailor might call himself a "friend of Dorothy", a tongue- in-cheek acknowledgment of a stereotypical affinity for Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. This code was so effective that the Naval Investigative Service, upon learning that the phrase was a way for gay sailors to identify each other, undertook a search for this "Dorothy", whom they believed to be an actual woman with connections to homosexual servicemen in the Chicago area.
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