Say what you want about Gregory Maguire and The Wicked Years books, at least he had a set of balls.
Like, the man did not back down from making an unashamedly queer book series about a classic book series that, intentionally or not, did have queer elements. And also took heavy inspriation from a classic movie made based on those books where Billie Burke played Glinda.
This man made the gayest, most trans friendly (for the 90s and early oughts), series of books I've ever come across. You've got polyamory right out the gate. Bisexuals, lesbians, gays, and pansexuals galore. A trans princess (no I will not let this go, can't believe this is canon in the og books too).
Elphie's bi, Glinda's a lesbian, Dorothy is some kind of fruity and going around kissing girls, a whole day couple legit just exists in the background which I will forgive simply because the book is primarily centered around Elphie's story.
