At the London premiere of Wicked for Good, the film’s stars, pop singer Ariana Grande and actress Cynthia Erivo, told the press the Wizard of Oz has “always been a queer place” and added, “the gayer, the better.”

The comments came after a reporter asked what Grande and co-star Erivo had to say to gay fans of the original film and its latest remakes.

After the two stars pandered with an effusive string of “We Love Yous,” Grande went even farther with her comments.

“And Oz has always been a queer place,” Grande blurted out. “A safe space for queer people, for every different color of the rainbow, for everybody. Read the L Frank Baum books. It’s the truth. You’re safe with us. We love you so much. The gayer, the better.”

There are no explicitly gay characters in the famous Wizard of

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