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Gay Iconography: Lots of Love For Liza<\/b><\/p>\n

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\"Lizacab\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the pantheon on gay<\/a> icons, there are a few that sit a wee bit higher atop the great gay<\/a> Mount Olympus. Your Chers, Barbras, certain idols for whom there is a reverence that contemporary stars can only aspire to.<\/p>\n

Liza Minnelli is one of those idols.<\/p>\n

“I think probably Barbra and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts because we didn’t have standard looks,” Minnelli told Newsweek in 2006<\/a>. “Maybe what a gay<\/a> icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.”<\/p>\n

The daughter of fellow beloved icon Judy Garland, Liza’s distinctive features, oversized stage persona and personal struggles have endeared her to the gay<\/a> community for decades. Whether she was battling addiction, overcoming debilitating encephalitis or having her love life splashed across the tabloids, Liza’s persevered with the kind of resilience and old-school showbiz style that’s made her a legend.<\/p>\n

Through it all, she’s also been an outspoken advocate of the LGBT community, particularly around HIV\/AIDS awareness. She’s done lots of work with amfAR, which she told Palm Springs Life magazine<\/a> is so important to her, “because I’ve lost so many friends that I knew [to AIDS].” She even told Broadwayworld.com<\/a> in 2006 that she was the one who first told amfAR co-founder Elizabeth Taylor about HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n

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“I invited Rock Hudson to a concert with Elizabeth Taylor. I hadn’t seen him in a long time. When I saw him he looked different. I thought that he looked like just a couple<\/a> of friends that I had seen lately in New York, who had this new disease. I said to Elizabeth,’There is something called AIDS, and I don’t know, but I think Rock may have it.’ She said, ‘He looks ghastly, what is it?’ I explained it to her as much as I knew. She said, ‘We have to do something. She stood up and said, ‘This is out of the question that people are being treated like this.’”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Get the dizzies over some of our favorite Minnelli moments, AFTER THE JUMP<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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Liza made her film debut at the age of three in the final scene of Garland’s film In the Good Old Summertime<\/em>. She also appeared in some of her mother’s television specials, including her duet with Tracy Everitt from The Judy Garland Christmas Show<\/em>, above.<\/p>\n

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Of course, it was her turn in 1972’s Cabaret<\/em> that solidified Liza as a star in her own right. Playing saucy expat Sally Bowles, Minnelli’s career-defining performance won her an Academy Award for Best Actress. She also has four Tony Awards and an Emmy. She’s not considered a true “EGOT” winner, however, because her Grammy win was a special award in a non-competitive category.<\/p>\n

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Fresh off the success of Cabaret<\/em>, songwriters Fred Ebb and John Kander joined again with director\/choreographer Bob Fosse to give Liza another memorable performance with the television concert Liza With A “Z”<\/em>. The special featured Liza singing new songs, standards and a medley from Cabaret<\/em>. Beyond Liza’s athletic performance through the song and dance numbers, the special is also notable for the iconic costumes designed by Halston.<\/p>\n

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In 1989 Minnelli worked with Pet Shop Boys on a dance album, Results<\/em>. Stephen Sondheim wrote the single, “Losing My Mind,” above.<\/p>\n

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A beleaguered Liza became something of a punchline later in her career, partially fueled by her strange relationship with and acrimonious divorce from David Gest. She fought back from a battle with viral encephalitis that doctors said should have left her confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak, let alone go on to make appearances in Sex and the City 2<\/em><\/a>, Smash<\/em><\/a> and Law and Order: Criminal Intent<\/em><\/a>. However, our favorite late-career Liza is as Lucille Austero on Fox\/Netflix’s Arrested Development<\/em>. The vertigo-afflicted rival to Jessica Walter’s icy Lucille Bluth, Minnelli is a hilariously wacky addition to one of the funniest sitcoms of all time.<\/p>\n

What are your favorite Liza memories?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n


\nBobby Hankinson<\/p>\n

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