When the first installment of Jon M. Chu ’s Wicked premiered in 2024, online conservatives lambasted it for being too woke . The advocacy group One Million Moms even launched a boycott , arguing that the movie contained “a tremendous amount of witchcraft and sorcery.” Now the second film, Wicked: For Good, is hitting theaters , and conservative influencers are using new videos of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo on the film’s press tour to revive the trend with a brand-new angle: Hollywood has ruined the traditional Wizard of Oz story we know and love.

The recent uproar started when the conservative rage-bait account Libs of TikTok shared a video in which Grande sent love to queer fans. “Oz has always been a queer place , a safe place for queer people, for every dif

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