While many LGBT vacationers opt for the cool, queer-friendly
climes of Fire Island or Provincetown, there’s another option
for those who prefer to take the road less traveled: the Yellow
Brick Road. Yes, folks, that Yellow Brick Road. According to an
article in the Wall Street Journal, historian John Curran has
identified a stretch of yellow-bricked road in Peekskill, New
York as the inspiration for the one that Dorothy famously
traveled in L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel, The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz. Although scholars in other parts of the country
might beg to differ, Curran has conducted years of research and
concluded that this bit of road is the one that sparked Baum’s
imagination. Curran’s argument is based in part on fact: Baum
lived two years of his young life in Peekskill, attending a
military academy there. Legend has it that when he stepped off
the boat and asked for directions to the school, he was told to
“follow the yellow brick road”. Unfortunately for Curran — not
to mention historians, preserv