Are glinda and elphaba gay

I wanted to propose this possibility.

Wicked author confirms Elphaba :

The original author of Wicked has confirmed it was 'intentional' for their to be a lesbian subplot between Glinda and Elphaba. Sign in now. In his original novel, the two women kiss — and as fans on TikTok note, that kind of lightly romantic contact has appeared in some versions of the stage play.

Or perhaps because a novelist can't write every scene, perhaps when the lights were out and the novelist was out having a smoke in the back alley, the girls had sex in the bed on the way to the Emerald City. Cynthia Erivo plays Elphaba; Jonathan Bailey, an openly gay actor, takes on Fiyero; and Bowen Yang steals scenes as Glinda’s sidekick, Pfannee.

Wicked Author Gregory Maguire : Now, the actors -- new and old -- are weighing in

Are Elphaba and Glinda romantically in love with each other in Wicked? Like so many fancanons built around fraught, complicated relationships, the Gelphie fandom lends itself to both big, dramatic conflict and happily-ever-after hopes. And inevitably, fans who know how the whole musical plays out have been imagining a better future for Glinda and Elphaba, as happy lovers who grow old together.

Here's what author Gregory Maguire has said. Jon M. Popular fanfiction site A03 has Gelphie-tagged Wicked fics going back as far as But the passion Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda put into the characters on screen whenever they look at or touch each other has inspired a new generation to post Gelphie memes, fanfic, fan art, and video edits all over social media.

I'm not even sure what it is. What is this feeling?