Judy Didn’t Cause Stonewall!
Some fanciful souls are convinced that Judy Garland, who died 40 years ago this week, was responsible for the Stonewall Rebellion, which also happened 40 years ago. Gay grief, they say, occasioned by saturation coverage of her overflowing two-day Madison Avenue funeral (June 26 and 27, 1969) set the stage for the history-making riot at a Greenwich Village bar that very weekend. But, says Jeff Weinstein in my favorite new magazine, Obit, that myth isn’t true.
