NBC News
12 June 2019
When it comes to Stonewall,
the myths are as famous as the riots
No, Judy Garland's death
didn't cause the historic 1969 uprising, widely credited with igniting the modern-day
LGBTQ rights movement.
Movie star and gay icon Judy Garland’s funeral was
held June 27, 1969, in Manhattan’s wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood. Just
hours after the “Wizard of Oz” luminary was laid to rest [...] the historic Stonewall uprising erupted just
four miles south in the city’s bohemian West Village. For decades, the two
incidents have been tied together, treated more like cause and effect than
coincidence. “The combination of a full moon and Judy Garland’s funeral was too
much for them,” Walter Troy Spencer wrote in the opening line of his Village
Voice column on July 10, 1969. […]
Time
21 June 2019
Some People Think Stonewall
Was Triggered by Judy Garland’s Funeral. Here’s Why Many Experts Disagree
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The Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA]
24 June 2019
Smiley: Legend of the flying
outhouse
Alex Crochet, of Abbeville, joins our outhouse
discussion with what might be a “rural legend,” but is still a good story: […] “In
early 1940 a tornado hit Pierre Part. The story goes that a guy named Clabert
was using the outhouse during the storm, near his home on T-Bayou (near the Catholic
church). It seems the storm picked up the outhouse, with him in it, pitching it
into the swamp. During the flight, he said, he saw the top of cypress trees
through the hole, and knew he was in trouble. Supposedly, he only sustained a
broken limb from the subsequent crash.”
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Tempo [Philippines]
13 July 2016
Drive must continue but
ensure vs abuses
THERE is an apocryphal story making the rounds, that
drug suspects arrested by the police ask that they be handcuffed with their
hands behind their backs instead of in front. This way they cannot be accused
later of trying to grab a policeman’s gun and suffering fatal consequences. […]
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