Judy Garland remains

Judy Garland remains

EDITORIAL.- Today, the day we just learned that equal marriage has been approved in the 50 States of the United States, we want to pay tribute to who without a doubt has been a gay icon par excellence and that had little to do with the origin of the celebrations of the Pride, Judy Garland.

We celebrate the Pride Day and we know little about the events that gave rise to this event. This is not the place to make a history treatise, but remember that when the police entered the premises of Stonewall to make the umpteenth raid, to beat, chase and arrest those behind closed doors trying to live their lives on the sidelines, many of them were crying Judy Garland.
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That 27 of June of 1969 is calculated that some 20.000 people attended the funeral of the actress, of the child prodigy that touched the hearts of so many people who felt lonely, to the point that the gays began to recognize each other with a euphemism: "friend of Dorothy". From the Dorothy who danced and sang with the different ones, with the tin man, with the scarecrow, with the cowardly lion who was so quickly labeled a homosexual by brainy psychiatrists who mocked the devotion of homosexuals for the film "El Wizard of Oz".
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There have been many attempts to explain the link between Judy Garland and the beginning of what would be the movement to fight for the liberation of gays and lesbians. Some issues are objective, such as the influence of a homosexual father or the bisexuality of her husband. There has even been talk of identifying a persecuted and stigmatized group with someone who also did not have an easy life despite his fame. In the collective imagination, Dorothy's journey from a black and white Kansas, from an oppressive and dogmatic environment to Oz, reflects the flight of thousands of members of the LGTBI collective to a better world, a universe of colors where the rainbow It shines on different characters but they love each other and live in freedom.

For all this, the early morning 28 June 1969 in the Stonewall bar while those who had attended the funeral drank and cried, a bad omen floated in the air. In the film "Stonewall" by Nigel FinchWhen the police enters the assault and orders the silencing of the record that sounds on the jukebox, someone refuses to obey and answers with a phrase: "Judy stays". The voice of Judy Garland was floating in the premises and in the consciences of generations.

On a day so full of happiness for so many people as today, let us not forget to honor the memory of those who have gone before us.

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