How Stonewall changed history

Plus: Political debates and 'Hamlet' |

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine June 27, 2019 By Lily Rothman It was 50 years ago, in the wee hours of June 28, 1969, that a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a New York City gay bar, prompted the response that is now seen by many as the catalyst for the modern era of LGBTQ activism. To mark that half-century of change, we took a look at what it was like to do that activism work before Stonewall, whether Judy Garland had anything to do with it, how the words we use to describe Stonewall have changed—and more. Here's more of the history that made news this week: HISTORY ON TIME.COM The Most Important Presidential Debates in American History From Kennedy-Nixon to Bush-Gore Lessons of One of the Most Crowded Primary Fields in History What the 2020 Democrats can learn The Internet Hasn't Really Changed How Being Famous Works 'The history and theory of celebrity teach us that we get the celebrities we deserve,' writes historian Sharon Marcus How TIME Covered a Medal-of-Honor Moment Former Army staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia became the first living Iraq War veteran to receive the Medal of Honor, 15 years after his story appeared on the cover of TIME Detaining Children at Military Bases Has Been Done Before Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. This isn't the first time the U.S. has housed kids at a military base FROM THE TIME VAULT This Week in 1948: A New Hamlet “There is also a strong suggestion, in this film Hamlet, that the movies have more than an enlarged medium to give to Shakespeare. A young (19) actress named Jean Simmons, who plays Ophelia, is a product of the movie studios exclusively. Yet she holds her own among some highly skilled Shakespeareans. More to the point, she gives the film a vernal freshness and a clear humanity which play like orchard breezes through all of Shakespeare's best writing, but which are rarely projected by veteran Shakespearean actors.” (June 28, 1948) Read the full story Today in 1955: Dag Hammarskjold “To open the conference this week, the U.N. called on the President of the U.S. In the chair it placed The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant.” (June 27, 1955) Read the full story This Week in 1939: Sigmund Freud “For 50 of his 83 years Sigmund Freud has insisted on talking seriously about subjects that other people did not want to discuss. When he began lecturing on the sexual basis of neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds at the root of love, malice at the heart of tenderness, incest in filial affections, guilt in generosity and the repressed hatred of one's father as a normal human inheritance.’" (June 26, 1939) Read the full story HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WEB A Wild Time At The Guardian, Charles Bramesco marks the 50th anniversary of the movie The Wild Bunch with a look at what the movie still has to teach audiences today. El Torero As Pride Month comes to an end, Corey Kilgannon at the New York Times presents a look at the surprising story of Sidney Franklin, the “gay Jewish matador from Brooklyn” who became a bullfighting star in the mid-20th century. For a Song The new movie Yesterday imagines a fictional songwriter achieving fame thanks to songs by the Beatles, so Lane Brown at Slate talks to a British singer who had a similar experience in real life. On Both Sides Political scientist Sam Rosenfeld, for the Washington Post, places modern calls for bipartisan civility in the troubling context of the Jim Crow-era Congress. Something Strange Decades after two men said they were abducted by aliens in Pascagoula, Miss., the city is acknowledging the event with a historical marker. Here's more from the Associated Press. To Unsubscribe Unsubscribe here if you do not want to receive this newsletter. Update Email Click here to update your email address. Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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