What suburban white families though of gays in the 60s

Early on, few hippie women understood feminism, but after they found themselves discarded, they began to see their own exploitation, especially if they had to raise children alone. The love generation had a lot of children. Does the 21 st century American acceptance of gay marriage have its roots in the hippie legacy?

How Morocco became a haven for gay Westerners in the 1950s

He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the kind of guy who wears a work shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. It was either that or watch a movie by myself. Only a few of the names of the gay men in this article are real.

A Theory on the Rise and Fall of the Suburban Nuclear Family Ideal

And they started to laugh because they anticipated that this was something that I would do. So no admonishment, no rebukes, no lectures. They just accepted it. Into the process of having all of the conversations, she did not want to go with anything unclear and I did not want to let her go with anything unclear.

UW historian William Rorabaugh explores ’60s counterculture in ‘American Hippies’

It was brought down by the people who had bought into the ideal and had lived it for themselves. For women trapped in a house alone during the day and forced to be subservient to her husband, and for men spending most of their time at work and having only their wife as a support network at home, problems like alcoholism, drug addiction, chronic infidelity, nervous breakdowns, and emotional repression reared their heads before the Pill and the sexual revolution came knocking on the door.