Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2021

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie

1967: The Counterculture Year That Changed the World | Summer of Love | Timeline

In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of music and popular culture arrived in the UK and USA.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Coming Out in the 1960s


Four young activists interview gay, lesbian and trans-gender elders who explore how the perfect storm of 1960s activism -- the anti-war, civil rights, and the women's movements -- inspired them to fight for their personal freedoms. These were the years that led up to the Stonewall Riots in 1969. The elders explain what the underground LGBT community looked like pre-Stonewall, and how their treatment created a resentment that boiled over and ultimately gave way to the national modern LGBT movement.