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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
ZouBEini:
Hi Katherine, I suppose it depends on the people and the communities involved. I think it's great that your aunt and Dorothy had such a nice experience!
I love your blue state comment BTW! It made me chuckle.
~Larz
Katie77:
What a great story about two wonderful women, intelligent enough to make for themselves the life that they chose to live.
I have been aquainted, a few times with a household where two women lived together, and most discusssions i have heard about them, is, are they or arent they....never quite sure, and really none of our bloody business anyway.
As ive written in a thread here before, my father was gay in the 50's and 60's...well there wasnt such a word as gay then...it was homosexual.....when it was illegal to be so, here in Australia.....and his partner changed his name by deed poll to my dads name, and they lived as brothers....their neigbours and other straight friends knew them for years and years as brothers, and never thought anything strange with them living together...
Kajunite:
This memories thread is bringing back some interesting memories for me. I am 61 and went to a small school in rural Louisiana and I was not accepted by my classmates. I had not dealt with my sexuality but I knew I was gay and I separated myself from those around me, and the others sensed that and I was somewhat of an outcast. I still don't go to class reunions much to the chagrine of many of my classmates.
The times were hard financially for most rural types. But the 60's was the beginning of an awareness of and for the common person. The news was not analyzed and discussed before then. The Vietnam war (especially after I came back from Vietnam) brought out the protests. This was a generation of rebellion and regeneration. We had Vietnam war protesters; civil rights protests; the heavy drug culture (i.e. LSD); assassignations; the Cuban missile crisis and so forth, but we never got around to the gay awareness issue. And then the 80's AIDS crisis came crushing down on the gay awareness. This devasted the gay awareness issue. Now in all fairness, gay awareness for the gay person was enhanced. AIDS brought about an awareness in the gay community, but that awareness was set back horribly in mainline America.
It is interesting, but gay awareness is moving forward at an amazing pace nowadays, and this movie plays a large role in that awareness. I think that I am releasing a lot of anxiety and repression because of this board. Like Ennis there was an internal lynch mob that may be thinning out a bit. That could be from old age though. But it is good to get rid of the little suckers!
The differences between that time and now are numerous and I don't care to remember all of that time. That time is to be taken in small doses.
I do think of then when I am being grateful for open discussions like this. Is this an ole' Granny's rheumitize med'cin'?
Front-Ranger:
Go for it, Kaz, get out those mental kinks!
Kajunite:
Yeah! Them pesky little critters sure got old!
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