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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?

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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Scott on February 14, 2007, 10:06:26 am ---Life was great for me...three squares a day, slept as much as I wanted to, went to the bathroom whenever I wanted...could throw up on anyone without getting hit...course I was 2.

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Lucky you. If I'd thrown up on anyone at age 2, I'd have gotten spanked.

I did get spanked once when I had an "accident" because my mother didn't get back inside from hanging up the laundry in time to help me use the potty chair. Talk about injustice!  :laugh:

Front-Ranger:
How do you guys remember back to age 2??

Gay awareness started to happen with "glam rock" in the late 1970s. It was fashionable for men to wear makeup and be bisexual...if you were a rock star anyway!! That was when David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust.

There were lots of gays and bis in the crowd I used to hang with in the 1970s. But it was a crowd of actors, artists, musicians, theater people, and waitpersons (mostly the latter LOL).

I recently read John Schlesinger's reminiscences as an openly gay movie director. His movie, the X-rated Midnight Cowboy, won Best Picture in 1968. Some of the gay parts of the movie were excised or toned down but other parts were preserved.

Kd5000:
I always think of the early 1960's as being a continuation of the 1950's. JFK's assassination put an end to that time period and the 1960's really began in earnest.  However, even in 1963,  I gather there were rumblings of upcoming social upheaval as integration was front and center.   1963 is before my time and I'm glad I wasn't around for "Camelot" so to speak.

HerrKaiser:

--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on February 14, 2007, 12:08:34 pm ---Not only was the "gay stuff" never mentioned back then, neither was the "straight stuff" in terms of all their sexual conquests, the groupies, the drugs, the all night sex orgies with scores of women. All these things occured. to a somewhate lesser extent, the same was true, apparently, with President Kennedy. But, nothing of substance was ever publicized.

There were no National Enquirer's back then and the mainstream media simply did not delve into those parts of celebrity life or lives of the average people. Such human behavior was considered by the conventional wisdom folks to be on the 'dark side' of activity and was left pretty much untouched. That was an era of Father Knows Best, Donna Reed, Andy Griffith, and My Three Sons. Gay subjects were not "outed" but everything else was pretty much off limits as well.

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in addition, even the word "gay" was not used by mainstream to refer to homosexuals. It existed within the clandestine world of the era, but the vast amount of population did not used this term. 'gay' at that time still meant happy. Men who were bachelors and believed to be homosexual were often referred to as "he's funny" or "he's different". Gay broadened to general use much later.

Katie77:
I remember going to the movies to see Midnight Cowboy the day after it won the Academy Award, and because I was familiar with homosexuality, I was aware of the theme that was hidden in the movie, but I'm sure a lot of people didnt back then.

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