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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: injest on February 24, 2007, 08:56:30 pm ---what do you mean Tommy??
tell us about YOUR 60s...
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Yes tommy we are interested.. do tell
Tommydreamer:
--- Quote from: injest on February 24, 2007, 08:56:30 pm ---what do you mean Tommy??
tell us about YOUR 60s...
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The early sixties were full of hope. The country was happy! People had good healthy fun and life was less hectic. The music was more romantic than the foul mouthed garbage that some call "art". Our country was strong, but still had a healthy innocence. The country produced "things" not services and lawyers. Doctors made house calls. Ambition, not greed and deceit was the great rewarder. Overpopulation was not an issue. Nature abounded.
My sixties was a time where I grew up to a new brand of rock and roll; the sound of motown, daytime baseball games; burgeoning football leagues; SCHOOL TRIPS TO A FACTORY IN A MAJOR CITY!; a parent at home. Playing for long hours after school OUTDOORS, not on a couch. Not having to fear about being outdoors. Coming of age. First girlfriend! First concert! First for almost everything!
Brokeback_Dev:
very cool tommy
Tommydreamer:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on February 24, 2007, 09:32:43 pm ---very cool tommy
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Thanks,
I will chat with you folks tomorrow.
Sheriff Roland:
A number a posts ago, I said I'd try an dig up the LIFE magazine's 1965 issue that dealt with 'Homosexuals in America today'. Here's the openin couple a paragraphs of this multiple article, multiple page view of gays, as portrayed by a very popular magazine of the times.
A secret world grows open and bolder. Society is forced to look at it - and try to understand it
These brawny young men in their leather caps, shirts, jackets and pants are practicing homosexuals, men who turn to other men for affection and sexual satisfaction. They are part of what they call the "gay world," which is actually a sad and often sordid world. On these pages, LIFE reports on homosexuality in America, on it's locale and habits (pp. 66-74) and sums up (pp. 76-80) what science knows and seeks to know about it.
Homosexuality shears across the spectrum of American life - the professions, the arts, business and labor. It always has. But today, especially in big cities, homosexuals are discarding their furtive ways and openly admitting, even flaunting their deviations. Homosexuals have their own drinking places, their special assignation streets, even their own organizations. And for every obvious homosexual, there are probably nine nearly impossible to detect. This social disorder, which society tries to suppress, has forced itself into the public eye because it does present a problem - and parents especially are concerned. The myth and misconception with which homosexuality has so long been clothed must be cleared away, not to condone it but to cope with it.
If interest there is, I will continue ta reprint, (I'm a slow typer) in the next few(?) days, the articles that reveal quit a lot about the times, and their perception of gays in the mid 60's. (sorry if there are typos in the article - I do try ...)
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